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Migrating to Canvas
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Canvas 101 Course Description

Why Canvas, Why Now?

Canvas has been identified as the state-of-the-art learning management system (LMS) in use by 11 of 14 institutions in the Big 10 Academic Alliance. Our campus contract with Blackboard (Compass2g) expires in June 2022, and their current hosting environment faces an end of life in late 2022. The expiration of the contract, along with the desire to move campus forward, led to the decision to begin the transition now. We believe that moving towards a single common platform will, first and foremost, improve the learning experience for our students; it will also reduce costs and minimize resource redundancies across campus.

The Student Success Initiative began by inviting faculty, staff, and student voices to recognize existing strengths and to identify opportunities to promote student success. The initiative found that the proliferation of LMS and LMS-like systems complicated the student experience. In this way, student needs aligned with recent LMS trends, the timing of our contracts, and budgetary priorities. With the move to Canvas, we have the opportunity to reimagine our digital learning ecosystem around a modern and flexible learning management system.

See more FAQs and the project timeline on the Move to Canvas website.

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Register for Additional Courses

Illinois Canvas Community Course - join the Canvas community, submit questions for our experts, connect with campus consultants, and much more.
Migrating from Compass2g to Canvas - whether you're moving your course manually, or using an automated option, this course will help you transition an existing course into the Canvas environment.
Canvas 102 - Managing Courses in Canvas - this course will pick up where Canvas 101 leaves off. You'll explore the Canvas grade book, SpeedGrader, quiz moderation tools and other topics essential to managing your course and your students in the Canvas environment.

Canvas 101: Building Courses in Canvas

This self-paced course will introduce new Canvas users to the most commonly used tools. Designed around Canvas video tutorials and documentation, this course provides streamlined instructions and activities to help you make the most of available resources, as well as your time.

Canvas 101 introduces the following tools:

Home page customization
Modules, Pages and Files
Course navigation settings
Communication tools (announcements, email, calendar)
Assignment tools (assignments, discussions, quizzes)

In this short course we'll begin by exploring course organization and navigation. As you'll see in the next section, Canvas uses modules as the primary navigation structure for presenting course content to your students. Using modules as recommended throughout this course will allow your students to easily navigate instructional content and activities.

This course contains four modules of structured content as well as four additional modules for you to explore. If you're new to Canvas, we recommend you complete these first four modules in sequence.

Additional modules can be accessed at any time through the main course menu. These modules provide examples of course structure you may want to consider, and other topics of interest including using templates in Canvas, and a brief introduction to Universal Design for Learning.

Extra Credit and Additional Resources (optional items)
Imported File Examples (see how .pdf, .ppt, .mpg and other file types display within a module)
Module Template Example : Weekly Hybrid (for demonstration purposes only)
Module Template Example : Engage, Explore, Expand, Evaluate, Extend (for demonstration purposes only)

Click on any link above to navigate to that particular module, or click the button below to see a student view of all modules available within this course.

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TRAINING - Canvas 101