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greetings my name is Rebecca Lee McCarthy,
and today I am going to demonstrate how to navigate your classroom
in Canvas. But before we begin I what remind you to always feel free
to pause this video and to find what you are looking for,
and then when you are ready, to go ahead and start the video again
and follow along. This video will cover the following
elements in Canvas, the learning management system: the Home tab,
the syllabus, grades,
outcomes, and a message about the Inbox (and how it works more like a chat client).
First, let's go to our classroom and we look at our home tap.
Here we are in our home tap.
You can find all the major links for the class over to left hand side,
starting with the Home tab. The Home tab is made up with what's called
"course modules." This is terminology that is used by the Canvas system, and it
Basically means "units of work." In the Home tab
you will find all the modules or unit for our course,
beginning with "start here" module. This is your general information that will help you better
important for
succeed in this class. (You will also find) the weekly work modules (for the)
course. You have to scroll all the way down to see all the modules in this
class.
(Here you will find Each Week's work) in Each week's module,
you will find information that you need to complete that week's work.
For example, (you might find) a to do list, discussion board assignments,
and other various assignments that may be required (in) your class.
Next to each listed item in the module,
you will find a due date and a point value
attached to that item. For example, under the
week two, we have (an assignment due) on January 15,
and (you can earn up to) 20 points for this particular assignment.
This lets you know the day and when the items are due,
and also how much an assignment might be worth; however,
keep in mind that your instructor may require you to turn in your assignment
on Thursday,
June 28th, *at noon.* The due dates found here
would not reflect the time element, in this case noon,
that the assignment is due, so don't forget to check the assignment itself,
and your calendar for specifics about when and at what time
an assignment might be due. Take a minute
and pause this video, and become familiar with your home tap.
Go ahead, click into many the links and explore a little bit.
When you are ready, unpause the video and we will move on with this
review. Don't worry I'll wait for you! (Pause) Welcome back!
Are you ready to go on? Terrific, let's go ahead and look at the syllabus
tab, (which) can be found on the left hand side (of your browser). Go ahead and click that now.
On this page you should find a couple of different resources.
First, you can read the entire syllabus by scrolling down the top half of the
page.
Here we go: course information,
office hours, tools and the items you need for the course,
and so on and so forth. However
you can also download the entire syllabus in PDF form
by clicking on the blue link, up here. Also
if you scroll down the whole page itself, you will notice
a list of assignments, when they are due in this class,
and all of this is found in the syllabus proper.
To the right hand side of the page,
you will see how the assignments are weighted. I have different assignment
categories in my classes,
for example (the) discussion post category, or (the) quiz category,
each category is weighted to determine
the overall grade in this class. This graph gives you specifics on how
each assignment category is weighted in order to determine
your final grade in this case. We have quizzes that are 25 percent of your
overall grade,
chapter discussions (which are) forty percent of your overall grade,
apply knowledge activities, 35 percent of the overall grade,
and this makes for a total a hundred percent.
Take a few minutes, pause this video and explore the syllabus
page. Go ahead and click on the links to see where they lead,
when you are done exploring, come back to this video,
hit play, and we will continue our tour again.
Don't worry, again I'll wait for you :).
Are you done exploring the syllabus page? Excellent!
Let's go ahead and go on to the Grade (area) now. The grade tab can be found on the left
hand side of you're
browser; go ahead and click on that now.
Under the grades tab, you will find a graph were all the assignments are due
in this course, their due dates, the due time,
the score that you have received, the score that was possible,
and any particular details, for example
if I left you a message or comment on a particular assignment.
This page will let you know what assignments have been graded,
what assignments are still outstanding, and how you've done overall
on all of your assignments.
Now, do me a favor, scroll all the way down to the bottom of this page
until you get to the shaded area. Don't worry,
I wait for you. Do you see the shaded area at the bottom of this page?
Here is where you will find the weighted categories, for example discussions,
quizzes, and activities, these are the same weighted categories that I just
discussed when I gave you
an overview about the syllabus tab. This will let you know how you are doing
overall in this class, through the weighted categories,
and indeed how your final grade is actually calculated.
So this section will become very important!
Again, I want you to take a few minutes to explored the grade
area of this course. Go ahead,
click on the different links, but pause this video first
and I'll wait for you. When you are ready, we will continue on
our tour.
Hi and welcome back. Are you done exploring the grades (area)?
That's terrific. Then let's look at the course outcomes.
Course outcomes can be found on the left hand side (of your browser) at the link (area).
This area explains the different course learning objectives in the class.
The student learning objects that this course is
going to cover. Go ahead and click on the student learning objectives
or what is often referred to as "SLOs."
Here we are under the student learning objectives. To the right
at the SLOs show fine categories: communication,
critical thinking and problem solving, human relations,
information literacy, personal responsibility,
and technology. Go ahead and click on these links. Once you click on them,
it'll give you more detailed information about what is being looked for
under those particular categories. The same will occur
under course objectives: We wanna learn about basic communication theory,
group communication, interpersonal communication,
listening behaviors, and so on and so forth.
The learning and course objectives for this class are extremely important
because those are
the goals, what we hope to accomplish by the time we are finished with this class.
Take a minute and please explore the learning outcomes.
Just a word of warning, you will be able to see the learning outcomes a little
bit better
in Firefox then you will in Chrome or
Internet Explorer. Indeed Internet Explorer is not in very good
explore for the Canvas learning system.
I find that Firefox works the best overall.
So, just to give you a little hint. Go ahead and explore
and I will wait for you (pause this video if you are going to explore).
Okay are you ready to go on? Overall this (video) has given you the most important
elements in the class, but there are a few other things to keep in mind.
The Inbox,
which can be found on the upper right hand corner, is a very important
and you'll be using it a great deal throughout the class; however,
the Inbox functions more as a "chat client,"
rather than in email client. Yes we send messages a lot like
email through the Inbox; however,
the messages compound on each other and they
act as a string of messages rather than individual
emails. It is important to know this because you often have to scroll through
all of your messages
in order to have a better idea of what is being said to you.
Also, it is interesting to know that you can sort your messages
through inbox: (for example) unread items. starred items,
Sent items, archive items and also
discussion replies. This is a very helpful (resource),
a helpful way to go through your messages, especially if you get a great deal
and messages sent from your instructors and,
of course, you're classmates. I hope this tutorial was
ultimately helpful to you. If you would like more
indepth information about how to use the canvas envbiroment, make sure to take
the canvas student orentiation, which is linked
here (let me bring this down), in your general class information, and "start here" module.
If you have never use Canvas before, take the orientation!
You also find a different video on canvas
right here (in the start her area). If you have any questions though, about how to use this system,
or how to find things, remember you can always email me, or
your instructor. Thank you very much and I hope you found this tutorial helpful!
have a great day. Goodbye