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Teaching With Canvas

TECH-902
3 Credits
Online
4.79/5.00
TECH-902
3 Credits
Online
4.79/5.00

What is the Teaching with Canvas Course for Teachers?

The Teaching With Canvas course is designed to help teachers transform their classrooms by mastering Canvas and learning to navigate the platform’s Learning Management System (LMS). Canvas can open the door for teachers to engage students better and achieve better student outcomes. Educators leave this course ready to use Canvas in their classrooms, including creating content and managing student submissions and grades.

What Will You Learn?

Educators in the Teaching With Canvas course learn practical approaches to using Canvas and valuable tips for using it in the classroom. Thanks to its innovative software, Canvas for teachers opens up new possibilities that once may have been too time-consuming.

Canvas training online yields benefits for both teachers and their students. In the course, teachers create a Canvas account, learn where to access resources that help them explore Canvas further, and develop their own course using the Canvas LMS. They also participate in an online community of Canvas users, learn how to assess student-created content in Canvas and analyze student data.

What Are the Assignments and Projects?

The professional development Teaching With Canvas course is self-paced. Fresno Pacific University allows students to enroll at any time and take up to one year from the registration date to complete all assignments. Modules within the course include:

  • Introduction to Canvas
  • Setting up Your Course
  • Creating Assignments and Assessments Within Your Course
  • The Canvas Gradebook, Grading, Rubrics and Analytics
  • Importing and Exporting Content
  • Canvas Apps

Who Should Enroll in the Teaching With Canvas Course?

Teaching With Canvas is designed for 6-14 grade teachers and is aligned with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

What Educators Who Took the Teaching With Canvas Are Saying

“It was exactly what I was looking for with regard to building my confidence in using Canvas as an LMS.”
– Educator, Ohio

“Very helpful and easy to follow. Lessons felt helpful and not like busy work. I learned a lot.”
– Educator, California

NOTE: There is no required book for this course.

This course is applicable towards the Online Teaching Certificate and Technology Skills for Educators Certificate.

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Jordan Samsonas

Instructor
I've been a middle school social studies teacher for 14 years. I can't imagine doing any other job. I love teaching students, and consider myself fortunate to be working in a career that I'm so passionate about. I'm also passionate about helping my fellow teachers do what they love to do better. Two years ago, my school asked me to become the Technology Integrator for classroom instruction (in addition to maintaining my full teaching responsibilities). I jumped at the opportunity. Even though it is often difficult doing both roles well, I'm glad to be in the classroom full time while also acting as a resource for my colleagues. My online courses are the result of my desire to help as many teachers as I can in any way possible.