DLI 1st grade guide

Canvas for Elementary Expectations & Style Guide Canvas, CSD's learning management system (LMS), supports various modes of teaching and learning, and acts as an extension of the in-person classroom environment. All CSD teachers are expected to maintain a Canvas course.

Canvas Course Expectations & CSD Style Guide Checklist

Assessments cont..

Teacher Account Settings

Subject Settings

Important Dates Sidebar

❏ When appropriate use rubrics ❏ Grade using Speedgrader ❏ Provide due dates ❏ Unpublish assignments not being used Using assignment groups to organize and/or weight overall assignment grades Recommended Design Elements Something to Consider ❏

Required

Things to Consider ❏ Added by teacher using the Canvas calendar and/or when editing an assignment. ❏ Each item in the list

Required

❏ Profle picture ❏ Notifcation preferences

❏ Update Card Image ❏ Update Wide Banner Image ❏ Update Friendly Name

Optional

❏ Pronouns

includes the course name, the item title, and the icon that represents the item. displayed on the students’ Canvas dashboard and are listed by date with the most recent date displayed frst. ❏ Clearly label modules (i.e. labeling modules by date) ❏ Use a consistent organization structure ❏ The frst page of each module is a content page that describes the learning intentions, success criteria, and a sequenced list of the module tasks and assignments. ❏ Modules may include the following content (content pages, assignments, discussions, fles, external links, and quizzes) ❏ If modules contain 10 or more items consider breaking it down into smaller pieces or use text headers to group content. ❏ Consider unpublishing modules not being used ❏ Important Dates are Modules

Subject Navigation

Homeroom Course

Required

❏ Home

❏ Use Homeroom course created from the Canvas/Skyward sync ❏ Enable as Homeroom course ❏ Publish course ❏ If applicable, cross-list Canvas courses Note: If a course isn’t created through the sync, create your own course.

Optional

❏ Modules ❏ Grades ❏ Schedule ❏ Groups

❏ Use images that

represent real people and represent diversity

Subject Home Page

❏ Length of content

Required

pages, and the amount of scrolling needed. (less is more)

❏ Multimedia element ❏ Welcome message or

Homeroom Announcements & Resources

information, directions on how to navigate Subject.

❏ Accessibility

❏ Label images

(including Gifs) ❏ Closed captioning for online videos ❏ Image titles providing links that take students outside of Canvas ❏ Contrast of text color and background color ❏ Use consistent and appropriate fonts and colors ❏ Use icons to represent specifc learning tasks. ❏ Embed videos vs uploading them to a Canvas page, assignment, etc. ❏ Embed content vs

Optional ❏ Course schedule, including synchronous meetings and access links ❏ Links to pages, modules, resources

Required: Announcements

❏ Updated every two weeks ❏ Must include applicable information at that time. (i.e. learning intentions and success criteria for the week, information for students and/or parents)

Subject Resources

Optional ❏ Update Important Information (i.e. links to subject specifc resources, how-to and/or troubleshooting resources for specifc subjects and content) ❏ Update subject navigation to provide quick links to resources such as: ❏ Google Drive ❏ Clever ❏ Badges ❏ ConnectED ❏ Zoom

Resources

❏ Update Important

Information to include: Link to disclosure statement and teacher contact information

Assessments

Optional: Resources

Sharing Content Options

❏ Use a variety of

assessment types (assignments, discussions, quizzes, etc.)

❏ Include additional info such as course schedule, including synchronous meetings and access links, links to help documents

❏ Direct Share ❏ Canvas Commons ❏ Sandbox course

❏ Clearly label ❏ Provide clear directions