Canvas Lms Course Design - Couverture souple

Ryan, John, Fca; John, Ryan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782160647 ISBN 13 : 9781782160649

Editeur : Packt Pub Ltd, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Design, build, and teach your very own online course using the powerful tools of the Canvas Learning Management System

About This Book

• Covering everything right from creating your first course to publishing and taking part
• Discover a whole new, interact way for your students to learn and communicate
• Easily create, grade and discuss projects or assignments

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for educators who want to use Canvas to enhance their teaching or for educators whose institution has adopted Canvas as its learning management system. Whether you are brand new to online learning or you are a seasoned expert, you will be able to master both the basic functions and the advanced features of Canvas with this book.

What You Will Learn

• Create, access, and personalize your user account and profile settings
• Customize your individual user settings to ensure ease of use and optimum functionality of services
• Upload and import course content for students to access and use as they participate in your course
• Generate individualized assignments that reflect the variety of your assessment and grading needs
• Design the layout of your course to present the course content with clarity and simplicity
• Add students to your course and communicate with them to facilitate their success
• Review, assess, and grade assignments
• Integrate advanced features of Canvas with your educational needs to create a unique and transformative educational experience

In Detail

Canvas LMS Course Design will guide you through the steps of setting up your Canvas account, adding content and assignments, designing and customizing the course layout, and teaching your course. Whether you use an institutional or Free for Teachers account, this book will show you exactly how to use Canvas for grading, assessment, feedback, and communication with and between students, either as a platform for an online course or as a supplement to a live course. This book will give you the expertise you need to create a transformative and personalized learning experience for all of your students.

By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly master the features of Canvas to create a customized learning experience. With ample screenshots that offer a play-by-play account of how to build a phenomenal course, Canvas LMS Course Design will ensure your success with this cutting-edge learning management system.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ryan John

Ryan John is a graduate of Westminster Choir College of Rider University, where he spent 3 years as a Technical Assistant for the pilot program of the Instructure Canvas Learning Management System at Rider University. While at Rider and Westminster, he served as a Technical Assistant, Course Designer, and Course Consultant for over a dozen courses offered by Westminster Choir College, the Westminster Office of Continuing Education, and the Westminster Center for Critical Pedagogy. During Rider's university-wide implementation of the Instructure Canvas LMS, he assisted with faculty training sessions and individual tutorials in course organization, design, and management. In addition to his work in online course design, Ryan serves on the editorial board of Visions of Research in Music Education, the scholarly journal of the New Jersey Music Educators Association. He has worked as a freelance copy editor, both privately and for GIA Publications, and he has been a music editorial intern at Oxford University Press. He is currently the Upper School Choral Director at Leman Manhattan Preparatory School in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Pub Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1782160647
• ISBN 13: 9781782160649
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 248