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The following is an account of social studies 6 top five Canvas LMS applications that we use every day. As we move closer to a 1:1 Chromebook student environment you may find these interesting. Do you have your own list? Post it to the comments below.
1. Announcements: You may not want to make an announcement (blog post) every day but we post what we did in class, assignments absent students should do, and as we near a test - Test Tips. We can post links to videos, documents, or web pages as needed. Anything you can create or post to Canvas you can post to the announcement rich text editor.
2. Modules: This is the place we post all curriculum assignments, videos, links to web pages and documents. We exclusively use Google Drive to create documents that we want students to copy and complete. Some are instructional and some we create as tables, sentence starters, images, etc. When working in groups we post the document and have each group leader make a copy and send it out to the individuals in the group via student email. In this way, each group can work collaboratively on the same document. This technique has some drawbacks as some students make "group" related errors to the document but as the year goes on group work gets smoother and there are "undo" functions. A well-chosen leader can go a long way towards success.
3. Grades and Speed Grader: After we have made an assignment or quiz that we want students to submit, the Grades function works well. Assuming you have "cross-listed" your classes we can select an individual class or all students in one list. As we troubleshoot late assignments we can quickly scroll to the student in question or collect scores to transfer later to HAC. Speed Grader is used to see each student submission or look through quiz results to troubleshoot any results.
4. Notifications: We use the notifications function to determine which student responses we want to be sent our phones or emails. This may be too much for some, but I like to know when one of my students has a question. I can choose when or if to respond.
5. Link to the online textbook: We have posted a link to the student subscription log in. In this way, students can remain "close to the learning" and don't have to open up another tab.
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