Ohhhhh…. What an Adventure It’s Been!

Here we are. Oh, what a venture it's been. We are here to share our ten year journey. Got lots of great things to share with you lessons learned and things that we have, worked around. There was a QR code on there to our presentation, and I'll have it up again at the end of our session. So here's what we're gonna cover today.

We're gonna, talk about where we are, where we are, who who's Howard County Public School System. What our system wide expectations are for our teachers and our student our courses that we've used to build communication and community, and some of the customized integrations that we've had with Canvas, and then hopefully have time for questions. And we know that we are between you and dinner, so we will be sure to make it entertaining and exciting for you all. So who are we? So my name is Julie Ray. I'm from I am the coordinator of instructional technology.

I'm Melissa I get. I'm the coordinator for Library Media. So I oversee the school library programs in all of our schools. My name is Jody Jankoski. I'm the resource teacher for Library Media.

My name is Carrie Trudin. I'm a resource teacher for instructional technology, and she's my boss, and she's a riot to work with. And I'm Audrey Neli. I'm the coordinator for learning management systems for the district. And we also have a few more team members down there.

They don't wanna She didn't wanna come up here. She's afraid of us. I don't know why. We're such good fun people. So, well, this is gonna show you.

So a little bit about our district, just where we are, how large we are. We are the we're right between Baltimore and Washington, DC. We are the smallest geographical county in our state, but we are densely populated. Our school system is just under sixty thousand students. We have we're opening our thirteenth high school this August.

And we have, twenty middle schools and forty two elementary schools. We have, just under five thousand classroom teachers. Alright. So we'll talk a little bit about how we have our Canvas environment just structured for our users. This has changed over time, but I think many of you, if you're k twelve, you organize subaccounts by schools.

All our elementary schools are nested within an elementary subaccount, within a middle sub account, and with a high school sub account, that allows us to customize some of those permissions. We'll show a screenshot in a second, but we have Canvas for elementary turned on in our elementary subaccount and our middle school subaccount, but not our high school subaccount. Oh, I don't know what this Forward. Okay. I've been out of the classroom for a while.

Alright. In addition to that subaccount structure for our schools and the student facing courses, we also have a number of different sub accounts that are, designed for staff resources and staff facing courses. So we have our continuing professional development courses, are housed in their own sub account. We have a subaccount for curriculum programs. And within that, I don't know.

There's like eight hundred courses in there, so it might be outdated. But That's where staff go, or that's where all the, the curriculum, resources for our staff for each course in our district for each, content area in our district is is held. And then we have, you know, other subaccounts for other various special programs. As we've grown with Canvas, like everybody wants stuff in Canvas. So we've found ways to make that work.

With roles and permissions, we've also added permissions customize permissions to the default, out of the out of the box permissions that come with your Canvas accounts. So, one role we have, for example, is we have a role for our community college partners. So our high school students participate in a dual enrollment program. Where they may attend courses on-site at the community college, but, we also have offerings where students take courses at our high schools from our high school teachers, with a, instructor from the Community College who kind of partners in. So we have a special role for those professors so they can view the course content, monitor it for, rigor and the, make sure those courses are meeting the expectations of the community college.

Particularly out of the pandemic, we were asked for more roles, one around our para educators when we were doing remote instruction. So we customized a role for those staff members so they could help modify teachers' courses, but they couldn't see student grades because they weren't allowed for those levels of permissions. And then over time, we've had, student led courses. So we have a student leader role, which gives the students a, like, teacher like permission where they can edit course content. But in Canvas, if you're familiar with the, the role structure in Canvas, it has observer, teacher, add part, participants custom, but, student, so student leader is actually I think we built it on the observer role, and somehow we managed to leverage the observer role to grant editing permissions, and that hides some of the other features that are enabled in the Canvas interface if you have the teacher role.

As I mentioned, we're using Canvasborough Elementary. So it's just a snapshot of what our dashboard looks like. We're using that across, k through eight. So this would be a middle school dashboard, and we've leveraged a school wide course as the homeroom course in the Canvas for elementary environments. So rather than using the traditional homeroom section that, is the model for elementary school, We have a seventh grade course or a sixth grade course.

All those students in that grade level are in that course, and that's flagged as the homeroom in the campus for elementary environment, and the moderators in that course can post school wide announcements to students in that grade level. And then our, classic canvas view would be the view that we're using for high school. We chose not to enable canvas for elementary interface for high school because of the dual enrollment program with our community college. We wanted to maintain the same look and feel of Canvas for our high school students because of their participation in some community college courses. Oh, we wanna share some system wide expectations that we had.

And through the ten years, it's been quite a journey. No, I'll just go from here. Here is our most recent ex canvas expectations that we have established. On the left side is for what we call secondary teachers, and on the right side is our expectations for elementary teachers. And I know you can't read that clearly But basically, it kinda lists very specifically for our teachers.

What are the things they have to do? What are the bare minimum things that they must do? To, to, to start off the school year. So a few things, just to lift up, we have a course homepage. We wanna assistant course homepage for every teacher so that when teacher students get there, they can see, okay. Who do I have? What class is this? What are the things I'm gonna need? Etcetera. We expect our teachers to use announcements for communications with, the the student sections, we expect them to use the cam box to send individual or small group communications.

This was definitely something that we really have to ramp up with our teachers when we were in year one. It wasn't very consistent. And so there was a lot of people using things like the, Remind me. Remind me app, the SIS synergy. There was, there was, communication coming from all different directions.

We were really trying to streamline this and be able to better be consistent with where this communication is coming from. We expect our teachers to have modules. We expect them to create and post student facing content. We recommend a course structure for them. Perhaps they wanna do it by units.

Perhaps they wanna do it by weeks. Perhaps they wanna do it by, quarter etcetera. So we really want some type of organizational structure for them when they're building in modules. And we also wanna sure that when they have details in assignment, that they have details in assignments. So when we first rolled it out, teachers were putting things like read page twenty six.

Nobody knew what Where's page twenty six? What are you reading? What are you doing? So we've really added more specific detailed to our expectations. For example, we say share all assignments in advance of due dates. So that was the other challenge we had is they were using it kind of as a way to put their grades in. Right? And so they didn't really put anything into assignments until it was time to grade, which was two weeks later or something like that. And so it really wasn't helpful.

The whole concept of the LMS wasn't very helpful for our teachers So we really had to lay out for them. Hey, write your assignments in there, put in advance of the due dates, and they should have clear identifiable title and description. So that then students and parents could know, okay, what is this specific assignment? We expect them to have some calendar dates on there, so share class specific dates, During the pandemic, we actually had them put in the class codes, the meet codes that they were using so that they could get to the right places We expect them to have a syllabus, and then the grade book piece was the most mandatory part, was that they need to maintain the grade book throughout course of the year, and they should be, entered regularly in compliance with our pol policy. So that was something that we really needed to work with our teachers on. Because in our policy, they have the ability to have, I think, something like three weeks to post a grade.

And so we really needed to work with our teachers about, hey, timely feedback and making sure that you're providing students with that feedback and not waiting till the end of the quarter to submit ten grades at one time. Yes. Yes. So we provide them with a blueprint and we'll show that in a minute in one of our slides. So we provide them with a template of blueprint, and then they kinda go from there.

Yeah. In the amount of professional learning that we've been built up for our teachers to go through. We've been with Canvas for quite some time now. So the majority of our teachers have been through several years of professional learning around how Canvas. Which you may have gotten to, like Yep.

Well, we're we're gonna go to that next. Yeah. View structure and or subaccount structure. And what can you do for the Blue Springs in order to accommodate that structure and everything. We map our footprints in our SIS, to We map course ID to Woodprint ID.

Which as which subaccount did? Where live in the tree. Oh, our Blue Prince Primary elementary. So they live in the elementary subaccount, and they get distributed to the elementary school subaccounts. Use templates for middle initial? So the major thing that's different in elementary, I wanted to lift up, which really carries over to high school as well. I wanna lift up the Canvas skills checklist.

One of the biggest questions that we always got was Well, how do what do I how do I know what my kids have learned coming up to sixth grade or coming up to ninth grade? Ninth grade. So Carrie's gonna talk a little bit about that one. Yep. Oh, too. So, yeah, we wanna make sure that our students and our teachers are also growing with the use of canvas and building skills as they go through.

We do use canvas pre k to twelve. And I know some people are like, oh my god, kindergenders can't use they can. And they can they can use it. So what we did was we kind of wanted to create a list of kind of basic skills, what are the basic skills that we want our students to be able to achieve in canvas or be able to apply as they use canvas. And we map them out based on when those skills should be introduced, when those skills should be developed.

And when we say developed, that's where the teacher is really doing a lot of modeling. The student is practicing. And then when the students should be able to apply that skill, meaning they should be able to do it independently. And this lets the teachers know all so when they when these third graders are coming into their class or the sixth graders are coming to them, what skills and what, What expectations should those students be coming in with? What should they be coming in with them? And and also what should the teacher be starting to introduce to them? During that time. And we modeled this.

We aligned it with the iste standards, and you'll notice that some of the skills also have sub sub skills. That connect to that that are kind of taught during different times from K to, twelve. And I wanna say most of them I believe we have it linked in the slide so you can pull this up and view it yourself if you want. I think all the skills have to be applied by sixth grade because when they move into middle school, that's when they're really gonna be using Canvas, exclusively. Yeah.

So professional learning, we did a variety of different types of models for professional learning. We started off with our Canvas point of contact. You know, seventy two schools, it was really hard to manage all our teachers at one time. So we needed, to have some kind of on site person that we can kinda train and go through the train of trainer models. And then we also included training our school librarians, our tech teachers, our teacher development liaisons.

These are kind of like teachers that also have an added responsibility of professional learning specifically with the new teachers in in that school building. And then we also provided a variety of self paced modules. We have a variety of different courses we've provided also to them. We have canvas onboarding course for our new educator. So every year when they come in, they go to an onboarding course.

Just wanna lift up some of these so you see. So this is the onboarding course for elementary and middle school teachers. We give give them some of those details so that they know how do I set up my course? What are the grading in Canvas, what are the communication tools, etcetera. We have a a Canvas connection course where go in and find lots of different resources specifically. We have a Canvas orientation course.

This is a course that is available to all our families and our students. And so really gives them specifics as to what should I expect to see in my Canvas course? So parents would be able to understand what are those expectations that our teachers are supposed to be doing and what should my students should be engaged in. And so we've made videos for elementary orientation, middle school orientation, high school orientation, and we also then have specific guides. Now, some of these guides are directly pulled from our the Canvas, guides, but some of them are customized to what our Harris County specific needs are. So, we have those resources, and then we also have parent guides as well.

So I can click on just to kinda show you the elementary video, we also provide, translations. So as you saw in our demographics, our transcripts are translated for the various languages so that they can kind of follow along and be able to understand what those expectations are. So we have a homeroom view, subject view, etcetera. That one, I believe we have that set up as public. We have it also my the the help menu options and have a link to that orientation course under our help menu So over here in our help, it's the first link.

And it's the link right there. So it's a nice place to get everybody there where they need it. And then we have additional resources like the wired Wednesday. This really kicked in when we were in the pandemic, and we provided just a series of, different topics for our teachers so that they could better understand all the different, you know, Canvas overview. We use a technology integration matrix.

How do I use Canvas assignments in discussion? So each of these have a little video that we, we kind of recorded our Google Meet and then the teachers could come back and view them and better kind of review some of those things that we had shared with them during those presentations. So we did a lot of, asynchronous type learning, but we also, again, had a lot of in in person or face to face opportunities for them to ask questions as well. So now we're gonna talk a little bit about our innovative courses that we build, communication and community. So the first one I wanna talk about is what we call our master curriculum courses. So Audra mentioned earlier in one of the subaccounts is the curricular programs account.

That is really where we started our journey. We started our journey with really building master curriculum courses. Every single curriculum area had to produce course for every course that is being delivered. So we have one for algebra one. We have one for US history.

We have one for grade three mathematics. We had one for grade four social studies on and on. So when Audra mentioned, there's over eight hundred courses. There are tons of courses. And let me tell you, it was unbelievable what we had to do.

It I mean, we had to take curriculum folks. And if those of you who work with curriculum folks may know that They don't always know best design or or how to do something back ten years ago. It was HTML editing. Remember that? That was brutal. I mean, there was no way to copy a page.

There was no way to duplicate a page. It was really, really hard. And so we were pretty impressed with what we were able to kind of pull together for our teachers. And so this just gives you an example, and we provided a template for them. So every course, look similar.

So here's an example of a grade two math course, and they would there'll be a course overview. There's a scope in sequence. It provides our teachers everything they need to do to be able to teach that particular class. So here's module one. Here's what happens in two weeks.

Here's what happens in module two. These are the three weeks. So it really breaks it down, and then it links out to the specific standards and lessons that we have. And it we use the, understanding by design framework. So we have the, kind of structure and template for them for them to be able to, look at their lessons.

So that is the gray the master curriculum course. And then the other thing that we have is student facing courses. So student facing course content. We use some open education resources. We've created modules.

We've created courses for them. Here's an example of a comprehensive US history course that we've developed. This is one of our first, like, full course kind of a digital textbook for our students in this class. And, we bring it this was actually designed using a tool called city labs. If you're not familiar with city labs, you may wanna check it out.

I know that was one of the hot sessions. We were all trying to get into his sessions, past two days, and it's always been full. Can't get into those city labs sessions. But I think they're a vendor downstairs, so you should check them out. But this just gives you an example of, you know, the digital text that we built.

And then at the end of each unit, there's, you know, either some type of discussion or assignment for, the students to complete, and our teachers then could take the, either the course in its entirety for them to use, or they could just pull the modules if they like. So if I go to modules, you'll be able to see kind of how it's broken down. And then within each unit, what there there's pages, and there's quizzes, and there's discussion prompts. We've built all that for our teachers to use with, with their course. I'm talking about student community.

Student community. Okay. Student community. This was one of the ones that Aldra had mentioned about that student role. So this idea actually came up to us from a a a group of students in a particular high school that said we really want to use Canvas to, communicate our student life.

Okay? And so they came to our office and they say, how can we do this in Canvas? Because this is how we're streamlining every think this is the one tool that we know every student has. Not everybody has an Instagram account, not everybody has a Twitter account, not everybody has, you know, all various social media, So they really wanted to use, a canvas community for them to drive that kind of information. So we were really proud that they came to us and say, How can we do this? They were super excited. We went out and we trained them. And they're like, oh my gosh, now I know why my teacher's image looks like that, you know, or I can go and help my teacher with their banner on their page.

And so it's really exciting that they took that leadership role and started building the course. And so I can share you very quickly. This is one of our student communities, and so they use it to talk about their athletics. They talk about what's in their media center. Student clubs.

A lot of them use this to kind of build their clubs and say, here are all the different clubs you can join. You know? And they would be able to go in and find a little bit more information about it. And when do they need and all those pieces of information in there? The other thing to lift up is they also have not used it kind of like a master calendar. Some of them use the actual Canvas calendar in the community to be able to say soccer game is five o'clock or villanova, is universities coming to visit at two o'clock today. You know? So it's kind of their form of communication.

All about the student life, essentially, and led by students. And that's the key thing we really wanna lift up is this entire course is driven by students, managed by students. They do have an adult facilitator, obviously, But, really, they run the entire, course, which we were, we're super proud of. And some other, school and We also have school and curriculum communities. So, the school communities are basically, like, you think about your principal who sends out you know, those weekly newsletters with all of the updates, or, they wanna let you know who's out today and what subs are in the building, or whether there's a lot of change in the schedule.

So these, communities are really the place where that happens. It is basically just for staff in that school. They are enrolled in that automatically, I believe. No. Okay.

Ship in the school. There you go. So, but it's also a great way for an administrator to collect files So we all know at the beginning of every school year, we have to turn in sub plans. And you could have them submit their sub plans electronically as an assignment in the school community. And then that way, when that teacher's out, those administrators have access to those sub plans no matter what, no matter what the situation is.

It also is where they handle their school wide calendar. Like Julie said with the student ones, some schools are using the internal canvas calendar and others are using an embedded Google calendar. And it's also where they have their staff handbook and any professional learning that is happening at the school level. Is housed and pushed out through that school community. And then we also have curriculum communities, which is where all of that master curriculum lives, that mathematics example that Julie showed you is an example of one of those master curriculum courses.

It also is where we have that content specific professional learning. So if I'm doing professional learning specifically on, Adobe Express, I'm gonna have that professional learning directly in my curriculum course for the staff in our curriculum area. It's also where we typically use that content, that calendar to share professional learning within our curriculum, as well as announcements from curriculum leaders of upcoming events or, professional learning that they can sign up for or reminders about curriculum or grading or anything and everything in between. We share announcements to our teachers. So we, as a curriculum leaders, aren't with one building.

So the English coordinator can share out an announcement to all the English teachers via that curriculum course. It's also where our teachers can start and respond to discussions among each other. So it's how they communicate with each other without having to use email. Another different way we've used a course is a student resource course. So this is, the way we got school librarians to be able to utilize canvas and to be able to keep practicing and building their skills so they can help their teachers.

So we built a student resource course And we, imported all students in that school. These exist in middle schools and high schools because in our elementary schools, our librarians are on a fixed schedule, so they already had a course for each of the great levels that they were teaching. Our middle and high school librarians weren't teaching any particular course, so they didn't have a campus course to play around with or to learn or be able to practice. There also wasn't a way to communicate with all students at one time. So all the students are enrolled in the student resource course.

They're sectioned out by grade level. So, a life school librarian can post an announcement. Hey, sixth graders. We're having a book talk from the school librarian come down during lunch. It's also where school librarians can build and optional student facing materials.

So if they're working on, an inquiry project, if they're working on some building some NHD materials, they can build them in that Canvas course where can to, to be able to view and interact with, or they can build in that and then be able to copy content over to the course where their teacher is. So if they're working with one particular grade social studies teacher that can put it there. But it this student resource course gives the school librarian the opportunity to be present in the Canvas world and, and be able to communicate with students and be able to help teachers see what ways they can utilize Canvas. Alright. I got it.

Thanks. So another way that we use Canvas courses are these family and community resources pages. And this lets parents be able to see what their child's learning in school, how they might be able to help them at home, things like that. So, you know, our as we've been saying, our curriculum is pretty driven by those curriculum courses at the district. Level.

And so this is kind of the parent facing version of that where, curriculum leaders can share what's going on. The page you see here is a first grade page, but we have them across all grade levels. In elementary. Sorry. And then yep.

So our staff communities, this is kind of the the district wide version of those school based communities. The school based canvas communities really deal with all the logistics and announcements and information just at one school. And these communities are for any kind of information that needs to be shared to all staff members district So, you know, financial information, you know, payroll, worked at, yeah, purchasing information for staff members who have cards for that. Technology resources so that teachers can troubleshoot their own technology including, but not limited to canvas. It has things about all kinds of technology.

Part here is much more later, like, you know, five years later, the people are like, wait, what's this canvas thing I'm hearing about? And How might I be able to use it to help train people on how to use a P card or how to, how to get people on safety, safety videos and those kinds of So that this kind of evolved as people were learning more about Canvas and understanding the power of what Canvas can do. That one. Mhmm. So this sort of turns your campus instance into a help desk. Yes.

In the helper who asked you if canvas is supported as opposed to with how howard County Well, I mean, there's nothing that would stop them from opening a ticket from Canvas. We don't run into a lot of that going to Canvas. We have a pretty present internal help desk that, our staff members are, are very aware of. Yes. In the events they open a ticket with Canvas, that canva it's outside of their scope that gets bounced back to us, but I don't encounter a ton of that.

Yeah. Yeah. And I mentioned a lot of these communities. We've set up a landing page that, like an index page that lists all of these communities with a link to view the page. And a link for the self, the self enrollment link.

So staff can go and self enroll in the community, add it to their dashboard, subscribe to announcements. And so forth. So Another question about the staff you need. So we're in the process of migrating from school to campus and current our current instance, but a lot of our departments have their own forces and we mass enroll all of our staff members into them. So, like, their a, driver's force, and there's a, you know, a sports or a tech talk force and all that other good stuff.

So it looks like you have it all in one place with multiple models. So is that one? No. They're all separate horses. They're all separate courses. Yeah.

I was just wondering how you manage No. No. Yeah. So Julie is showing the index page right now. So all those types of courses you were just mentioning, we have similar ones.

They are all completely separate. And they yeah. Yeah. And they happen to have many modules. So from this page, a staff member can say, okay.

I need to know more about grants origination. So I'm gonna look at that course or I'm gonna subscribe to that course and and add it to self enroll in So that we There are some courses communities that, internally are still managed. The rosters are managed by the, the leadership of those communities, like our school counseling community, for example, that's not set up for self enrollment. The counseling office adds new counselors when they're hired. But many of them are set up for for self enrollment.

Yes. In our JavaScript, do you have to have a teacher enrollment to see that button? Which So when parents are student login, they don't see that. So we automatically enroll everybody into technology resources they're enrolled with a participation role, and there is a link in that course as well. Yeah. Well, I can comment on the staff communities.

So the school staff communities, they typically I typically see that the principal sends out a, like, a Sunday email or a Monday morning email. So kinda like a, like, a once a week thing. And then maybe there's some updates throughout, and that goes through the Canvas notification system to staff email, but it's a, a lot of that is managed. They manage that through announcements rather than, you know, sending an an email to their, to their school group. And one of the things we noticed when we started teaching them about use announcements for your newsletters and things like that is that it really helped them with you know, teachers who delete emails by mistake.

Like, oh, I didn't see that from so and so. And I didn't see that. Now we say, Hey, everything's archived here. So announcements, even though they come to you in an email. You can read it in your email still.

You don't have to go to Canvasia. You can still then always find something back here whenever you get it. That was one of the things we had to really do to train them so that they could remember, oh, okay. I know I can always find everything back here. We we also try to model, like, when someone asks a quest asks a question that has already been announced.

Hey, yes. Thank you for asking that question. We posted about it in this announcement and we'll link that announcement so they can get back. So in case they have, you know, they're asking one question, but maybe there's a follow-up question that they didn't know. And I just answered one, I'll link back to that post so they can an they can read full post, and they also know that, you know, they I remember now I know they didn't read the announcement.

I'm just kidding. Never. There's there's never a chance snark in the follow-up saying read the announcement. So one thing we use widely are templates and blueprints that has really grown as those features were introduced by Canvas in the last, Well, I've been with the district for six years. So blueprints were new at some point in the last six years, and then templates came along a little bit later.

So Julie showed you already these master curriculum courses. We, as courses are added or, read redeveloped over the years. We get request they the coordinators want a new course shell. So my office has a process to request coursehell. So, you know, we have a template for curriculum courses.

We have a template for, the student facing courses Julie showed you. We, construct professional learning courses throughout the year, and have a template for that. So just kind of previews of some of those. Again, these are. All built using the city labs design plus tool.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. And there's color coding process for the different courses. So our curriculum courses use blue headers. The professional learning use the beige tan.

Cacky. Okay. And our soon facing courses at least the high school ones use, green. So blueprints and templates. So we use templates in middle school and high school.

If you're not familiar with that feature, it's a you create a course, you say, this is a template for everything in the subaccount whenever a new course is created, it's populated with a copy of everything that's in the template. For elementary, we have Well, it's gotten even more involved. But we initially began with blueprints for each ten area. So we had a math blueprint, science, social studies, etcetera. And within that, we previously preloaded different home pages So one of the things that we put on our elementary home pages is a what you will learn section.

So the math blueprint used to have a fifth grade page, a fourth grade page, that differentiated the what you will learn section. And as we've gotten more granular with some things, we are now, mapping blueprints for every grade level for every content area. So we now have six blueprints for math, k through five, and the same across all the other subject areas. The homepage. Yep.

Yep. So teachers receive the courses. Front page is already set up for them. They just go in and edit the about me section on the page and publish. They can really published their course, and they're good to go.

We also preload both the template course and the blueprint courses with modules. I think I have a screenshot of that. That's the secondary one. Oh, did it get lost in there? That one. Okay.

Sorry. So we preload the courses with, these modules that teachers can duplicate, the pages in or the assignments in. So One of those expectations, Julie talked about earlier in the presentation is that each module has a unit overview or a module overview, so there's a page in there that's, ready to go for teachers. There's a sample assignment page that has, like, a, you know, the description is in there as a model of what your assignment set up should look like not just read page twenty six. And teachers can duplicate those and then just, you know, modify the content that particular assignment or module.

Yeah. This has developed. So we started using blueprints when that feature was released by Canvas. So that was maybe five years ago, but it was a very generic blueprint. I think we maybe just had an elementary blueprint and a secondary blueprint.

And that was mainly just to push out course settings and, like, customize the navigation menu and, send out a home page. So that was how we began with Blueprints. And so, like I said, this year, where I now have to remap, like, fifty course ID numbers to all these elementary blueprints, which is more than we've ever done in the past. So it's it's grown over. It's like, which one am I gonna mess up? Ready to go, and all they're doing really is changing their name, add a picture, and they're pretty much ready to go.

So Okay. So we have some a lot of customizations between our SIS and Canvas. So, our SIS team built me a front, front end user interface to map course IDs to the blueprint societies, and then that society gets populated into the course CSV file. We send all those files directly to Canvas. We don't, we don't use the Canvas.

We have synergy, but we don't use the Canvas synergy integration because we've been with Canvas for too long. And we had already done all of these processes on our own before, Canvas developed that process. Yeah. Our our curriculum coordinators are responsible for building out the Yep. We designed them and and edited them to make so as a library media supervisor, so I and Jody worked together to make, like, the grade one library media course, and we populated it and edited it within the template, and then Aldrick takes it from there and pushes it out to all the library media specialists.

We said that they had to be consistent, that was one of the big things. It's like, teachers are like, I don't know. This when I'm elementary teacher, you're teaching five or six subjects. Right? Why does ELA look like this? Why does science look like this? I don't know where to find the math. So that was our buying is, like, we need to have assistency.

And we need to make our tea our students and our families' lives a lot easier. And so we really, we said this is a template you have to use. Please fill in these boxes only. Like, we gave them just very limited things that they so we gave them a template. So we get yep.

Correct. This is the only thing you need to change. Yep. Yeah. So our teachers get it.

They fill in about me before that. Curriculum coordinators get it, they fill out what you will learn. Yes. And then, I think our science and social studies offices have actually created some some actual content in there. We're not pushing out a ton of content through blueprints, but science and social studies have created four modules, one per each quarter.

With, like, an overview page and two or three assignments for the quarter. Uh-huh. Mhmm. So we this took us a long time to get this far. Yes.

Yep. We we gave them a page. We did create a template, right? It was in commons. But, yeah, so we had to teach them how to pull it from a commons, And then, you know, again, we we had to teach them HTML. I mean, it was really nutty.

It was really painful. I will say we didn't have a lot of buy in from elementary before COVID. Yeah. So that was a big push for elementary and some grading policies are changing that is also a continuing push. So we have five minutes.

So we wanna make sure we talk a little bit about integration. Four minutes. Goj Audra. Oh, okay. So, again, everyone wants stuff in canvas as they learn how canvas works and are more involved in canvas in different areas across our, our, school district.

So some of the integrations that we've built. We have, again, I mentioned earlier, have a dual enrollment program, but we have, it's called jump start. We have students who are taking courses at our high schools, with our high school teachers, there's some, like, overview from the community college in that. There's a process where students opt into the community college credits. And so we have a whole process through our SIS, where we create like a parallel parallel section with the students who are taking credit, and then there's the original section with all the students who are just all there anyway, and we grant access to the this parallel section to our HCC Air Community College partners.

Who used Canvas at HCC Outer Community College. A home and hospital has been another one that we've really, over the years, have done some Frankenstein things to try to make that access work. So, you know, our students still remain in their, like, homeschool teachers course, but they're assigned to a home and hospital teacher while they are receiving home and hospital services. So the issues we've run into are the home and hospital teacher needs access to the classroom teacher's course. They don't have that.

They get their own Canvas course. There's been some issues with that. So we settled on granting an admin role to our home and hospital teachers, which is like a content view only role, no editing. And that enables them to actually be able to use the import and copy to features. So they can go into the student's class, at their homeschool and copy a module into the own their own course that they're teaching from.

We use the product who knew it. It's a data dashboard. Oh, sorry. Excuse me. Okay.

Okay. So, a PowerSchool product called Unified Insights formerly who knew it. We import grades, from they import grades from Canvas, into the Hoonuit dashboard. So that gives a portal for admins, counselors, case managers to have, like, a dashboard where they can see all their students, or they can see their whole school. They can see their current campus grade.

There's some, like, bar charts where they can see, you know, a group of students who has ease, click on that and expand that and see who might need interventions. And we also use that process to bring our grades or that same database. We pull that grade into synergy at the end of the quarter to do grade reporting, because like I said, we were on board before Canvas developed a synergy integration. So we had to do some customizations. And so for our, at least for middle and high school, where we have standard ABC degree e grading scales, we're able to import that quarter grade from the Canvas grade book into synergy, teachers like Confirmets, finalize their report cards, add comments, and call it a day.

And we're done. But those are some LTI integrations. I'm gonna plug city labs, about downstairs. So great.