John, Chapter 2
- The Course Setup Checklist (pages 34-35) is informative, but does not require you to do anything at this point.
- Read carefully Planning Your Course (pages 35-38) - From Syllabus to Screen. Especially if you have not had a lot of experience developing lesson plans, this section could be very helpful as you begin to build your course site.This is to direct you thinking, but will not require immediate use online.
- Specifics:
- You do not have to answer each question specifically, but your writing about your reading should cover how you considered these questions without copying one of the answers from the book in each instance.
- You may also express your answers to some of these questions with the beginnings of a syllabus, however, preparing the layout of the syllabus is the subject of another section in a later chapter.
- One can safely skip Importing Content from Another Course (pages 38-40). This part would pertain more to using Canvas with an Institutional Account.
- Working with assignments and content, including the rich text editor and embedding capabilities for tables and media are very important. Be sure to read and implement pages 41-55. This will require using your LMS capabilities online.
- Specifics:
- Create and edit an assignment using the Rich Content Editor. Be sure to pay attention to your formatting.
- Your assignment should embed some content, at least one of the following:
- Insert a table
- Insert a link
- Embed an Image
- Insert a math equation
- Record or upload a Media feature
- As a special challenge, see if you can do more than one insert or embed using a different type of insert or embedding than your first one.
- If you know how to read and use HTML tagging in a page, be sure to note the HTML capabilities on page 55 - otherwise, feel free to skip over it. (Learning HTML is an important skill, but not necessarily a basic skill for a teacher.)
- Setting tabs, adding content, and determining the grading type and submission type close out the basic assignment development, so carefully reading and working through pages 56-60 is important. This will require using your LMS capabilities online.
- Specifics:
- Set at least one tab for either Links, Files, or Images
- Go back to your assignment to which this/these tab(s) have been added and add some material specifically related to using the tab contents you have set.
- Set a grading type for the assignment.
- Set the submission type, using the drop-down menu.
- Group Assignments and Peer Reviews are useful in developing assignments, but in the interests of time, one may wish to save that work for later.
- Setting Assignment Availability and publishing an assignment are basic on pages 62-63. This will require using your LMS capabilities online.
- Specifics:
- Set assignment availability for your assignment
- Publish your assignment (but not the whole course)
- The rest of the chapter, pages 63-77, are about different types of assignments and some special handling of assignments. This is a long chapter, so one may consider these to be extra options to be done as time allows. The part on pages 67-73 may be of most interest in terms of how to set up a Quiz. If at all possible, it would be very nice if one could add this skill for making Quizzes to one capabilities with Canvas. Should one of the later chapters leave extra time, this might be something to come back to learn later, if there isn't time in this class period. This will require using your LMS capabilities online.
- Specifics:
- Make a Quiz, including the setttings for the quiz.
- Put questions in your quiz (at least 5)
- Optional: Make a Question Bank.