Do you have lots of course cards that you wish you could combine to make managing your classes easier in Canvas? Some situations where this may be useful are:
For more details on cross-listing, check out the "Canvas Guide: How do I cross-list a section in a course as an instructor?".
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Canvas Blueprints can be a lifesaver or a pain in the you know what! A blueprint course allows you to create content and learning objects, lock specific settings or content items, and push updates to all associated courses through course syncing. On our campus, PLC teams use blueprint courses to create common content and push out to the individual teacher's course for consistency and to save time. There's no point in four different teachers doing the same task separately when you can do it once for everyone on the team. The drawback is that sync between the blueprint and the yearly courses can be broken by editing in the yearly course. This often causes lots of frustration and wasted time and energy. When you think you've got your course ready to go only to find out that you're missing an update because of a broken sync,...well, it is frustrating. Is your yearly course no longer updating when you sync changes from the blueprint? Guess what?! We can recover the sync by locking pages! Let me show you how in today’s Minute Monday! A few things to consider before locking pages:
Blueprints are not the best solution for everyone or every situation. Not all Canvas courses need blueprints. I seriously love blueprints when working as a team that seeks continuity between courses. Knowing this little tip can be a lifesaver for your common content and learning objects!
With a year of Canvas under our belts, it's time to start cleaning up our Canvas courses. With this being the first year of Canvas implementation, there was quite a bit of trial and error. Staff survey results showed that teachers either want to make minor adjustments or completely overhaul their courses and most of the responses referred to the organization of their courses.
Being in the middle of remote learning during COVID-19 quarantine, a face-to-face training is not possible. I debated between a Zoom webinar or an asynchronous option and I settled on EdPuzzle because I really wanted to talk through the presentation and collect responses from participants. I am so excited that there will soon be a Screencastify + Edpuzzle integration.
Check out the 30-minute EdPuzzle "webinar" for real teacher examples and to get inspiration for how to organize your Canvas course to simplify navigation and increase student engagement.
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