CANVAS ADMIN TIPS: October

Welcome to PCSD Monthly Canvas Tips 2022-2023!

Welcome to October, the season of pumpkin-spiced everything!

To view, September's tips click here.

Style Guide Requirements: See the helpful tips below
Tip #2 How to start with your Homeroom Course
Tip #3 Announcements ideas and how-to.

For in-school assistance contact your school's Canvas Support Specialist or Tina McCulloch, District Educational Technology Specialist - tinamc@provo.edu

Tip #1: Style Guides

The Canvas Style Guide clarifies basic expectations for teachers so that we may support students and their families in successfully navigating the Canvas learning management system.

---- PCSD Innovative Learning PD August 11, 2022

Click the Style Guide button below that matches the grades you are teaching. You may want to bookmark it for easy access. The style guides can also be found in the HELP menu of Canvas under the PCSD - Canvas Help Link.

Tip #2: Designate a Homeroom Course

The Canvas Homeroom creates an online classroom environment. Please read the Canvas Community Instructor Guide below or watch the video on how to designate a Homeroom Course. This is one of the style guide requirements for 4th-6th grades.

		How do I designate a subject as a homeroom course as an instructor?

		YouTube: C4E: Setting Course As Homeroom

Tip #3: Working with Announcements in Canvas for Elementary

Announcements deliver timely class information to both students and parents. A few suggestions are: the month's theme, birthdays, school schedule changes, field trips, picture days, and due dates for major projects.

How do I create a Homeroom announcement as an instructor?

WARNING: Canvas announcements only post for two weeks. One SOLUTION is to just copy/paste/delay the second posting of your initial announcement. To learn how to delay posting an announcement, read the Canvas Community Instructor Guide below:

How do I delay posting an announcement until a specific date in a course?

Tip #4: Digital Curriculum Single Sign On

"Can I add a link to the curriculum from my Canvas course(s) and if so how do I link the curricula into Canvas?" Watch the video below to create links to the digital curriculum platforms.

---- Creating Buttons to Digital Curriculum from Canvas

Use the ALREADY CREATED BUTTONS - click to access them here.

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