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** Coming soon - Faculty, staff and students will have access to Canvas for Fall 2020**

What is Canvas?

Canvas is RISD's new Learning Management System (LMS). It is used by learning institutions, educators, and students to access and manage online course learning materials and communicate about skill development and learning achievement.

Canvas includes a variety of customizable course creation and management tools, course and user analytics and statistics, and internal communication tools.

How do I access Canvas?

Visit canvas.risd.edu and sign in with your RISD username and password.

Canvas Training
There are multiple self-paced online training opportunities. IT Services will also offer live Canvas Training Workshops in the near future. The on-line training and resources are listed below:

Training Services Portal
Faculty teaching a Fall 2020 Course are able to access the Canvas Training Services Portal from the Help section in the Canvas navigation (See How do I use the Training Services Portal as an instructor?).
The Training Services Portal provides access to Courses, Videos, and Live Webinars as well as a Learning Pathway titled "Higher Education: First Day Ready".

"Higher Education: First Day Ready"**Recommended Training for Fall 2020 Faculty**
This learning pathway is specifically tailored to walking you through how to set up a new course. There are four modules and the total time commitment is approximately 4 hours. The modules are also available separately under Courses.

Preparing to Launch
These 6 steps help to quickly move your course content from “on the ground” delivery to distance learning.

Courses & Videos

Several courses and videos are available in the Training Service Portal to help faculty get started. We suggest filtering results based on the Higher Ed tag to see relative topics. Many of the courses and videos are used in the "Higher Education: First Day Ready" Learning Pathway so we suggest using these as supplements.

Live Webinars
The live webinar topics and schedules vary. Please see the Live Webinars section to register. We suggest filtering results based on the Higher Ed tag to see relative topics.

“Growing with Canvas” Course in Canvas
All faculty are automatically enrolled in a training course called “Growing with Canvas” which goes through Canvas basics such as: communication tools, pages, discussions, assignments, quizzes, grading and collaboration. This course goes into a deeper dive on several of the topics in the recommended "Higher Education: First Day Ready" course. Since this course uses a Canvas course as its platform you will also get to experince Canvas from the student side. During this course you will be assigned exercises related to building a course and you may do that in your Sandbox space. There are six modules and the total time commitment is approximately 6-10 hours.

LinkedIn Learning

You may also utilize our campus subscription to LinkedIn Learning to get started with Canvas. We have identified two courses that may be useful: Learning Canvas and Canvas: Tips, Tricks & Techniques.

What Is a Sandbox?

All faculty have a dedicated course space in Canvas to build and try things out. This space isn't an assigned course and does not have students enrolled - it's just a place to play. Canvas refers to these courses as Sandboxes.

**Sandbox versions of all Fall 2020 courses are now available on Canvas.**

Faculty may use their Sandbox course to test features, draft course content and familiarize themselves with the new system. The sandbox courses will be titled with “sandbox” to distinguish them between the live courses. Information added now can be exported to the live course in the near future. To get started visit canvas.risd.edu and sign in with your RISD username and password.

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Canvas Resources
How-To Guides
Getting Started Guide
Canvas Instructor Guide
Canvas Video Guides

Canvas Support
Canvas Community

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