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ANNOUNCER: OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

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OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Leading adult education through support for and the effective application of technology. Professional Development, Teaching with Technology, OTAN Digests and Newsletters, News and Social Media, Annual Technology and Distance Learning Symposium, Online Resources and Video Presentations. OTAN dot US. 916-288-2580. OTAN ONLINE Canvas Teachers - Using a Template or Blueprint Course. Presenter: Dana Thompson, OTAN Subject Matter Expert. February 29, 2024. Dana Appears in a video call tile on screen.

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DANA THOMPSON: So hello. Good morning. Welcome to Blueprints and Templates. And last week, we talked about Blueprints and Templates from the admin perspective. Setting those up, managing them, what they can lock down and not lock down, those kinds of things.

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Slide text, Blueprints and Templates for Admin. Blueprints and Templates for Teachers. Dana Thompson, SME. D Thompson at S C O E dot net. At Techie Thompson.

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Today, we're going to look at them from the teacher's perspective. So if you are a teacher in a course that is a Blueprint-associated course, what can and can't you do?

Or if you're starting from a template, how are ways that you can get your content in there? So hopefully you can hear me. I'm going to assume you can. If you have any questions, please feel free to put those in the chat. I will be monitoring the chat as we go. You will have time to experiment yourself. So if you'd like to have Canvas open, then that way, you can go in and maybe do some of the things that I'm doing.

So first off, if you can put in the chat whether you are a teacher, an admin, or both. Because I can review some of the things that we talked about last week as far as mostly that's going to pertain to Blueprints. Today, I'm going to spend most of the time on Templates. Because setting up a Template is easy. Using it as a teacher is what we need to focus on. Whereas the blueprints, it's easy as a teacher to use it, but to set those up as an admin. So that's why last week, we spent most of the time on Blueprints.

So feel free to put in the chat whether you're a teacher, an admin, or you're going to be doing both roles. And that will help me customize what we're talking about today. Excellent. Thank you, Mary. OK, so just as a reminder. Blueprints, which, again, we spent most of the time on last week, that's where you can set up a master course and then push content out across multiple associated courses, teacher and admin both. OK, great.

So those master courses are great. So for example, what we worked on last week is we had a master intro to culinary arts. And we were able to push content down to associated courses, so that everybody was teaching the same content. And then lock down areas that we didn't want to be modified or customized. And then open up areas that we wanted to give the teachers the ability to customize.

And then because they're still associated, you can push content down even after students are enrolled and teachers have been working. So there are instances where you might have a master course, and you want to push content out on a weekly basis. And so you can do that with Blueprints.

So it's consistent course design, content synchronization. Changes in the Blueprint course will automatically sync to all associated courses. Those locked areas will overwrite any existing content. Unlocked content will remain editable, so that your teachers can customize them. So that's kind of a Blueprint, and we're going to look at that a little bit today.

And then again, you can lock down on a general level, like any content is locked down, or you can pick and choose. So like with assignments, you can choose that the content is locked and the due dates are locked, but the teachers can customize the points or the availability dates. So the distribution is top down. So the Blueprint course must be in the same sub account as the associated courses. And it's created and maintained by that account admin or designee.

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Slide text, Key Features of Blueprint Courses: Content Types: Supports all Canvas content types (files, assignments, quizzes). Distribution: Top-down sync, exact copy from master to associated courses. Management: Created and maintained by account admins or designated roles. Content Locking: Allows locking/unlocking of course objects (content, points, due dates). Enrollment: Does not include student enrollments.

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So the teachers are just able to modify what they modify in their courses, but it really does need to be maintained by somebody at that admin level. And neither Blueprints or Master Templates can contain students.

Having trouble uploading Canvas courses in Templates. So she's created courses, and she's trying to upload. I guess I don't understand what your question is. So let me know if it keeps timing her out. OK. So [INAUDIBLE NAME] if we can talk about that at the end, that might be something that is not a Blueprint or Template issue, but it might be something on the network side. Yeah. OK, perfect. Thank you.

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Slide text, Canvas Templates: Facilitates uniform course layout and content across new courses. Suitable for institutions seeking consistency in course design across various courses.

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So then we're looking at Canvas Templates. And again, this is where we're going to spend a lot of our time today because we're looking at it from the teacher's perspective. And so what this is, is instead of just getting a blank course with nothing in it and the teacher has to start from scratch to get it up and running for school or for classes to start, we can provide them with a course shell that has a structural foundation and some of those things already done for them.

And then they're on their own. They can use it or not. And they can customize it. And I'm going to show you some tips and tricks with that today. So this is great if you want consistency in your design and your branding, but you don't want to have to maintain the content. That's the teacher's role. So we'll take a look at that today.

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Slide text, Key Features and Limitations: Content Types: Supports all content types like Blueprint courses. Distribution: Applied to new course shells during creation, manual or via SIS. Management: Admins create and maintain course templates. Limitations: Updates to templates apply only to new courses. No direct association with existing courses.

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So some key features and limitations of the Template is that it supports all content types, like Blueprint courses. So a Blueprint course can start from a Template. And it applies to only new course shells during that creation. So if the Template has been assigned to that sub account, then anytime you create a new course, it will pull in that Template before the teacher has access to it. And that can be a manual course or an SIS. So the admins will create that Template and then maintain those Templates. But then after that it's an automated process.

So limitations is it does only apply to new courses. So there's no way to sync content after a course has been created. Once it's been created in the Templates in there, it's then disconnected. So the maintenance then becomes the teacher's responsibility. And there's no direct association with existing courses, like a Blueprint course that you can then sync content to. So two different reasons why you would use them.

OK, thank you. Does the instructor have to have a school email? So that is no, because this is what-- they're logged into Canvas. So the only way these will work is if they actually have an account in Canvas, they're logged in, and they have been assigned to the course. So the admin creates the Template or the Blueprint. They create the new course. The teacher is added to the course. And then they can go. But it doesn't really have anything to do with their email unless that's how they've been given access to Canvas, OK.

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A table compares the respective advantages and disadvantages of Blueprint and Template.

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OK, so this is just kind of a again, a review from last week from the admin one. So advantages, the Blueprint can sync content. It has more control. There's consistent course design that will not be modified because things can be locked down, whereas a Template it's an easy transition into new courses. There's a consistent starting point, but then after that, it's up to the instructors. It does have less initial work for the instructors to get started, but then they do have the ability to customize and put in their own content and all of those kinds of things.

So the disadvantages, it is a time intensive setup for Blueprints and there's potential overwriting of content that if you want-- if you did not lock it and the teacher modifies that page, that breaks that page's sync. So if you are updating content and expecting it to be pushed out, it won't be to those pages that are not locked. So really thinking through how you set those Blueprints up is key.

And then the downfall to Templates or disadvantage is that it's only limited to new courses, so you can't update something after the fact. And it does require admin intervention for setup. But again, it's kind of a one and done. You set it up, and you set it as the Template, and then you're done unless you change your Template, OK.

So we're going to get into Canvas and start taking a deeper look at this. So for purposes, I'm looking at an admin view. So if you are not an admin, you will not see this. But basically what I did is I logged into Canvas. So when we log into Canvas we all see the dashboard, right. And as a teacher, these are the courses that I'm enrolled in. This one is published. These three are being worked on. And they are not published yet, which means that students don't see them yet.

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On Dana's Dashboard page in Canvas, one tile with an image and title is listed under Published Courses and three are listed under Unpublished Courses.

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But as an admin, I can go into my admin shield and go into my sub account. And I can see all of the courses that are in my sub account.

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Dana clicks a shield icon on the leftmost menu down the side of the page, then clicks, Dana's Sandbox from a pop-out. With Courses selected from a white menu next to the leftmost menu, the page displays a table of courses with columns for things like Course, Term, Teacher, and Students.

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So what we looked at last week is that we have this course here as a Template. Notice there are no students enrolled in it. So Templates, and then this one right here is a Blueprint. And it also has no students enrolled in it. So Templates and Blueprints cannot have any student enrollments. They can have teacher enrollments, but not student enrollments. And then the admin has access to them just because they're an admin.

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Dana mouses over a course called TEMPLATE, then across to the Students column which lists a dash. She mouses over a course titled, BP 1.0 Intro to Culinary Arts, then over to the Students column, which lists a 0.

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So last week, we pulled the adult ed Template from the Commons. And so we kind of walked through those steps. And I know that video will be made available. If you didn't make it last week, then you can take a look through those. But I'm going to take a look at this Template. And again, it has this little icon that tells me as the admin that this is a Template. The Blueprint has a similar icon, looks a little bit different, that tells me it's a Blueprint.

So when I-- actually, let's start with Blueprints. So I'm going to come into this Blueprint course. This is a course that either me as an admin or somebody that I have designated is developing this course. So you can see it has a nice banner. It has a welcome message, but this is going to be left up to the teacher to customize. And then we've given a little note here where they consider adding a welcome video.

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Dana clicks the culinary arts course, opening the course page, which has a banner with an image of a chef, with a welcome message below. Below that, Dana highlights the text, consider adding a welcome video.

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So this is the home page and it is part of the Template. So when it's synced to the course that you're in as a teacher, you will see this. But you will have the ability to edit this page so that you can customize it. As a teacher, when I come into the Modules view, and again I'm in here as an admin, you can see that there's already a module for student resources, a module for Welcome to class, your journey begins here. And then we have a week one and a week two module.

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Dana clicks Modules in the white menu. On the following page, she scrolls through modules, which have titles above lists of items, like assignments, discussions, and quizzes. Near the right side of each item lies an icon of stacked papers. Some paper stack icons have padlock icons over them, while others do not.

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And it shows you over here what has been locked or not locked. And that tells you as a teacher, I have the ability to edit this page, wrap up and looking ahead. I do not have the ability to edit some of the things in this quiz, depending on how the admin set it up. So knowing that when you're looking at these icons that you might be limited in how you can customize a Blueprint once you're in there as a teacher, this is where you're going to find that.

So this page is wide open for me to update and customize myself, whereas this one might not be because it has some portions locked, OK. But what happens is with this Blueprint, I can now push out week one's module or week two's module so that the content is there, so the teacher doesn't have to build the content. But it does give them the opportunity to add to it or to customize parts that I said they could customize.

And as an admin, I can come in and continue to add to this course. And then push out that content, even if students are enrolled in the teacher's courses. So I'm going to come back to all of the courses that are in my sub account. And you can see here that that's the Blueprint that we were looking at. I'm going to come in here to-- these are two courses here that are attached to that Blueprint.

So

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Dana clicks the Admin shield icon again, and then Dana's Sandbox, to go back to the list of courses. She mouses over two courses, 1.1 and 1.2 Intro to Culinary Arts.

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now I'm going to look at-- here I am, Dana Thompson, the teacher, and I'm going to come into this course where I am the teacher.

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She mouses across to the Teacher column, which lists her name for both the 1.1 and 1.2 courses. She clicks the 1.2 course, opening a page with a heading, banner, and welcome message.

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Now, again, this is my first time in here, so I can see that this has been set up for me already. But I have the ability to come in here and click on Edit. And I can come down here to the welcome and I can get rid of the placeholder text. And I can say, welcome, we are entering a fun six weeks of intro to culinary arts.

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Dana clicks an Edit button, which has a pencil icon, above the upper right corner of the banner image. The following page has editable fields for the Page Title and body of the page. She deletes the welcome message and writes her own.

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I'm excited to cook with you. And you can do like a little, you know, introductory and put in as much information as you want.

I can also come in here, and because it's all built into canvas, it gave me my admin put in there, consider putting in a welcome video. So what I can do up here on The Rich Content editor, I can come over here to this insert media and I can either upload or record a video of me welcoming my students, which is a really nice thing to do on the welcome page because it makes that personal connection that doesn't otherwise get communicated through online communication.

So I'm going to choose Upload Record Media, and I can either upload one that I've recorded already and save it as an mp4 on my computer, or I don't even have to do that, I can record it right here in Canvas.

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In a toolbar above the editable body of the page, Dana clicks a button with a video and music note icon, then clicks, Record Media from the dropdown. The popup reads, Drag a file here, with a tab labeled, Computer, selected above. Next to Computer, Dana clicks a tab labeled, Record. A popup appears. Dana clicks, Allow on every visit, the middle option between Allow this time and Don't allow.

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So it's going to pop up and ask you to allow Canvas to access your camera and your microphone. So I'm going to allow. And it sees my microphone. It doesn't see my video or my webcam because Zoom is using it.

So I think let me try this. I'm going to turn off my webcam and see if it will recognize it. So I'm going to just be--

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A bar across the bottom of the popup fluctuates with Dana's voice. A button below reads, Start Recording. Dana's video call tile disappears.

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OK, now let me see if it will use my-- no, it still seeing that Zoom is using it. But if Zoom wasn't using my webcam, then I would be able to come in here and see myself. But if I don't have a webcam, I can do a podcast, or I can do a welcome audio message. So I can come here and start recording.

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Dana clicks a button that says, Webcam, which changes nothing. Her video call tile reappears. She clicks the Start Recording button and a timer in the Upload Media popup clicks down from 3 to 1.

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And hopefully, you can see the window that's popped up. But I can record my welcome message. And when I'm done, I would click on Finish. And then save that. And it will input it right here on my welcome page.

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The audio bar continues to fluctuate with Dana's voice. The Start Recording button changes to say, Finish. Dana clicks Finish. Next to a button that says, Start Over, she clicks Save Media, closing the popup. Now, in the editable body text of the page, a media tile with a play button sits below the welcome message.

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And I don't-- again, I didn't have my video on. But it did put in this seven minute Welcome video, right, my message. So you can do that right inside Canvas with this icon right here, Record Upload Media, OK.

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Dana mouses over the video and music note icon in the tool bar again, opening the dropdown menu with the options, Record Media, Course Media, and User Media.

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And then I'm going to leave this because I want my students to know, and that was again put into the Blueprint and pushed out. I don't need to change it, but I can go ahead and save my Welcome page.

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Dana mouses over the pre-existing text, If you are accessing this course from a mobile device, please review the following: Mobile Guides - Canvas Student, at the bottom of the editable body. In the bottom right of the page, she clicks Save. The finished version of the page appears, including the audio medial file, with play, volume, settings, and full screen buttons.

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So I have my welcome message. I have my welcome video. Maybe on here, I could put in some additional information that they may need. But because it was not locked, I was able to change it, even though it's part of a Blueprint course.

So now, as the teacher, I can come into modules.

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Dana clicks Modules in the white menu. The page displays a list of collapsed modules, with titles only and not their component elements.

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And you can see that there's all these modules for me already, right. So I have-- these are two more modules that came actually with the Template, and it's just giving me the instructor some kind of instructions so that would be something that your, your administrator would have set up ahead of time. And I can either get rid of these modules or I can move the module to the very bottom, so it's not in my way, right.

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Dana clicks a three-dot icon on the right side of a module called, Instructor Module (Do Not Publish). From a dropdown, she clicks Move Module, which opens a pop-out and selects, At the Bottom, from a dropdown, then clicks Move.

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So I want to keep that information in case, I want to look at it later, but I can move it down to the very bottom. So I don't have to keep scrolling. And I'm going to do the same thing for this module. So just click on the three dots for the module and everything that's inside that module is going to move to the very bottom, or I can put it after my week two. So it's above the one that I moved, but not above my content.

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Dana repeats the process with another module, clicking the three dots, then Move Module. From the dropdown, she clicks, After, which makes another dropdown field appear. She selects the Week 2 module from this second dropdown.

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So you can move modules around like that, even though it's a Blueprint, I can move these modules around. So maybe I like to operate where I have week one and then when I'm ready to teach week two, I'm going to move week one to the bottom and put week two at the top. So my students don't have to scroll. So if that's the way that I operate, I'm going to go ahead and do that. Notice that I have-- I have all these modules, but if I have them all drop down and open, it's a lot of scrolling.

So if I'm just working on the module aspect of things, I'm going to collapse so that everything that's inside that module container is in there. But I don't have to look at it right now because I don't need to right now.

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At the top of the page, Dana clicks, Expand All, above the modules, which expands lists of items below all the module titles. She clicks Collapse All, to return the modules to a title-only view.

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So this Need Help that might be for my students, so I'm going to leave that up at the top because it will-- and again, this is pushed out by the Blueprint.

And that might be something that I can either customize or not customize. But I'm going to leave this here so that my students have access to it at the top of their module view.

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Dana clicks the first module, Need Help, which expands it to display a list of resources. She clicks the module title again to collapse it.

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And in the beginning, I want to keep my course overview here, right. But when I come into About This Course, you can see that it has a whole bunch of placeholder text.

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Dana expands the next module, Course Overview, then clicks About this Course from the list of items. A page of text opens, with bracketed placeholders for things like Name of Class.

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And this is all editable. So I have access to the Edit button. I can come in here and click on Edit.

And I can get rid of the placeholder text and I can put in my information about the name of the class. I'm going to put this as Intro to Culinary Arts.

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Dana clicks the Edit button in the upper right of the page, then edits the body text, changing the heading to say, About Intro to Culinary Arts.

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And then-- and this may be something that you have the ability to customize, or it may be something that your admin customizes and you don't. But because I had access to that Edit button, I know that I can come in here and customize this. I can put in my learning objectives.

But the Template is there so that I can just plug-in what I need to and not create this from scratch. So there's already these fun little icons that and-- the structure of having a heading, followed by information, followed by my grading scale and this cute little icon. I don't have to worry about setting any of that up. It's done for me. But I have the ability to come in and edit and customize.

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Dana scrolls through the editable body text, which is already populated with sections such as Objectives, Expectations, and Grading Scheme, with corresponding icons and place holder text in brackets. Dana clicks Save in the lower right, applying her changes.

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So when I come back to modules, I can come in here and customize. So I would want to put my information, so my students know how to contact me, when are my office hours, is it better to text or email.

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Dana clicks Modules in the white menu and mouses over the, About Your Instructor, item under Course Overview. Other items under Course Overview are titled, About This Course, Course Resources, and Course Q and A.

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I can come in About This Course, I can put the course days in the times. Maybe you have some resources that you want them to have access to all the time, like websites, or podcasts, or YouTube channels that will have a bunch of information. So you can put all of your resources in here.

So this course overview, I'm going to leave up here at the top. And then we have-- this is a Template. So this, again was pushed down by my admin. And it gives me a starting point. And I'm going to talk more about this when we're talking about Templates. But this is not something that I want my students to see because it's my Template to help me create content.

So I'm actually going to come over here and unpublish the module and all of the items that are inside of it, because this is not meant for students view.

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On a module called Learning Module 1, Dana clicks a checkmark icon near the right side, opening a dropdown menu. She clicks the option, Unpublished module and all items.

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It's only meant for me to use. And I'm going to use these three dots and move this module to the bottom. My students won't see it, so it doesn't matter on their view. But I want it at the bottom so it's out of my way. And when I need it, I'll go to the bottom and get it. But otherwise, I just want to see what my students are seeing.

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Dana clicks the three-dot icon on the module, then Move Module, then At the Bottom.

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So then we have this Canvas overview and resources for students. Now take a look at this over here. This is telling me that it's locked. So this is something that my admin has created and has locked because they don't want any modifications made to it. So I no longer have that Edit button.

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Dana expands a module titled, Canvas: Overview and Resources for Students. It lists one item, Canvas Resources for Students. Dana mouses over toward the right side of the item, gesturing toward the lock icon over the paper stack icon. She clicks the item, opening it. Instead of an Edit button in the upper right of the page, an icon reads, Locked.

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I don't have the ability to come in here and edit this page, OK. What I can do is I can unpublish it. So as an admin, remember that you might have something in there that you want to be a part of the course and you don't want any modifications to it.

But when it comes to actually having students see that page, the instructors do have the ability to unpublish it. So if it's something they should not unpublish that needs to be communicated. But I'm going to leave it published because this is a great-- this links out to Canvas resources where students can look at videos and how to guides on how to use canvas, and it will avoid questions that get directed to me. And they can go and take a look at that.

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Next to the Locked icon, Dana clicks a green checkmark button that reads, Published, which unpublishes the page. The button is now gray, with a cross-out icon and reads, Publish. Dana clicks the button again to publish the page.

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So I'm going to come back to Modules. So I'm going to-- and really, when I'm looking at these, there's kind of an overlap in some of these. And under this Need Help, Student Support, maybe that's my campus student support. So where do they go if they need to change classes? Where do they go if they need to inquire about upcoming courses or their course progression? In Campus Resources.

And this Canvas Resources for students, if that's going to be down here and my admin is locked it, then I'm going to go ahead and unpublish this one, so it's not duplicated. And I'm going to unpublish this header so that the students don't see that.

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Back in Modules, Dana mouses over the item, Canvas Resources for Students, that exits in two different modules, Need Help at the top, and Canvas: Overview and Resources for Students at the bottom. She clicks the green check icon next to the item in the Need Help module, unpublishing it and changing the icon to a gray cross-out symbol. She does the same with a header item above, which is titled, Canvas Resources.

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And if I just take a look at this Student view because I always like to look at things from the student's perspective so that I can see what they see.

I'm getting a tour. You can see that Need Help module only shows the Student Support and the Campus Resources.

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Dana clicks a Student View button in the upper right of the page. She closes out of info popups and scrolls through the Modules page as a student. Under Need Help, the only items listed are Student Support and Campus Resources.

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That's published for the students to view. But I unpublish the other two items so they don't even know they're there. I can still publish it later, if I want it, but it's not in my students view. They can see the course overview. They can see the Canvas overview for students, my welcome to class, my week one and my week two. So all of those are the things are published for students to view.

But if I come down here to the bottom, notice that I don't see that instruction-- instructors only module. I don't see the Template module because I hid all of those modules so my students don't get confused by what that is. It's just there for my use. So I'm going to leave Student view. So I'm back in my Instructor view.

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At the bottom right of the page, on a pink banner, Dana clicks Leave Student View.

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So again, these ones that are green, those are the ones that students can see. The students could not see these two items.

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Dana mouses over all the items in the Need Help module. The two published items in the module have green bars on their left sides. The two unpublished items do not.

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So I like to compress things when I'm working, so I'm going to come up here and collapse all. And I can see here that under the Welcome to class, your journey begins here. I do not have the ability to change this class overview. OK, so when I come in here this class overview is locked.

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Dana clicks Collapse All at the top of the page. She clicks a module called, Welcome to Class: Your Journey Begins Here, to expand it. The Class Overview item has a lock icon on it. Dana clicks the item, opening the page, which does not have an edit button. The body of the page has placeholder text like, About Name of Class, and a bulleted list under Learning Objectives, where each bulleted item just reads, Text.

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Now this is where I would contact my admin because it's locked. But this is all placeholder text. So is it supposed to be locked or is it supposed to be something that they were to create and they forgot or skipped over it?

Now the beauty is so say I'm the admin and I have this Intro to Culinary Arts and I have 10 different Canvas courses that are associated with this course. It could be 10 different teachers or it could be several different teachers that are teaching several sections. But I've got 10 courses now that has this mistake of the class overview page having just placeholder text, right.

But instead of now saying, oh, well, now everybody's going to have to do it themselves, as the admin, I can come back in. And so now I'm switching my hat and I'm in my admin role. I'm going to come back into the master Blueprint course. And I'm going to go into my modules.

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Dana clicks the Admin shield from the leftmost menu, then Dana's Sandbox. From the list of courses, she clicks BP 1.0 Intro to Culinary Arts, then clicks Modules from the white menu.

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And I'm going to come down to that Class Overview page. Again. I know it's locked. And as the admin, because I am the admin, I am in charge of this course, I'm going to unlock it.

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She clicks the Class Overview item under the Welcome to Class Module. A dark blue button next to the green published button reads, Locked. She clicks the button. It turns gray and now reads, Blueprint.

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And then I could do a couple of things right now. I could unlock it and then resync the Blueprint to all of the associated courses. And what that will do is then unlock it on the teacher's end, so they now have editing access. Or which is what I would probably do is I would keep it locked. But as the admin I do have the Edit button. And I can come in and I can put this course is an introductory course for our culinary arts pathway.

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Dana clicks the button again to re-lock the page. To the right of the green Published button, she clicks an Edit button available only admins. An editable version of the page opens, and she changes the placeholder text.

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It is required for all students in our culinary arts certificate program. So I can put in more. I can put in the class learning objectives. So knife skills, I can put in here basic kitchen sanitary dairy practices.

(DESCRIPTION)
She edits the class learning objectives to list actual objectives instead of just the word, Text.

(SPEECH)
I can put in seasoning and cooking. So you can, you know-- and then expectations, resources, my grading scheme. But what I'm going to do is, is I'm just going to put in this for now. So you can see that I've updated this page as the admin.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana edits the page heading from About Name of Class to say, About Culinary Arts.

(SPEECH)
And I'm going to get rid of this placeholder text so that you can just see the objectives. And because this is a Blueprint course as the admin-- now as a teacher, you don't have to do this. But as the admin, I've made this change on a locked page.

(DESCRIPTION)
After deleting more placeholder text, Dana clicks Save in the bottom right. On the finished version of the page, Dana clicks a blue tab on the right side of the screen toward the top, opening a blueprint pop-out.

(SPEECH)
So I can come up here to my Blueprint sync section. It has-- I can see it has-- it's connected to 1.1 and 1.2. And again, if you had 10 courses, you would see 10 courses listed here.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Associations on the pop-out, opening a page showing two associated courses, 1.1 and 1.2 Intro to Culinary Arts. The top of the page has a search field with optional dropdowns for term and sub-account. Dana closes the page.

(SPEECH)
And what I'm going to do here is I'm going to go ahead and sync this change.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks a blue Sync button on the blueprint pop-out.

(SPEECH)
And it's going to take a minute.

(DESCRIPTION)
A progress bar reads, This may take a bit.

(SPEECH)
And what it's doing is it's taking my changes and it's pushing those changes out to all of the associated courses. So if you have 30 courses, it will take a little bit. So this is something where you can have something in another screen going on, but yeah.

OK, so now it says it's synced. And so I'm going to come back as the teacher. So now I'm switching my hat again. I'm going to come into my Intro to Culinary Arts course.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Dashboard from the leftmost menu, then clicks the 1.2 Intro to Culinary Arts tile under the Unpublished Courses heading.

(SPEECH)
Notice that my welcome message and video is still there. So that was not deleted because I had the ability to edit this page. And when I come into modules, my changes are still there, right. I still have these three modules at the top. And I still have the modules down here at the bottom, right.

And when I come in here to the Class Overview, which initially had placeholder text, as the teacher, it has now been updated.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana goes to Modules in the white menu then opens the Class Overview item, which shows the changes she just made as admin. The heading now reads, About Culinary Arts, and three different items are listed under Class Learning Objectives.

(SPEECH)
So that's the benefit of the Blueprint is now I don't need to update this page because it's supposed to be consistent along all of the people teaching this class. And so the admin did it and pushed it out. But it's-- I do, when I come back to Modules have the ability to come in, and that was a Class Overview.

But now I can go in and customize my Instructor Information. This Class Resources is locked because that needs to be consistent for all of the people teaching this course, so I can't modify that. But I can come in here and take a look at the Class Question Board and modify that. And I know that because of these icons over here.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana goes back to modules and mouses over different items, gesturing to ones that have padlock icons and ones that don't.

(SPEECH)
So it's telling me that it's part of the Blueprint and what has been locked or left editable by my admin.

So I'm going to take a look at week one culinary arts. And again, you can see here that any Canvas items, so this engage, explore, expand, those are just text headers and you only see those in the module view.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana mouses over headings in the lists of items, which have no paper stack or lock icons.

(SPEECH)
So if I come in here to this Overview and To Do List, you can see that I have the ability to edit it. It does have content in there that I want to keep because that's what the admin put in, but I have the ability to edit my module to do list.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana opens the item, Module 1: Overview and To Do List. She gestures over the Overview text at the top of the page, then highlights, customize your to do list and pace for this module before student access, under the Model To Do List heading.

(SPEECH)
This is where I was talking about, if I customize my module to do list and put in what I'm doing in my class as activities, I have now broken that sync. So if my admin were to come into the master and change this overview, I would not get those updates because I have already modified this page, customized it because I had the ability to. And so it no longer will sync with the Blueprint. Only the locked pages will sync with the Blueprint.

So think about that too. As an admin, whatever you're pushing out that you're going to give teachers the ability to edit, know that you don't-- you've now lost that control over that item, so it needs to be finalized, OK. Hope that makes sense. And please put in questions, if I'm going too fast or something doesn't make sense. But I do have the ability to come in here into the Edit and I can-- so maybe we have different days, and so on my module to do list, I'm going to say-- and let me get rid of that formatting.

So I'm going to come over here to my three dots because that means that there are more options. And this one right here will clear any formatting, if I don't like it.

(DESCRIPTION)
In the toolbar above the editable body of the page, Dana clicks a three-dot icon, then a clear formatting button which has an eraser icon next to a T. Then she begins filling in text under the Module To Do List heading.

(SPEECH)
But I can come in here and say, on Monday, this is going to be in in-class presentation, bring your knives and textbook, right. And then say Tuesday, this is when I want them to participate in the online discussion.

Now the beauty with Canvas is this online discussion is in Canvas. So instead of telling them, go here, go here, go here, I can highlight this text, and I can come over here to the link and I can actually link that to another item in my course. So I'm going to click on Course link. And I know that this is a discussion. And I know it's our week one and kitchen safety discussion. So I'm going to click on that item.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana highlights, online discussion, in her to do list text. In the toolbar, she clicks an icon that resembles two chain links. She clicks Course Link in the dropdown. A pop-out opens on the right side of the screen. Dana expands a section titled Discussions and chooses a discussion titled, Group Discussion: Week 1 and Kitchen Safety.

(SPEECH)
And then I'm going to click out of my link there.

And you can see now that this is a link, so they can come in to this page at the beginning of the module and automatically just click on that link to go to the discussion instead of trying to figure out where it is. OK, so that's really nice thing to do.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks out of the pop-out. The text, online discussion, in the body of the page is now a link, indicated by an underline and blueish text color.

(SPEECH)
So again, you highlight what you want, and then-- you want them to click on. And then you come into the chain link icon here and you link to an area that's already in this course.

And so then Wednesday, and maybe this is different because maybe Wednesday is a holiday, who knows. But if I was a Tuesday, Thursday class, then that wouldn't be anything that I would put in my module to do list. So I have the ability to come in here and customize, OK. And then I can save. But as soon as I hit that save, if my admin changes something in the Blueprint for this overview part, I am not going to get those changes because I've just overwritten that sync and broken it.

The

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Save, applying her changes. On the finished version of the Overview and To Do List page, she scrolls to the bottom and clicks Next in the lower right. The next page, Module 1: Presentation on Kitchen Safety, is uneditable and locked.

(SPEECH)
next page is our presentation on kitchen safety. But notice it's locked. So this is something that my admin wants everybody to have in the course in a consistent content and a consistent flow. So I don't have the ability to change this, but I can come back here to Modules and that's this presentation on kitchen safety, maybe I have a YouTube video that really demonstrates some great kitchen safety. And I want to add it to my module. I can do that.

So I can customize this by coming up here to my module and adding the plus sign. And I can add either another Canvas assignment, a Canvas quiz. I can upload a file, or I can come down here to external URL.

(DESCRIPTION)
Back on the Modules page, Dana clicks a plus sign icon in the right side of the module title, Week 1: Introduction to Culinary Arts and Kitchen Safety. This opens a popup with a dropdown of item types. Dana chooses External URL from the dropdown, which causes a URL field to appear.

(SPEECH)
And I can paste that YouTube video. So I'm going to come over to YouTube and see if we can just find a video so I can show you how to do that. So culinary safety and sanitation.

(DESCRIPTION)
In a new browser tab, Dana searches YouTube.

(SPEECH)
Now, again, vet your videos, but this is a quick three minute video-- three and a half minute video on Introduction to food safety. And I want to show my students this video, but I don't want to have to tell them go to YouTube and search it and all of that. So I'm going to actually click into this video, so that I can come over here to the three dots. They've changed the way YouTube looks, by the way. And I don't-- Oh, here it is, this Share icon.

So I'm going to click on this Share icon. And I'm going to copy this link.

(DESCRIPTION)
On the YouTube video page, Dana clicks an arrow icon to the right of the video. A share popup opens. She clicks, Copy, next to the URL of the video in the popup.

(SPEECH)
OK, so I just copied that link, and now I can come back here and I can paste that link. And then here, I can put the name of the video Introduction to Food Safety, and I can tell them that that's on YouTube. Video.

(DESCRIPTION)
Back on the Canvas browser tab, Dana right clicks in the URL field and pastes in the video URL. In a Page Name field below, she identifies it as an introduction to food safety YouTube video. From an indentation dropdown below, she chooses Indent 1 Level, then clicks Add Item in the bottom right of the popup.

(SPEECH)
And I like to visually in the module view, indent things so that it pulls the students' attention to whatever it is. And now I can add that item.

Now it added it to the very bottom of my module. So I'm going to click on, I call these the railroad tracks.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana click an icon of two rows of dots on the left side of her newly-added item and drags it up in the module, placing it under the Presentation on Kitchen Safety item.

(SPEECH)
And I'm going to drag it up because I want it to come right after that presentation that I'm required to present because that's part of the Blueprint. But now I'm going to add this video.

And I'm going to publish it so that my students can see that link as well, OK.

(DESCRIPTION)
She clicks the gray cross-out icon on the right side of the video item, publishing it and changing the icon to a green checkmark.

(SPEECH)
That will be in my course. It may not be in section one or section three or section 10 because that teacher may not add it. But in my course, I can customize it and add that video for my students to watch, OK. This group you can see that it's open, so I can come in here and edit that if I wanted to. But let's take a look at this assignment.

So this assignment is locked. When I click on this assignment, yes, it's locked, but I have the Edit.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the item, Individual Assignment: Kitchen Safety Plan, which has a padlock icon. The open page has both a locked icon and Edit button near the top. A blue info box above, marked by a lowercase I, reads, Locked: Content and Points.

(SPEECH)
So this is where you need to pay attention as a teacher to this area up here. This is going to tell me what is locked because there are some things that I can still do. So what's locked is the content and the points, so I can't change that. So when I click on Edit, you'll notice that don't have the ability to change this content and I don't have the ability to come in here and change the points.

(DESCRIPTION)
When Dana clicks Edit, regions of the page are not editable. A field for points that lists, 20, is grayed out.

(SPEECH)
But I can change it to a different group for my gradebook. So maybe I want this to be under my formative assessments or individual assignments or something, you know. So you can create your own grading groups.

(DESCRIPTION)
Other fields below are white. Dana clicks a dropdown for Assignment Group and chooses Formative. She clicks a dropdown titled, Display Grade In, and choose, Complete/Incomplete.

(SPEECH)
So I'm going to put it under a formative. Maybe I want my students to see it as a complete or incomplete. They're either going to get the points or they're not. So even though it's worth 20 points, they're either going to get 20 points or 0 points, and I'm going to put that in there like that.

I can also come down here and change the way they submit their assignments. So right now they can write in Canvas or they can upload a file. But maybe I have some students that I really want to be able to record themselves and tell me their answers rather than writing it out or uploading it. So I can add that.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana scrolls down past more editable fields and options. Under Submission Type, she leaves a dropdown selection as, Online. On a list below, she leaves the items, Text Entry, and, File Uploads, checked. She checks an additional item titled, Video Recordings.

(SPEECH)
And I can come down here and change the date.

So I know that March 5 or March 6 is the holiday, and I want to give them that holiday to do the work. So I'm going to change my due date to the 7th.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana scrolls down further to a Due Date dropdown and changes the date on a calendar popup.

(SPEECH)
So even though, I didn't have the ability to change the assignment content or the assignment points, I did have the ability to customize the other items for my course and I can click on Save.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Save in the bottom right.

(SPEECH)
So one of the things you need to remember is if the admin then syncs information back over to Canvas, maybe this assignment changed or they needed to update the video, or maybe this Canvas resources link doesn't work and so they want to update that link so it works for everybody, then you need to come in and double check that all of your things that you customized are still intact because they could be overwritten by that sync, OK, because it does have locked portions.

But it kind of helps the admin control what needs to be consistent across all sections, but also gives the teacher the ability to customize for their course and their students. And then when I click on Modules again so that we can take a look at that week one module, you can see that the quiz safety is also locked. But again, it has the same ability where it could just be the due dates or it could just be the points or it could just be the questions, the content.

And then this module Wrap Up and Looking Ahead, when I look at this one, it's locked as well. And that's something that my admin wants me to maintain so that all the courses, all the students have that information.

(DESCRIPTION)
Back in Modules, Dana mouses over a padlocked quiz. She opens the module, Wrap-up and Looking Ahead, which is locked.

(SPEECH)
Any questions so far? And this is on Blueprints. I know it's a lot.

Now, when I came in here, the first time, we have week one and we have week two, right. When I come back to my-- as an admin, so I'm changing my hats. I'm going to come back as an admin. I'm going to come back to Dana's sandbox and go back into my Blueprint. And as an admin, I came in and under Modules, I added a third module.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the Admin shield, then Dana's Sandbox, then her blueprint course. She navigates to Modules in the white menu.

(SPEECH)
So we're working in module one. Next week my teachers are going to be working on Module two. I wanted to give them access to module three ahead of time so that they could go in and customize what they want to customize.

But I created module three. I created the items I wanted them to be able to edit, the things that needed to be locked. And then when I sync, and I already synced earlier because I showed you that change, it's going to push this entire module out to my courses so that, as a teacher, when I come back into my course, I have the ability to come into modules. And when I come down here to the bottom, you can see that now I also have week three that was synced when I did that earlier sync.

So

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Dashboard in the leftmost menu, then opens 1.2 Intro to Culinary Arts by clicking on a tile. She clicks Modules in the white menu, then scrolls to the bottom to a Week 3 item.

(SPEECH)
this is nice if you are writing the content as the semester progresses. Sometimes, we have to do that. It's not ideal, but sometimes we have to. And so setting it up as a Blueprint so that you could push that content out to the teachers, giving them enough time to then come in ahead of time and customize it, and then they can work on it with their students. And everybody has that consistent course progression. That's where Blueprints are really, really helpful. OK.

Now, I'm going to come back here to admin and we're going to take a look at a Template now.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the Admin shield, then Dana's Sandbox, opening the list of courses.

(SPEECH)
So when you get a new course and there's no Template-- this is a new course that was just created. And you can see that it has nothing in it, right. The only thing it has is a name. So as the teacher, if I want to customize this course, I have to come in and do several things.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the course, 2.2 Intro to Medical Front Office, opening an empty page that says, Create a new module.

(SPEECH)
So I'm going to show you a little bit of the process that I do as a teacher if I have a blank course, because you might get a blank course as a teacher as well. The first thing I want to do is I want to customize this tool-- the navigation bar, because if I look at this from a student's perspective-- so I'm clicking on student view-- there's a lot of things in here that I don't need.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana mouses over the white menu, then clicks Student View in the upper right of the page. The white menu in student view reads, Home, Discussions, Grades, People, Syllabus, BigBlueButton, Collaborations, Office 365, Zoom Meeting, Badges, Office 365, and Canva for Education.

(SPEECH)
You know, maybe we were a Google school and I don't need Office 365. What are badges? Why do we have Zoom meetings? We're meeting in person. You know, why do I have Office 365 twice. It's a lot of noise that can confuse our students.

So as the teacher, one of the first things I do when I come in to set up my course is I come down here to the very bottom and click on Settings.

(DESCRIPTION)
In teacher view, Dana scrolls down to the bottom of the white menu and clicks Settings. On the Settings Page, the selected tab reads, Course Details. A field at the top reads, Choose Image.

(SPEECH)
And it's nice to have an image. That's the image that shows up on the desktop. If not, it's just a color. So if I wanted to choose an image, what I usually do is make a-- so, for example, if I came back to my slideshow here, and I come here to OTAN. And maybe I want this slide to be my course image on my dashboard for my students, or let's do this. Let's have this one here, right.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana navigates to the Blueprints and Templates for Teachers slide in her presentation.

(SPEECH)
So if I'm in Google Slides or in Powerpoint, I can download this one slide as a picture. So I can come over here to File. And go to Download. And I'm going to choose one of these that say image, either JPEG or PNG, doesn't matter.

(DESCRIPTION)
With her Google Slides prevention open, Dana clicks File in the upper left, Download, then PNG. A download icon appears in the top of Dana's browser.

(SPEECH)
So it's going to download that for me. You can see that it downloaded it here. So I can come back to my Canvas course and choose that image, that first title slide as my image for my course. So here it is right here.

(DESCRIPTION)
Back on the Canvas browser tab, Dana clicks the Choose Image button, then Upload Image, then chooses the slide image from her file directory.

(SPEECH)
So now that's what that slide, and if I come down here and save, I'll show you what it looks like on the dashboard.

(DESCRIPTION)
At the bottom of the page, Dana clicks, Update Course details. She clicks Dashboard in the leftmost menu. The course does not appear on the dashboard page.

(SPEECH)
So now you can see-- where did it go? Here, well, oh, because I'm not a teacher in that course, that's why. So let's come back here to the admin. And let's open that course from here. So that was this one. Yes, this is that blank course.

So on the dashboard it will have that the OTAN Blueprints and Templates picture as its course card.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana switches back to admin mode then navigates to the course and its settings again. The slide image is displayed on the Course Details tab under settings.

(SPEECH)
The other thing that I do is I come over here to navigation. So again, I'm down here at the very bottom in settings.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks another tab on the settings page titled Navigation. The page reads, Drag and drop items to reorder them in the course navigation, above a long list of menu items like Home, Announcements, and Assignments. A section below reads, Drag items here to hide them from students.

(SPEECH)
And I come over here to navigation and look at all of these things that will show for the students that is just not necessary. So if I were setting up a course from scratch, I would have to come in here and manually drag each one of these down, if I don't want my students to see it.

So drag items here to hide them from students. So that's what I'm doing.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana drags items from the top section into the bottom section.

(SPEECH)
I don't want them to see any of this stuff. The only thing I want them to see, because I'm having them work through modules, so I don't even need-- So I'm going to leave modules, but I don't need to have them see quizzes or rubrics or outcomes because they're going to access all of those things from modules. So no pages, people, I do want them to see grades. Discussions, they'll get in modules. Assignments, they'll get in modules.

So these are the only five things I want them to see on their navigation.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Save at the bottom of the page, then clicks Home in the white menu.

(SPEECH)
So when I save that and I come home. And I look at this now from the student's perspective. Now they only see three. They don't see modules yet because I haven't made any. As soon as I make a module and publish it, then they'll see modules here too.

(DESCRIPTION)
The white menu in student view now lists only Home, Grades, and Syllabus.

(SPEECH)
But look at how much cleaner that is for your students.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana exits Student View, displaying the empty course page.

(SPEECH)
So I'm doing all of these things to set up my course. So now I need to create a Home page and I need to make it look nice. And then I need to come over here and set it as my Home page.

(DESCRIPTION)
She mouses over a menu item on the right side of the screen that says, Choose Home Page.

(SPEECH)
Then I need to come into modules and I need to start creating my modules and I have to do that intro to the course and the Canvas for students and all of those things. It could take me a couple of hours just to get my course set up before I ever start putting in content. That's what happens when you have just a blank course.

But as an admin, I've set it up so that any time a new course is created, it will pull in this Template that will give my teachers a starting point.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Admin, then Dana's Sandbox. She mouses over an item on the course list titled, Adult Ed Template 2023.

(SPEECH)
So here's a new course, same course as intro to medical front office. But it was created when the Template was applied to that-- this sub account so that when the course was created it automatically pulled in that Template. And so look at what I'm starting with as opposed to the other one.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the course, 2.1 Intro to Medical Front Office. The course home page has a banner and placeholder text for a course title. It has a welcome message and navigation tip section below. The white menu has a handful of items.

(SPEECH)
So already my navigation bar is cleaned up, so they'll see announcements, homes, grades. I don't want them to see badges. So I'll go in and change that. But that's one thing that I'm dragging instead of 20, right. Less clicks means more time. I also already have a front page that looks nice. And I can come in here and customize this because remember, now that it's in my course, it's mine. My admin doesn't have the ability to push any content down anymore. I get to customize this.

So now I can come in here, click on, edit and place my course title here. So I'm going to get rid of this placeholder text and put Introduction to Front-- Medical, oh, if I could spell today-- Front office.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Edit in the upper right and begins changing the placeholder text and other elements of the page. The banner image shows a view of a desk with laptop, notebook, pens, and other items.

(SPEECH)
This picture right here doesn't really have anything to do with medical front office. So what I did, I'm going to click on this picture. You can see it says image options. And I'm going to delete it. I can either just delete it because it didn't have anything to do with the course, and it was kind of weird. Or I could put in my own.

And so I've created this banner here in Google. So again, this is Google Slides. And what I did is I came down to Page Setup. And I made it so that it was custom, 11 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches. That's kind of a standard banner size.

(DESCRIPTION)
After deleting the banner image, Dana navigates to a Goole Slides browser tab, which shows a custom banner she created for the Medical Office Class. It has the class name and a photo of people at a front desk. She clicks File, then Page Setup at the bottom of the dropdown. She mouses over fields for page dimensions.

(SPEECH)
And then what I did is I came in and I created something that looks more like a medical front office class. And because I'm on this slide, when I go to, again, to download this as an image-- either JPEG or PNG, it doesn't matter-- now I have a new banner that I can use. So now I can come into my home page.

(DESCRIPTION)
As before, Dana downloads the slide as an image. She navigates back to the Canvas browser tab, where she is editing the course home page. She clicks an Image icon in the toolbar.

(SPEECH)
And instead of that banner that was there, I can now upload a new banner by clicking on Images and uploading that image that I just downloaded to my computer.

So I'm going to click on this spaceship. And there it is right there, banner.

(DESCRIPTION)
In the popup, Dana clicks Upload Image, and chooses the class banner from her file directory.

(SPEECH)
And it's a decorative image. So if somebody's using a screen reader, they don't even need to know that image is there. So I'm going to check this box that says decorative image and click on Submit.

(DESCRIPTION)
Under a field for Alt Text, Dana checks a box that says Decorative Image, then clicks Submit. Now the editable page displays Dana's custom banner at the top.

(SPEECH)
And so now I have a banner that reflects my course, a little bit better. So then I can come in and I can get rid of this placeholder text and put my welcome message, this navigation tip. I've got brand new students to Canvas. I'm going to leave this here so that it's clear. But if I was teaching a course where my students had been using Canvas for a while, I might just get rid of that navigation tip. I might not need it.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana scrolls to the bottom of the body text. Different shapes say, Course Overview, Learning Modules, Course Q and A, and Need Help?

(SPEECH)
These images, these are just images that have been put in for me with the Template and I can keep them. And when you've got an image like this, you can make it a button by clicking on it and then clicking on the link here. So I'm actually going to remove the link here so that you can see how I would do that.

(DESCRIPTION)
One by one, Dana clicks the shapes, then clicks, Remove Link from a menu that appears above each one.

(SPEECH)
So course overview, knowing that there's a page in my course that does this course overview, I'm going to link this image to that page. So I'm going to click on this link and this is a link that's inside my course.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the first shape, which says Course Overview, then clicks the chainlink icon in the toolbar. She clicks Course Link in the dropdown. In the pop-out that appears on the right side of the screen, she expands a section called Pages.

(SPEECH)
And I know it's a page, so I'm going to expand the list of pages that are in this course. And there's a lot, but no, this one's called About This Course.

(DESCRIPTION)
She selects the page from the list. Here selected image briefly highlights in yellow.

(SPEECH)
OK, so I'm going to click on that page. And now it's an image and it's a link, OK. Learning modules, so I'm going to click on my learning modules image. And that's actually not a page. So I'm going to collapse my pages. That's actually either I can take them to a specific module, so if I expanded this, I could go to a specific module in here or my modules is part of my navigation over here, right.

So I'm going to go to course navigation and I'm going to have this image right here, link to my modules, navigation.

(DESCRIPTION)
She repeats the process for the second shape, Learning Modules, and expands the section on the pop-out titled, Navigation. She scrolls down and selects Modules. The shape briefly turns yellow.

(SPEECH)
So now you can see it's a link. Course Q&A, maybe I'm not going to do that, so I'm just going to click on that image and hit Delete and get rid of it because I'm not going to use that right. But if they need help, I need them to be able to contact our help desk and that's on our website.

So maybe I'm going to click on Need Help. Again, it's an image. I'm going to come over here to my links and that's where I'm going to take them outside of Canvas and direct them to our website. So maybe click on External link and I type in here http://www.otan.net, I believe. Maybe that's where I want them to go. So I'm going to put in the actual website that's outside of Canvas.

(DESCRIPTION)
After deleting the third shape, Dana clicks the last shape, Need Help, then the link icon in the toolbar. From the dropdown, she selects External Link. She types a URL into a field on the Insert Link popup that appears.

(SPEECH)
So now all three of these images have become buttons.

And then I can come down here, and my students don't need-- this is for my, you know, I need to know that, my students don't. So I'm going to delete that.

(DESCRIPTION)
She deletes text about template asset licensing from the bottom of the page, then clicks Save.

(SPEECH)
And then when I click on save, you'll see that this has been customized for my class. And if I click on Course overview, it will take me to the course overview page. If I go back and I click on learning modules that will take me to my modules view.

And if I go back and I click on need help and I click on that, it takes me out of Canvas and puts me at a website that I don't need. So I need to change that link, which I can do. So it's not otan.net.

(DESCRIPTION)
On the course homepage, Dana clicks her three shape buttons. The first two navigate to the appropriate pages, but the Need Help button opens a new browser tab of a yellow page with an Under Construction icon at OTAN dot net.

(SPEECH)
Let me get that correct. OTAN, well, it's not OTAN.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana types OTAN in her browser navigation bar, and nothing autofills in.

(SPEECH)
Let's try scoe.net. Let's try the Sacramento County Office of Ed page, OK.

So I'm going to actually-- So I don't type it in wrong. I'm going to copy that email address-- sorry, that web address. I'm going to come back here, go back into Edit.

(DESCRIPTION)
With the S.C.O.E. browser tab open, Dana copies the URL from the navigation bar. She goes back to the Canvas browser tab and clicks Edit on her course home page.

(SPEECH)
That's my Need Help button. I'm going to remove that link so that I can come back and put on the correct link that works. So I always check things before I open it up to my students.

(DESCRIPTION)
She clicks her last button image and clicks Remove Link. She inserts the new link by pasting it into the Insert Link popup. She clicks Save.

(SPEECH)
But now my home page is done. And so notice that I've already started working on content rather than setting my course up because the course, has already been set up. And when I come into modules, again, this administrator module, if I don't need that, this is for my administrator, I can click on these three dots for the module and I can delete that module. And yes, I want to delete the module.

(DESCRIPTION)
In Modules, Dana clicks the three-dot icon on the module, Administrator Module (Remove Prior To Template Distribution), then clicks Delete.

(SPEECH)
Here's the instructor module. So this is for me as the instructor. It tells me how I can customize, it tells me how I can put in some icons and banners, which I just showed you. It gives me resources for instructors, but notice that it's not published for my students to see. It's only for me. So I'm going to minimize that.

(DESCRIPTION)
On the Instructor Module, Dana mouses over a gray cross-out icon on the module title, indicating that it is not published.

(SPEECH)
But now I can come in and this student support campus resources.

Hopefully, this has been customized before it was pushed out as the Template, but it might not if you are working at different campuses. So maybe everybody in your adult school is using this Template, but you have different student support or campus resources depending on which school you're teaching at. So maybe you do need to go in and update that, but you could just come in and update that as you need.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana collapses the Need Help module and mouses over the Course Overview module.

(SPEECH)
This is where you can customize about the course. So remember that About This Course page that we linked to this is all placeholder text.

(DESCRIPTION)
She opens the About This Course page, which has many sections of placeholder text.

(SPEECH)
So because this is a Template, even though there might be multiple sections, it's not a Blueprint. I am going to have to, as an instructor, come in and customize this page. So that's where I can come in. But the nice thing is all I have to do is customize it. So this is front office-- no, front-- what did I call it? Medical Front Office.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Edit on the page, changes the title, and begins making other tweaks.

(SPEECH)
I'm going to plug-in the name of my course. I'm going to come in here and read these messages to me. I'm going to get rid of the placeholder text and I'm going to, you know, whether I'm copying it from the course description and putting it in here, or maybe it's my own description, I'm going to type in my medical front office description. I'm going to get rid of the placeholder text and put in the class objectives, the expectations that I have.

You know, you must-- you can only miss two days. You have to do your internship. All assignments must be turned in within three days of the due date. Whatever your course expectations are, you can plug those in. You can plug-in your grading scheme. But you can come in here and customize this for you and your course and then save it. But you didn't have to format it. You didn't have to find those icons. They're already there.

And if that one for grading scheme, I don't like it, the nice thing is, is I maybe I want to put one here too for class learning objectives. I can come up, put my cursor where I want it to go. And I can come up to the image icon and I can take a look at the images that are already in this course that don't have to create, I don't have to go and find. They've been-- they're part of the Template.

(DESCRIPTION)
After saving her changes once, Dana begins editing again. She places her cursor before Class Learning Objectives in the body text and clicks the image icon in the toolbar, then Course Images from the dropdown, opening a right-side pop-out. Dana scrolls past images and icons in the pop-out.

(SPEECH)
And so I can look over here and these don't really fit. But as I get down here, here's some more icons. So I've got a star. There's a puzzle. There's maybe some of these are a little bit more appropriate for a class learning objective. So I'm going to put this checklist right here. So when I click on that and I close out, I now have a cute little icon there that I didn't have to go and create.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the checklist icon, inserting it before Class Learning Objectives. She closes the pop-out. She mouses over an icon below the box of editable body text. The icon depicts a human silhouette and has a numeral 1 floating over it.

(SPEECH)
I do want to bring your attention here to this Accessibility Checker. So just put in this icon and this one came up. So I'm going to click on that icon and it's because the Alt text for that image is the name of the image, and you're not-- that's not accessible. So I'm going to get rid of that. And I'm also going to say this is decorative. If somebody is using a screen reader, they don't need to know that icon there, that is for my visual learners, not my auditory learners.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the icon, which opens an Accessibility Checker pop-out that has an alt text field. Below, Dana checks a box that says, Decorative image, then clicks Apply in the bottom right of the pop-out.

(SPEECH)
So I'm going to mark it as decorative and click on Apply. And so now when I take a look that notification on my Accessibility Checker is gone.

(DESCRIPTION)
In the editable body of the page, she selects a lightbulb icon next to the Grading Scheme section.

(SPEECH)
And this grading scheme again, if I wanted to put a different one there, I could delete that image and go back and insert an image of those icons that have already been uploaded for me to use. I don't have to create those. I can upload my own images, but I don't have to for these icons because they've already been created for me.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Save.

(SPEECH)
So now I can come in and customize this. And the visual layout, the visual structure, the visual chunking is already there for me. And if I just kind of maintain that, I'm just copying and pasting my content. And it saves a ton of time for your teachers and for myself.

So if I click on Next, and this is a page where I'm supposed to, you know, talk about me, I can come in here and edit. I can get rid of this placeholder image by deleting it. And then this is where I could upload from my computer, I believe, I have a picture in here. I'm going to put this one in because it's fun. It's not a profile picture, but I'm going to put it in just so that you can see. I can upload my own pictures, right.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Next on the finished page, navigating to an About Your Instructor page with placeholder images and text. She clicks Edit and deletes a placeholder image that reads, Replace with Your Image. She clicks the photo icon in the toolbar, then Upload Image from the dropdown. She clicks Upload Image in the popup, then chooses an images in her file navigation. She inserts a picture of a man holding a boombox and other electronics, with the text, Everything in this picture is now in your pocket.

(SPEECH)
So for those of you who are my generation, everything in this picture is now in your pocket because it's your cell phone. But you can upload your own picture. You can plug-in your name. You can plug-in a mini biography. But the structure is already here for you. This is where you're going to put in your contact information, delete-- I don't have office hours. So I'm going to get rid of that.

And it's not really a telephone. I want them to be able to text me. So I'm going to change that.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana scrolls down to a Contact Information section, deletes Office Hours and changes Telephone to Text.

(SPEECH)
So you can customize. Again, here's my little Accessibility Checker. And it's telling me that this is a picture name. It has PNG on the end. So I'm going to-- I do want the Alt text to say that, but I'm going to take off the dot PNG so it's accessible and then that will go away.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks an Accessibility Checker notification again, opening the pop-out. The alt text field is pre-populated with the text from the image with PNG appended to the end. She delete the dot PNG from the alt text field and clicks Apply.

(SPEECH)
Here's another trick. Click on the image. What I'm going to come over here to my alignment and I'm going to put that image on the right. And wrap the text to the left. And so now I can come in here and put my name. My name is on the left and I can put in my biography here, type that in. I can come down here and put in my text.

(DESCRIPTION)
With the image selected, Dana clicks an alignment icon, represented by horizontal lines, in the toolbar. She clicks Right Align. The image moves to the right side of the page, leaving room for text on the left.

(SPEECH)
So they can text me. I can put in my email address, my website, and any additional contact information maybe my, you know, if we have an Instagram handle or whatever.

But when I click on Save, now my image is on the right and my text is on the left. If I don't want that, then I would go in and remove that right alignment. But I customize that page and then click on Next, these are course resources. So you can plug-in links, YouTube videos, podcasts, whatever. But again, the visual structure is there. So you're just coming in and plugging stuff in.

(DESCRIPTION)
After saving her changes, Dana clicks Next at the bottom of the finished page, navigating to a Course Resources page with sections for About, and Top 5 Frequently Requested Resources, among others.

(SPEECH)
It saves so much time.

And then the other thing that at least this Template does is it will give you a structure for your content. So if you are creating a module for a unit, then you can start off with the overview and to do list and then go into a presentation and then maybe have an online discussion, maybe have individual assignment. But you're not-- you don't have to use this. If you have a different way of how you want to structure your module, that's fine.

So I'm going to leave and I'm not going to publish because I don't want my students to see this is a Template. So I'm just going to unpublish the module. So they don't see any of these things.

(DESCRIPTION)
Back in Modules, Dana clicks the green checkmark icon on the module title, Learning Module 1, and selects, Unpublish Module Only,

(SPEECH)
But what I do want is I'm going to come up here and create a new module, and this is going to be my week one Introduction to Medical Front Office.

(DESCRIPTION)
At the top of the page, Dana clicks a plus sign button that reads, Module. In a popup, she enters the module name. A section below is titled, Prerequisites. She clicks Add Module in the popup. The blank module with no items sits at the bottom of the modules page.

(SPEECH)
And I'm going to add that module. And it always adds your modules to the bottom, OK.

Now I do know that I want to start off my module with an overview and to do list. And when I look at this overview and to do list, it already has all of the stuff in there. So this is the key thing about Templates and even Blueprints. If you add, I'm just going to add a new page that I want to be my week one intro and to do, right, let's just say.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks a plus sign on the right side of the module titled, opening a popup. She selects, Page, from the dropdown, then names it. She clicks Add Item in the bottom right of the popup.

(SPEECH)
So in my mind, I'm thinking I want this to be my intro and to do list very much like my Template has set up.

But when I open up this page to now put in my content, notice, it's completely blank. There's no structure there. There are no visual elements there. There's nothing there that I can just plug my information into. I'm having to create this from scratch. And I don't want to do that. It's too time consuming.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks her newly created page. Open, the page has a title but is otherwise completely blank.

(SPEECH)
So I'm going to use the Template because that's been given to me. I'm going to actually delete this page because I'm going to use the Template page instead.

And this is what I'm going to do.

(DESCRIPTION)
She clicks the three-dot icon in the upper right of the page and clicks Delete.

(SPEECH)
I'm going to come back to Modules. I'm going to-- even though, I might not have this structure, I'm going to use the Template pages in here to get me started. But if I just move this page down to my module and change it, then don't have that as a Template anymore. So it's very much like Google, where I can come over here to the three dots, and I can click on Duplicate.

In Google. you do make a copy. In Word, you do Save As, right? You're just-- you're going to take this page that already has all of these elements on it and you're going to duplicate it.

(DESCRIPTION)
In Modules, Dana clicks the three-dot icon on the Module 1: Overview and To Do List item. She clicks Duplicate from the dropdown. A copy of the item appears, with the word, Copy, appended to its name.

(SPEECH)
So notice that it's duplicated. It ends with the word copy. It is not published. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this page with my railroad tracks. And I'm going to drag it down here to my week one module.

Now I can come in here to the page and all of that stuff is there, so don't have to recreate it. I can just come in and edit.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana drags the copy down into her recently-created module. She clicks the new page, which is populated with all the text and sections of the original To Do List, and clicks Edit.

(SPEECH)
And instead of module one, I want this to say week one overview and to do list. I'm going to get rid of the word copy. I'm going to come in and give an overview. This week, we are focusing on the position of front office medical staff, you know, yada, yada, yada. I'm going to give a to do list.

So you're going to review week one because it's not-- I changed it from module. You're going to read chapter one, you're going to join the-- you know, whatever you're going to do. But you can come in here and customize this. And then I'm going to Save and Publish so that my students can see it.

(DESCRIPTION)
After editing, Dana clicks a button that says Save and Publish in the bottom right of the page.

(SPEECH)
And that page is done with the visual elements and didn't have to mess with it, OK.

So now I'm going to come back to Modules and the first thing that I want them to do actually is research. So I don't have a page in here that's too research. There's a wrap up and looking ahead, there's a presentation, or there's the overview and to do list. I'm going to go ahead and duplicate, this presentation page.

(DESCRIPTION)
Back in Modules, Dana clicks the three-dot icon next to an item titled Presentation and duplicates it. She drags it down into her newly-created module.

(SPEECH)
I'm going to drag it down to my modules and then I'm going to come in here and customize it to be my research instructions.

So I'm going to come here and edit and instead of presentation title, I'm going to say week one, let's do some research, right. And so instead of instruction, I want to say these are your directions.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the duplicated page and clicks Edit. She makes changes so that the page describes research instructions rather than presentation instructions.

(SPEECH)
And I know that instead of a book, there's another icon in there that I like. So I'm going to delete the book.

I'm going to come back here to my images, and I'm going to check out my course images. These are the ones that are already in my course. And I know there's one down here that looks like a directional sign. Here we go, right here. So I'm to put that in there instead.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana delete an image next to Directions. She places her cursor before Directions, clicks the image icon in the toolbar, selects Course Images, then scrolls down the images and icons to a street sign icon. She selects it.

(SPEECH)
And I see my little man, so I'm going to click on my little man and make this decorative so that it is not showing up to my screen readers.

(DESCRIPTION)
She clicks the Accessibility Checker icon and selects the Decorative Image box for the street sign icon.

(SPEECH)
Then I'm going to put in here, this is all placeholder text, so I'm going to get rid of this. I'm going to hit Delete. I'm going to come here and, you know, spend about one hour researching LinkedIn and Indeed for positions that indicate they are looking for front office medical staff. So I'm going to give them instructions here or directions. And then I'm going to come in here and instead of saying main point heading, I'm going to say, what did you find.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana continues tweaking the text to apply to the research project.

(SPEECH)
And then I'm going to give them instructions on, you know, think about what you found, what are the skills that you found were common and, you know, give them instructions on what they're looking for. So I can come in here and customize this. And then I can give them, you know, maybe some other links, maybe some YouTube videos. But there's my let's do some research page. And so now I'm going to save that and publish it for my students.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Save and Publish.

(SPEECH)
But again, instead of having to start over from scratch with a blank page, I used one that already existed and just plugged in my content, maybe switched out an icon or so, so that it saved me a ton of time. So I am focusing on developing content rather than making things look pretty because the Template already does that for me. The key is that you need to start by duplicating these items that came with the Template.

So if I wanted to do an assignment that students were turning in, I would duplicate this one instead of creating a new assignment from scratch.

(DESCRIPTION)
In Modules, Dana mouses over an item called Individual Assignment.

(SPEECH)
If I wanted to give a quiz, I would-- actually, quizzes you can't duplicate. If come over here, you can see here that there's no ability to duplicate a quiz.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks the three-dot icon next to a quiz item, showing that there is no Duplicate option in the dropdown.

(SPEECH)
New quizzes you can. So that one you would have to start from scratch. But all of the other items, if you duplicate it, you can start from there.

So I want an individual assignment. I want them to turn in their, you know, what they are found in their research. So I'm going to come over here and I'm going to duplicate this assignment. The difference between a page and assignment is that a page and an assignment look exactly the same, but the assignment gives the students the ability to submit something into Canvas, and it ties it to your gradebook. So think through what you're doing. If it's informational only, do a page. But if it's information and you want them to respond with something, do an assignment.

OK, don't do an assignment, if it's just meant to give them information and tasks and instruction, because then it puts a column in your gradebook and it can get kind of messy. But if you want them to get a grade for it or you want them to have a due date or points or, you know, be able to submit something to Canvas, then do an assignment. So I'm going to duplicate this assignment.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana uses the three-dot icon to duplicate an assignment, then drags the copy down into her newly-created module.

(SPEECH)
And then I'm going to move this down. And then I'm going to click on it.

(DESCRIPTION)
She opens the new assignment copy, which has sections like Assignment Overview, Guidelines, and Technical Support all filled in.

(SPEECH)
Notice that it's already got the structure. And the nice thing is like this technical support, I want that on every Canvas page because that's going to help my students go find answers to their questions without having to ask me first. Maybe I've got guidelines for my assignments that I want on every assignment, so then I can customize this. And every time I duplicate it, I don't have to retype in those guidelines. It's already there.

The only thing that going to change is my assignment overview. So I can come in and I can edit, and I can get rid of the placeholder text.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Edit, then begins deleting placeholder and making changes to the assignment.

(SPEECH)
And I can put in my assignment overview. I can put in my assignment guidelines, and then I can come down here and customize my points, my assignment group that it's going to be associated with, how I want them to see points in their gradebook, how I want them to be able to turn it in, how many times-- these settings right here are specific to assignments.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana scrolls down past the body of the page, to settings like Points, Assignment Group, Display Grade In, Submission Type, and Submission Attempts.

(SPEECH)
Pages don't have this. Pages only have this area up here that provides information.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana scrolls back up to the editable page body.

(SPEECH)
So if I save this, you'll notice that it still-- I would need to come back in and edit and give it a different title. I forgot to do that. Maybe-- so you can always come back in. And so this is going to be our week one research assignment, OK.

And they're going to come in here and use the Canvas Upload Record Media button to record your findings from your research on LinkedIn and indeed. Be sure to speak as if you were speaking to your supervisor. Professional language and complete sentences. We want to give them those interview skills. I recommend you-- you write a script of what you want to say before recording.

OK, so I want them to record their answer. And this is another great thing about assignments, and then I'll give them guidelines, under two minutes, whatever. So when I save and publish this, and let me come back to Modules and make sure that this module is published. Because if the module is not published, then it doesn't matter, and it's not. So if this module is not published, even though the assignment and the items in here are published, the students will not see it.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana saves her changes, then goes back to Modules. Her recently-created module is not published, as indicated by the gray cross-out icon on the module title. She clicks the gray icon, then selects Publish module and all items.

(SPEECH)
So I'm going to publish the module and all the items. And then I'm going to come in and look at this from my student's perspective. I'm going to come down here to the bottom and here's that assignment. OK, I'm going to click on that assignment. And now as a student, I have my overview. I have my guidelines. I'm going to come over here and I can either text, upload, studio, or more.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Student View in the upper right, then scrolls through the model items to select her newly-created assignment. Under the body text of the assignment, text reads, Choose a submission type, above icons for Text, Upload, Studio, and More. Dana clicks More, bringing up a dropdown which lists CK-12, Google Assignments, and Microsoft Office 365.

(SPEECH)
And more the things that you have connected.

So I'm going to click on Text because it's in-- and this is something that you would work with your students. This is where they would find that Record Upload Media. Now I could also check the box that says record yourself and that's actually what I should do. Let's do that. I'm going to leave student view.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana click the Text icon, which opens a text box below. She clicks the video and music note icon in the toolbar, opening a dropdown. She clicks Leave Student View in the pink ribbon at the bottom of the page.

(SPEECH)
This is why I like student view because as I think through this from the students perspective, that was confusing.

So I'm going to come in here to edit. I'm going to come down here to how I want them to submit, and I don't want them to submit a text or be able to submit a file. I want them to record themselves.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana edits the assignment, and unchecks boxes next to Text Entry and File Uploads under Submission Type. She text a box next to Media Recordings.

(SPEECH)
So now just by changing that checkbox, when I look at this from the students perspective, when I come down here, I can record media or I can upload media. Those are my only two options.

(DESCRIPTION)
In student view, Dana scrolls to the bottom of the assignment. Icons say Record Media and Upload Media.

(SPEECH)
So I've now made this easier for my students to be successful because I clarified those checkboxes.

So now as a student, I can come in here and again, if I don't have a webcam, I'm still creating a podcast. And I can record and practice my presentation skills, practice my public speaking skills, and also tell you what I learned about the research that I did.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana clicks Record. In a popup, a bar fluctuates with her voice. A button below says, Start Recording.

(SPEECH)
And it will all be saved to Canvas so that when you come in-- and then they'll submit their assignment. And then when you come as in as a teacher and go into speed grader, you can then listen to their submission.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana closes the popup, then mouses over Submit Assignment in the lower right of the page. She exits student view.

(SPEECH)
So that's the beauty of assignments versus pages is that you can collect that data, collect that, that student work.

Yes, very much, Bill. And the question was, or not question, the statement was that it reminds you about how Google Classroom works. Very much. It's a learning management system. It's meant to get students engaged in the platform so that they have alternate ways of turning in work rather than just submitting a piece of paper. And it gives you the ability to really see your students in a different perspective because now you're listening to them.

This might be a student that's super quiet in class. You can never get them to volunteer to speak or anything like that. But if you do an assignment like this in Canvas where they are speaking their response, that gives you that ability to understand and evaluate their speaking, especially if that's part of your standards. And it takes that kind of I don't want to speak in front of my peers pressure off of your students. So UDL, blended learning, this is all-- this is why we use Canvas even though we're back in person, right.

So really, the difference between Blueprints and Templates from the teacher's perspective is that you have more control over Templates of what you can modify whereas with Blueprints, your admin has more control of the content and provides you access to the things that you can modify, keeping that consistency.

But the way that you work in canvas, how you edit things-- so even if I were coming into the Blueprint course, so I'm going to come back to my dashboard. Remember the Blueprint course where these Culinary Arts courses, right.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana goes to Dashboard from the leftmost menu. She clicks the tile for the 1.2 Intro to Culinary Arts course. She goes to Modules from the white menu.

(SPEECH)
I am going to supplement-- so the week one, week two, week three, that's all being pushed out by my admin. And you know, there are things that I can do and things that I can't do, but I'm going to take this module one overview and to do list, and I'm going to duplicate it.

And notice that when it's duplicated, it is not part of the Blueprint. So

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana uses the three-dot icon to duplicate an item called Module 1: Overview and To Do List. The item copy does not have the stacked papers icon, but the original item does.

(SPEECH)
it's not going to get erased. It's not going to get overwritten. It's not going to get updated. It's mine. But what I can do here is maybe this is where I want-- after the presentation on kitchen safety before and after they watch the video, I want them to do something else. So I am supplementing the content that's being pushed out.

(DESCRIPTION)
Dana drags the duplicated item down the list of items in the module, placing it after the Introduction to Food Safety video.

(SPEECH)
But instead of starting with a blank page, I'm going to take a page that's already in there that already has the structure and edit it. So this isn't the overview and this is going to be my research, right. And so instead of overview, I'm going to do directions. And instead of, you know, well, I'm going to come in here and research on LinkedIn and, you know, yada yada, yada.

I can update that. And then instead of module to do list, this is going to be what do you notice, what do you wonder.

(DESCRIPTION)
After clicking the duplicated item and Edit, Dana makes changes to the page, which is already populated with the sections and text from the To Do List page. She clicks Save.

(SPEECH)
So I can come in and update this page, even though it wasn't intended to be an intro and next steps, but it has the visual elements that I want. And so I can just go in and duplicate it and then plug-in my content without having to redo all of that starting from scratch bit, OK. Any questions?

Really, as a teacher, it's how do you edit something that's been gifted to you, right. You've been given something that has content structure and visual elements on it. How do you recreate that and keep that consistency. And the key is you duplicate. Duplicate and then modify instead of starting from scratch. And then the difference between Blueprints and Templates is just how much you can control, how much you have the ability to modify and customize. And other than that, as a teacher, it's really focusing on the content and getting that so that it meets your needs and your students' needs.

Any questions. And I know this is a lot. I do believe the recording will be made available so that you can go back and watch and pause and do again and skip and whatever the case may be. If you don't have a pre-made Template, what you need to do or what you can do is come over here to Commons.

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Dana clicks an arrow icon that says Commons in the leftmost menu.

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And we kind of covered this yesterday. If you're in Canvas and you're part of the OTAN collaborative, you can come into Canvas.

And you can come over here and filter all the way down at the bottom for OTAN. And you can see here that there are some things in here already. The admin training, there should be a Template.

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A search page is populated with course tiles. Dana clicks a filter button in the upper right. In the pop-out that appears, she scrolls down and checks a bubble next to, OTAN - California Adult Education Courses. She scrolls down tiles of courses and pages.

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Let me see if there's a different filter instead of OTAN. Oh, it's the California Adult Education Campus Common. Sorry, not OTAN. So hopefully, you'll see this one, California Adult Education, if you're part of the collaborative.

And this is where you can see that 2023 Template.

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Dana changes the filter, selecting California Adult Education Canvas Commons from the pop-out. A tile with a laptop photo is titled, Course, CA Adult Education 2023. Custom Template. Dana mouses over it.

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So that's the one that I was using. You just come in here and you either import it into-- if I click on Import and I search for a course, you can see if I search-- oh, there it is. I can import it into my Medical Front Office course.

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Dana clicks the tile, then Import/Download on the right side of the screen. In a pop-out, Dana begins typing the name of her medical front office course in a search bar. She highlights the course name, then mouses over buttons to import and download.

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So as long as you're a teacher in the course, you can import it into your courses or you can download it and import it manually.

But that will give you a Template to get started with, so that you can practice these things that I showed you today. So if you don't already have a Template, that's a way to get one. So Commons and then filter all the way down at the bottom, choose California Adult Education, Canvas Commons, and then you have that adult education 2023 custom Template right there.

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Dana mouses over the template tile again. Text, Text, OTAN ONLINE. Canvas Teachers - Using a Template or Blueprint Course. Presenter: Dana Thompson, OTAN Subject Matter Expert. February 29, 2024. Follow Us. Twitter /OTAN. LinkedIN /company/otan 2. Like Us Facebook /OTANServesAdultEducation. Subscribe. YouTube/OTANServesAdultEducation. Professional Development. News. Teach with Technology. Videos. TDLS. Online Resources. OTAN.US 916-228-2580.