Canvas LMS & Canvas Studio
The Instructure learning platform is underpinned by the Canvas learning management system and is designed to deliver teaching, learning, and student success through an open, extensible, digital learning hub. Today, we'll be demonstrating the features of our learning management system, Canvas. The dashboard is the first screen a user sees when they log in to Canvas. It appears as a simple interface that's easy to use with links to access what you need quickly. Individual users can personalize the interface with their course cards and select personal notification settings. Students can access recent feedback and easily track their to do list right from the initial dashboard page.
Or they can switch to planner view to see upcoming course requirements. There, students can sync all important dates to an external calendar app. The navigation menu remains consistent throughout the user experience with one click access to courses, groups, page history, and much more. Within a course, the home page can be set to display recent announcements and provide quick links to content modules. Within the modules, teachers can scaffold content and assessment to meet individual learning needs.
Canvas pages enable you to add a variety of content such as video, files, text, and external content using Canvas's LTI integration. The mark as done button facilitates progression throughout a module, and institutions can also monitor progress via the results from an assessment or simply viewing a particular item. Selecting next navigates to the following content item in a module. Teachers can set up formative and as learning assessments in a video quiz and provide immediate feedback to students based on their results. Assessment discussions encourage student collaboration with peers and teachers alike.
When it comes to assessment, Canvas quizzes provides various interactive content and question types. Assignment submissions are seamless and enable students to leverage familiar tools such as rubrics, text annotation, and file uploads with submissions possible via their Google Drive or OneDrive. With our top rated mobile apps, Canvas has made it easy for students to engage on the go. They can sync their Canvas calendar to their preferred external calendar, access their content, and submit assessments directly within the app or a tool of their choice, such as Microsoft Word. Annotating documents and assessments is made easy with Canvas's inbuilt features.
An Apple Pencil or your finger can mark up documents on the go. Students can also record media, video, or audio from their device and use inbuilt voice to text capabilities. Notifications provide reminders on assessments and students can review and respond to past and present feedback without leaving the Canvas app. Teachers and assessors can leverage the dedicated teacher app to monitor and communicate with students in bulk. They can navigate to an assignment and message the students that haven't yet submitted.
Each of the students will receive the message in a BCC style of notification. Teachers can also access the speed grader tool from mobile to efficiently assess student submissions. Speed grader can also display similarity reports if plagiarism tools are integrated. Grading student work and providing feedback is seamless using the rubrics, annotation tools, and comment library. Feedback can take on many forms, including audio, video, and file uploads.
And this feedback is sent directly to the student. Teachers even have the ability to select student context cards to monitor progress from the palms of their hands. As grading is simplified, this minimizes double handling of results and saves time and energy, leaving more time to focus on what matters most, student learning. Within the web application, teachers can also access SpeedGrader and other associated tools. Submission history and prior feedback is all accessible on one page.
Teachers can access the same feedback options as demonstrated from the teacher app, including comment libraries, voice to text, video, and file uploads. The gradebook interface shown is a combined view of all assessments across the course. These columns are automatically populated, saving time and reducing the effort required to manage this process. Teachers can view at a glance the submission status of those within their class or section, seeing who is late, not submitted, or resubmitted with the easily identifiable colored cells. These results are automatically populated from the graded rubric and can be defined by a grading scheme relevant to your sector.
High distinction, complete incomplete, point score, a to e, or satisfactory, not satisfactory, shown typically in the vocational education space. The engaging module structure of canvas modules determined by teachers and designers provides a clean user experience and also supports the differentiation of learning. Mastery paths supports differentiation based on scores obtained in a diagnostic assessment. This learning path displayed to the student based on their results is set up by the teacher. Teachers have the ability to provide choice to the student or determine what they need to complete for each of the criteria.
Institutions can also leverage Canvas module completion criteria to control access to or the release of content using our prerequisites and requirements interface. The requirements can be set to view an item, submit an assignment, or score a certain point value. Assessments can take on many forms through quizzing, peer review, annotated assignments, or integrating third party tools directly in the assessment. Plagiarism tools can be easily integrated into the assessment of your choice and due date differentiation is made easy, allowing a user specific extension or a differentiated due date for a given cohort. Content creation is simplified with Canvas's intuitive, rich content editor.
You can leverage these toolbar links to access course and online files or images. There is an equation tool, an icon maker, and the ability to access over four fifty applications without having to leave Canvas. Accessibility is at the forefront with the inbuilt tools shown here. Canvas Studio turns one way passive video into inclusive participatory engagement. Studio provides a set of tools for creating and delivering interactive digital learning experiences, which give insights, captioning, and quiz overlay to improve the engagement and learning experiences for your students.
You can upload or record a video from your device, from YouTube or Vimeo, or record directly from your screen or webcam. Studio also allows you to curate multiple videos into collections for reuse within any Canvas course. Users can edit recorded media directly from within Studio and cut and trim various parts of the video without external editing tools. Course analytics allows a teacher to gain valuable insights in how students are progressing, accessing, and participating within the course materials. The interface supports ease of monitoring and allows impactful interventions to occur through the flexible messaging tool.
There is the ability to gauge effectiveness of content viewed and engaged with. Teachers can monitor participation trends, prompt or reward student participation, access student engagement trends, reports, and monitor online attendance based on the criteria set all within the interface. Canvas's robust content management strategies support your teaching and administration teams to create once and use multiple times. Select a strategy or a combination of strategies to increase your organizational effectiveness. For centralized management, Canvas blueprint supports a parent template with lockable content, which can be associated to one or more courses beneath.
Any updates completed at the parent can be synchronized to the associated courses in a few simple steps. For consistency and course design, our template functionality can be applied across your account. This will prevent users or designers starting out with a blank canvas and harness your preference for page design and or navigation look and feel. More than one template can be created based on your needs. Canvas Commons is our learning object repository providing access to global and institutionally specific content based on the parameters set by you.
Users can simply apply filters to quickly access their preference of content. All content can be viewed and reviewed prior to being imported into a course. Teachers and designers can also quickly share content within the interface without having to look through emails using this send to feature and copy to various courses the user may be enrolled in. Unlock more powerful features of Canvas and get in touch with one of our experts today for a custom tailored walkthrough.
Or they can switch to planner view to see upcoming course requirements. There, students can sync all important dates to an external calendar app. The navigation menu remains consistent throughout the user experience with one click access to courses, groups, page history, and much more. Within a course, the home page can be set to display recent announcements and provide quick links to content modules. Within the modules, teachers can scaffold content and assessment to meet individual learning needs.
Canvas pages enable you to add a variety of content such as video, files, text, and external content using Canvas's LTI integration. The mark as done button facilitates progression throughout a module, and institutions can also monitor progress via the results from an assessment or simply viewing a particular item. Selecting next navigates to the following content item in a module. Teachers can set up formative and as learning assessments in a video quiz and provide immediate feedback to students based on their results. Assessment discussions encourage student collaboration with peers and teachers alike.
When it comes to assessment, Canvas quizzes provides various interactive content and question types. Assignment submissions are seamless and enable students to leverage familiar tools such as rubrics, text annotation, and file uploads with submissions possible via their Google Drive or OneDrive. With our top rated mobile apps, Canvas has made it easy for students to engage on the go. They can sync their Canvas calendar to their preferred external calendar, access their content, and submit assessments directly within the app or a tool of their choice, such as Microsoft Word. Annotating documents and assessments is made easy with Canvas's inbuilt features.
An Apple Pencil or your finger can mark up documents on the go. Students can also record media, video, or audio from their device and use inbuilt voice to text capabilities. Notifications provide reminders on assessments and students can review and respond to past and present feedback without leaving the Canvas app. Teachers and assessors can leverage the dedicated teacher app to monitor and communicate with students in bulk. They can navigate to an assignment and message the students that haven't yet submitted.
Each of the students will receive the message in a BCC style of notification. Teachers can also access the speed grader tool from mobile to efficiently assess student submissions. Speed grader can also display similarity reports if plagiarism tools are integrated. Grading student work and providing feedback is seamless using the rubrics, annotation tools, and comment library. Feedback can take on many forms, including audio, video, and file uploads.
And this feedback is sent directly to the student. Teachers even have the ability to select student context cards to monitor progress from the palms of their hands. As grading is simplified, this minimizes double handling of results and saves time and energy, leaving more time to focus on what matters most, student learning. Within the web application, teachers can also access SpeedGrader and other associated tools. Submission history and prior feedback is all accessible on one page.
Teachers can access the same feedback options as demonstrated from the teacher app, including comment libraries, voice to text, video, and file uploads. The gradebook interface shown is a combined view of all assessments across the course. These columns are automatically populated, saving time and reducing the effort required to manage this process. Teachers can view at a glance the submission status of those within their class or section, seeing who is late, not submitted, or resubmitted with the easily identifiable colored cells. These results are automatically populated from the graded rubric and can be defined by a grading scheme relevant to your sector.
High distinction, complete incomplete, point score, a to e, or satisfactory, not satisfactory, shown typically in the vocational education space. The engaging module structure of canvas modules determined by teachers and designers provides a clean user experience and also supports the differentiation of learning. Mastery paths supports differentiation based on scores obtained in a diagnostic assessment. This learning path displayed to the student based on their results is set up by the teacher. Teachers have the ability to provide choice to the student or determine what they need to complete for each of the criteria.
Institutions can also leverage Canvas module completion criteria to control access to or the release of content using our prerequisites and requirements interface. The requirements can be set to view an item, submit an assignment, or score a certain point value. Assessments can take on many forms through quizzing, peer review, annotated assignments, or integrating third party tools directly in the assessment. Plagiarism tools can be easily integrated into the assessment of your choice and due date differentiation is made easy, allowing a user specific extension or a differentiated due date for a given cohort. Content creation is simplified with Canvas's intuitive, rich content editor.
You can leverage these toolbar links to access course and online files or images. There is an equation tool, an icon maker, and the ability to access over four fifty applications without having to leave Canvas. Accessibility is at the forefront with the inbuilt tools shown here. Canvas Studio turns one way passive video into inclusive participatory engagement. Studio provides a set of tools for creating and delivering interactive digital learning experiences, which give insights, captioning, and quiz overlay to improve the engagement and learning experiences for your students.
You can upload or record a video from your device, from YouTube or Vimeo, or record directly from your screen or webcam. Studio also allows you to curate multiple videos into collections for reuse within any Canvas course. Users can edit recorded media directly from within Studio and cut and trim various parts of the video without external editing tools. Course analytics allows a teacher to gain valuable insights in how students are progressing, accessing, and participating within the course materials. The interface supports ease of monitoring and allows impactful interventions to occur through the flexible messaging tool.
There is the ability to gauge effectiveness of content viewed and engaged with. Teachers can monitor participation trends, prompt or reward student participation, access student engagement trends, reports, and monitor online attendance based on the criteria set all within the interface. Canvas's robust content management strategies support your teaching and administration teams to create once and use multiple times. Select a strategy or a combination of strategies to increase your organizational effectiveness. For centralized management, Canvas blueprint supports a parent template with lockable content, which can be associated to one or more courses beneath.
Any updates completed at the parent can be synchronized to the associated courses in a few simple steps. For consistency and course design, our template functionality can be applied across your account. This will prevent users or designers starting out with a blank canvas and harness your preference for page design and or navigation look and feel. More than one template can be created based on your needs. Canvas Commons is our learning object repository providing access to global and institutionally specific content based on the parameters set by you.
Users can simply apply filters to quickly access their preference of content. All content can be viewed and reviewed prior to being imported into a course. Teachers and designers can also quickly share content within the interface without having to look through emails using this send to feature and copy to various courses the user may be enrolled in. Unlock more powerful features of Canvas and get in touch with one of our experts today for a custom tailored walkthrough.