Synchronous Canvas Training Options
Canvas How-To Videos and PDF Guides: Spring 2023
Click here to view newly recorded short videos to help you with Canvas LMS, on the following topics:
-Finding your course on Canvas
-Adding your syllabus to a Canvas course
-Publishing a course & using “Student View”
-How to use Modules to organize the files, assignments, and other information for your course
-Changing the left-side navigation of your course
-Creating a “Home Page” / “Welcome Page” for your course
…and more!
Asynchronous Canvas Training Options
Please view the training options below for more information on how to deepen your knowledge about Canvas.
New to Me
A good place to start if this is your first time exploring the move to Canvas for your online/hybrid/Face to Face teaching.
Pratt Canvas Basics
“Pratt Canvas Basics” is a Canvas course designed specifically for Pratt faculty’s use of Canvas. If you’ve never used Canvas before as an instructor, we recommend using this as a guide to setting up your Canvas courses for the first time while experiencing Canvas as a student. This course includes all the information you need to get started.
Canvas Checklist
This pdf outlines how to set up and navigate your courses as a faculty member. Use this to review the platform and the tools.
Example Canvas Course
“How to Make Spaghetti” is an example Canvas course for you to explore and familiarize yourself with the platform. Use this course to get ideas on your own course organization.
Canvas How-To Guides for Faculty & Students
Pratt Student Affairs has created a walkthrough for students to learn the basics of Canvas, click here to view the video.
Just Brushing Up
Videos from the T&L Forum
During the Teaching & Learning Fall Forum we had interactive Canvas Sessions that were used to explain the general Canvas setup once a Canvas course sandbox has been created. We recorded these sessions and made them available to you.
Canvas Cheat Sheet for Faculty
Do you need a refresher on Canvas? The Canvas Cheat Sheet for Faculty is a PDF that includes step-by-step overviews of many Canvas topics (access to the PDF with your Pratt gmail below).
Library of Canvas Tutorial Videos
Remember seeing something useful in a Canvas tutorial video but don’t know how to find that video? Here are all the Canvas Instructor Videos
My Class Specifically
Some Canvas rabbit-holes for you to travel down as you really get the hang of designing and redesigning the special parts of what make your class outstanding, engaging, and fun.
Interactive Online Teaching Techniques Community
The Interactive Online Teaching Techniques Community is a Canvas space that can show you tools and techniques that will enhance your online teaching on Canvas with a more interactive and engaging learning environment.
California Ed. Initiative Byte-sized Canvas Tutorials
This video series teaches you what’s new on Canvas (or just new to you!) and how you can use it, along with other pedagogical and technological tips to support high quality online course design.