Canvas Learning Management System

First Grade Canvas Page

Over the years I have created numerous courses in Canvas learning management system. I recently worked with a team of first grade teachers to create a primary education friendly canvas page. I worked with the teachers to come up with frequently used topics and content covered in class that they would need separate pages for within their course.

Page Features

Daily students can find their morning message within Canvas, this is where their daily morning routines and activities can be found. Within reading and math is where the differentiated “small group” content is kept for each of the student’s assigned groups. The writing page was used to help remind students of essential content that was taught during class, this can be used to “jog” student memory or teach students who may have been absent. The content within social studies and science changes based on the unit that the teachers are currently teaching. Bonus work is used for the early finishing students who need additional educational things to work on while other students finish their work. Finally, the tech help and e-learning buttons are for the monthly e-learning days that the students participate in, information within these pages is updated with each e-learning day.

Content Created

The teachers needed discussion boards, quizzes (both new and old), pages and videos created and embedded in Canvas to help set their students up for success. I worked with the teachers on several occasions to train them in the basics of Canvas. We worked together to link content from outside sources into Canvas to help ease the burden for young students who are newer to the educational format of technology.

Canvas as a Tool

All in all the early introduction to Canvas helps to set the first graders up for success in later grades where Canvas is the primary home for many of their academic courses.