Hello. Welcome to Canvas pages. We're going to talk today about a bunch of different things having to do with pages which you can use pages for in Canvas, things like that.
Basically what's going on here as canvas can use pages like a web page. So you. This allows you to communicate visually with your students, you can welcome your students to a class, you can introduce topics to the student
Etc. This allows you to
Communicate with your students in a way that is going to that they're used to. Because they're using its using web pages.
And they're very used to doing that.
So pages themselves can contain pictures text links videos documents you can have your documents actually show up and be viewable to the students immediately when they go into the page.
So they don't need to download a document to view it or anything like that. This is really nice because that allows them to work on their cell phone.
The cell phone works with pages, pages will scroll up and down nicely. It's designed for working that way. The other part to it is you can very easily. Check Accessibility on your pages using the different tools that we've got. We'll talk about that a little bit as well.
So when you're setting up a page, always remember page design. So you want to make visual pages visually interesting
You don't want it to be way too busy too much information is just too much information, think about
Google's home site. It literally says Google and has a link to for you to start typing in
It's very simple. And it's one of the most powerful things that Google has done is to make a very simple website to start
Once you start typing. Now it gets more interesting and you get more information on their case. So the next part is along those same lines, minimize the clicks and downloads.
Embed videos, images and slides, rather than having them have to have the student have to click on it to go to another page to view that
You can use links to other parts of the course, and you can link to outside resources. A good example of that is you can give the students a link to IDC technical support.
And now in your canvas class. They could just click on that and they can go to our webpage tech that I vc.edu and learn about all kinds of different things having to do with Canvas and other components.
So when you first go into the course on the left hand side, it has a menu option for pages when you click on that, it comes up immediately and says,
You have no pages created yet add one, and so you click on plus page. I'm going to go through how to create your first page through PowerPoint, then we're going to go in, take a look at pages. And I'll give you a lot more information on how to do it and actually create a page with you.
So when you click on plus pages you get the page showing up this page is very much like you would see for
If you're going into
A assignment, a quiz anything else that's got a description. It's got the same description components there.
You type in the name of the page that you want. You put the information in for the page and then you can you can have a to do for students or whatever. There's some other information there. But this has got the same components that you do for editing an assignment, a discussion or a quiz.
You then hit save. When you're done, you cannot. Nobody can view it until it is published, but it gives you that opportunity as well. So now let's take a look at canvas.
And see what that would look like. So what you have in front of you is a example Canvas course.
And this is what it could look like something like this when somebody would go into your course at the top. I've got recent announcements. And then below that I have the course itself. This is from the teachers perspective.
And so here I've got an image.
I VC logo and embedded video
This is different links in the class. So this one is announcements and if you click on this one. It would take you to grades here. This takes you to the syllabus.
There's a link for three see media confers zoom and you do it that are all part of the class all set up in this particular area here in Canvas for this particular assignment or for this class. So let's go ahead and build a page.
And then we'll get into even editing this page. So the first thing here is on the left, you click on pages. Now you notice that pages is light gray for me.
The reason for that is because I like to keep my menus to a minimum for students.
Only give them what they need access to. If they don't need access to something. I don't want it to show up and have them asking questions about it. So I minimize
The number of items on the left in the course navigation and so grayed out items don't show up. So if I go to pages, it's going to come up with the homepage.
Under the homepage. It's got exactly what we were just looking at.
And you can see the homepage that we were looking into again. If I click on one of these I right click and open in a new tab just to demonstrate this took me right to announcements that I can see announcements here so you can do that within your page.
What I could do now as I can edit the homepage or in this case, I want to view all pages and you'll see that there are no other home no other pages. So let's create a new page to do so. You hit plus page.
And new page.
You can call it whatever is appropriate. So you could put your syllabus here and or something like that, if you wanted to. There's a lot of different things, whatever you want to do to communicate with your students.
So for instance, if you have some materials that you want the students to have access to that would be let's say you were teaching a programming class you want them to have access to Microsoft.
Microsoft MS D and, you know, anything that you want the developer network, for instance, anything like that. You could put that in and put the text associated with it in here. So, for instance, let's go with, let's talk about something for new page.
Let's, let's call it webinar here.
Alright so I'm putting in some text. Now I could save this.
I'm not going to publish it yet, but if I save it and I go back to view all pages.
It comes up and there you see the page that I just created.
By click on it, it's literally the page that I just created. So it's really bland.
To make it look more interesting. I can do things like I can put in I VCs logo. So how do I do that on the right hand side I have under images.
I have pulled in a whole lot of images.
And under those images.
I could load more results or
Rather than that I can embed an image, there's two different ways of doing it in Canvas in Canvas. I can go in, I can click on course files.
And here you see some course files that are in here.
I'm going to take a look here, this is just faster because I know it's called starts with an eye.
So Irvine Valley College logo. Go ahead and pick this one I can upload files if I want as well.
Alternate Text very important to put alt text in. I'm not going to right now and I'll explain. I'll show you why in a moment.
This could be a decorative image. In fact, it is a decorative image because it really doesn't give anything for the page. It's. And so if I click that, that will make it so that I don't have an accessibility issue and doing that. And now you see I VC.
Logo sitting there. If I select that and center it now it's centered on the page already. This is a little bit more appealing than it was looking like before.
I can also take the font and make it larger. Again, you can do all of this stuff when you're creating your assignments quizzes discussions, etc.
So I can also pull links into other parts of the course. What would I be talking about here in the upper right, there's an option for links. So here I can under course navigation pick the different parts that I might want a student to go to
But in doing that. Maybe I want to include an image. So here I can again embed image.
And
Course files course images.
And here.
See if I can find an image that would be useful.
Got a bunch of button images here.
Let me go back one level.
So here I'm going to use an image of me.
Update. This
And this is really big for what I would want on the screen, but also I'm I've only got a little bit of area to work. So one of the things that you can do is here in the lower right hand corner, there's this triangle.
You can click on that and drag it down and now you get a larger area to work in. Now I can click on the image.
select that and make it a little smaller. You see how it's automatically made that a lot smaller. Now, what do I want to do with that image, it can just be an image.
Or I could have that goes to people. So I've selected the image. Now if I go over here to the right under course navigation and click on people.
I have just created a link on that image to people.
What good is that well.
I can decide it
Put something else, such as
Type in syllabus and have that be a link to the syllabus.
And if you see an underline like is happening there on the in the white space up at the top, there's an option for removing the link. So here I want syllabus.
To have a link and I want the person here to have a separate link. So I want to check that that's saying, for some reason, that's going to the syllabus. So I don't want that. I want to go back and have that code to people.
Right.
Now I can create links to modules.
Now, one of the nice things is you can have a link to the modules or you can go to specific modules. Notice here on the right, it has module. Why would that be the case. You could actually have a web page that here that says please see the week one.
Module.
For information.
And you can actually select week one module here.
And under modules on the right click on week one. And now that becomes a link
So let's see what this looks like if I save this.
Now the web page.
Itself. Here is a link to people and you see when I move the mouse over it, it says people. This is a link to the syllabus. I move the mouse over it, it says syllabus and if I move the mouse over this one, it says, week one module or the week one.
If I right click on that.
In order to open it in a new tab.
Here, it took me directly to the week one module and had it open, so
How is this useful, you have the ability to in your homepage. Walk the students through and give them the specific things that you want them to have access to
On a page, rather than having to do it specifically in in modules. Now I like modules. I think they're very useful. You see here that this module is broken up in a lot of different ways. And there's another
Webinar that we're going to do on modules, but just because it's there, doesn't mean that's not the best that you can't do in another way.
So here we've got a new page that we've set up with links to different things. So let me close a couple of tabs here at the top. If I right click on this one and open the people in a different tab. Now you see what shows up in people.
Syllabus the same way.
And next week's webinar will go over creating assignments and how the syllabus gets filled out from assignments. But if we look at the syllabus.
You'll see here there's a syllabus some text up here at the top, which will clean up next week as well as some assignments and things like that are showing up.
So this is the type of thing that you can do, and have it off of one page instead of having to go instead of making the students basically click on all of the different links.
They can do it from this one page. Going back to the homepage. That's what I did with this homepage. So in the homepage.
The first part here is just a picture my daughter has spent the last six months in the Caribbean on on that ship that is in view there. And one morning she texted me a picture and said this is my view this morning as she was zip lining
Hey, you know, I love the picture, which are the best and made me jealous. That's for sure. So I like that picture I put it in there. Now I've got Irvine Valley College.
Some information and here if you wanted to see an overview of Canvas. Here is a video that is built into it. So I can go and I can get a video and put it in directly in a minute. I'll show you how to do that with YouTube videos.
And then here as I explained before, here are different components that are built into this particular website already and I just used images to explain what they are.
So,
One of the things that I showed you here that I haven't shown you yet.
Is
For go back to pages.
Remember I said it would come up immediately with your homepage.
I go back and I edit this page. This webinar page, I can add videos.
So clicking on edit.
I can put in videos here for whatever I want. So for instance, YouTube.
I can go to YouTube, I can search for
Something like canvas student groups.
And here is a video on that and I can click on embed
And now I have just embedded in this
Page a video for Canvas groups.
When I save it.
There is that video in there. And notice I didn't have to click on something for the video to show up. I have to click on something for it to play, but I can, it shows up automatically
Now I have not published this page yet. So if I put it in modules or put it someplace for the students to see they won't be able to see it until I click on publish everything in Canvas has to be published. But that's now that I've done that I can go into modules.
And I can in week one module for instance I can now add that page.
So here I clicked on the plus go to pages.
Find the page. And now I can drag it and put it where I want it to be. For instance,
The webinar are under material.
Now as a student, you will be able to see it as a teacher, I can click on it and go through and edit it.
So something else that might be useful, is I'd like this top image to be the ABC homepage. If somebody clicks on that. So you can constantly go back and edit and fix things and see what makes sense. So here I've selected the image I want
Now the link. I'm talking about is not one of the links on the right. Instead, I want to add a link in here.
I can insert the link
And now when I save it.
If the student clicked on it.
It would open up the Irvine Valley College homepage. And you can see that there's a finger there so that it would indicate that there's a link behind it. So basically what we're seeing here is that you can create a lot of content. You can do a lot of things with this page.
Created the way you want it develop things that are useful to you and useful to the students. Again, communicating things to the students quickly, easily, but it's not an assignment. It's not something that you're going to have to grade. It's more as a communication tool.
So,
Some general information for you. If you're looking for resources for students tech that ivy. See that edu is a great place for students to go as well as as
Faculty, you can, you'll see all kinds of information, how to log into Canvas. How to login to emails, stuff like that, that's under tech
www.sec.edu got a lot of information, especially under distance education specifically for students.
Training that obviously that edu. That's where you sign up for webinars like this, things like that. And Google com is great for for you to find out information about Canvas canvas is now the largest
Learning Management System in the United States. And so you can find a lot of information. People will ask you a lot of questions and a lot of detail behind how to use Canvas.
If you can't find it anywhere else, or if you need help much more quickly than any of these others will provide on the left in Canvas is the canvas. Help button.
Feel free to click on that and there's a phone number, there's a different phone number for faculties and there is for students call that number and they will help you 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They've been very, very good, very, very helpful.
So all of that said
Do you have any questions that I can go over
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Hello. Hello.
I say
Yeah.
This is really great. I have to spend time to learn and I'm sure you're going to send the video back to us again after the meeting is over.
But for all this. We do do i do we have to explain to students how to use it or you train the students for this as well.
The material resources.
Yeah.
Some stuff some stuff. Yes.
It's nice to have you train them. We're also developing a lot of the documentation. And so you can create a page with links to the stuff that I've written
And so rather than you.
Physically going through it with them. You, you can say, hey, if you're having problems go to this. And that's what this tech that obviously.edu is good for
Yeah, I know that. But I'm saying you
Know orientation.
Do they get orientation before they start the class or I think used to be students get some orientation on the software before the same class.
That's up to you. You can require them to go through an orientation and the Orient, there is online orientation that's available to them and you can just require them to go through that, if you'd like, but it all depends on the teacher.
Some teachers do require it, and some teachers don't
If your students have taken online classes, then it, they tend to get upset. Well not upset, but they're they're bored by taking the orientation for each class.
On the other hand, it's good for them to be reminded of the different things that are in that orientation and that helps them get into Canvas and stuff like that as well. So there is this
Lip and Oreos, and that I can get you information on monkey and this
So this students who start canvas.
Without
Knowing what canvases and is our job to tell them to go to different sort resources.
It would. It would be nice to do that. It's up to you. In reality, if they're having. By the time you see the students, most students have use Canvas in the reason I say that is because in in Irvine Irvine Unified School District.
Uses canvas from I believe it's kindergarten on up.
Haha, yeah. So they're already there more familiar with Canvas and many of us are
Were here in Santa Barbara. The Santa Barbara City College offers a half a unit course which is, I believe, four weeks or something like that.
Where the students who wants to take
Canvas.
And then what happened. They take the course the food, the stone canvas. That's what my question was, yeah.
Okay, so we do have an orientation course that a lot of teachers have their students take
And all that is they
They go through it themselves. It's self paced usually takes them about half an hour.
And they can go through that at the end of it they take their grades and they do a snapshot of their grades and they upload it for the teacher, and then the teacher knows that they've actually done it.
And so a lot of a lot of teachers have that and have the students do that.
Ok ok now let's talk about security. I think we
I have this simplest canvas. I already. I just worry about rooms.
In our conferences. So How secure are these different things that we do regarding regarding embedding from internet and so on. And then
Students have access to grades that possible. The someone if we do it this way.
In Adventist the of by the stick the they look at some of some students, some other students grades or something like that, is that is canvas has the security to show yeah if you press are great.
Okay.
So an example of what grades would look like. Yes, is if you click on one
Students grade once do. Yes.
This is what a student sees
Okay, okay. They do not see actual grades.
Okay, they see their grades, but they
Cannot see anybody else's. Great. Okay. Okay. Because
What I just was wondering because we put so much things. And, you know, then something can go wrong sometimes. Thank you.
Right, absolutely. So that's also why I like to have things
That are hidden from the students. Notice smiles here is hidden from the students are you hit reason. How do you hide them, by the way. Sure.
Under settings.
Yeah.
And navigation.
Okay. That means I setting.
Navigation. Yes.
Right, you can drag
Anything that's at the top down.
And anything that is at the bottom you can drag up
Okay.
And so for instance if I'm not going to take attendance, I would drag that down to the bottom.
Mm hmm. And then you have to go down and
Save it when you're done.
And on the left hand side now attendance is no longer on the left.
Okay.
You mentioned in sometimes bag. You going to
Teach us. You did you do I do when you do it, you do it. Yeah. Yes.
Okay, so there will be another webinar on you do it itself. I don't think there's a couple of other tools that are associated with that. The nice part is in this case.
You do it.
If you run you do it.
On your class and you can do
This in any class.
Mm hmm.
I can scan this course and what will happen in about a minute, depending on the size of the course. It will come up and it will give me a list of what I've done wrong, or what I need to improve in the class.
And
It's, it's for an accessibility standpoint. So mom, for instance.
It came up with five errors.
Two of which alternate text should not be the same as the image file name, but
So that I can just keep on scrolling down now I
Can see where those errors are so in the homepage. I had one here alternate text should that be the image file name. Well, let me see what it is that I did here. This is oh Irvine Valley College. I want to fix it.
So I can click on you fix it.
And submit and now I've just fixed that error.
And I can go to the next page.
Now, okay, I think we deviate from
Each one and and it's really nice because it allows you to look at it and fix it. So here, this. Oh, okay. This is actually
cost you a nice image. What's wrong with
No, because I didn't have alt text alternate text. So if somebody was using a screen reader, they wouldn't be able to tell what that was. Yeah, you know. Yeah. Okay.
And so, it literally as you see it opens up the image and here. No, no. Closed Captioning found. Well, that's because it's a YouTube video. So there's nothing I can do about that because it's not my video.
Okay, so I'd have to close.
That what in this case.
But it takes me through each and every step and allows me to fix it. And the ones I fixed are turned to green. The ones I haven't fixed yet are still read and then I can rescan it later. And it just helps you identify what's going on.
Now, okay, um, and so we're going to have a session on you do it. You do it later on. Yeah. Yes. I'll have a completely separate section.
On session on you do it.
Right.
Any other
Questions or anything.
No.
All right you so much.
Thank you. You're welcome.
Next Friday is
I'm going to do next Friday, even though technically it's a holiday. I'm going to do next Friday as well. And that is on assignments and creating assignments and stuff like that. So, okay, now
Are you going to send a video for dishes. Well, like last time I send a video, I will. Yes.
And actually I'm going to have a whole web page, and I'll send you access to that page that will have access to the video for this as well as all the videos that I do even going forward will be on that one page.
Okay. So then you'll have that for
For ever so okay
Thank you so much. Have a great weekend. You're welcome. Thanks. You too.
Thanks.