2019-20 Canvas Webinar Schedule
Monthly webinars for Canvas are NEW for 2019-20 and offer a great chance to explore how to use a learning management system with your students. Please check out our printable webinar calendar and visit bit.ly/nccanvaswebinars to register and view links to webinar recordings.
Canvas Teacher Spotlight
District: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
School: Butler High School
Contributor: Stephanie Ferron
Project: Canvas for PLCs and Common Assessments
Butler High School was tasked with creating PLCs and common assessments for courses in order to better evaluate student achievement. They used Canvas to do this by creating a common sandbox for each PLC. All teachers imported in their Question Banks. Together they have created and aligned their standards with outcomes and developed tests and re-tests based on shared materials.
The teachers at Butler High School started this project about two years ago. Each team was asked to create four common assessments per class and to evaluate student progress and growth. As a school, they were just learning the Canvas platform, and this was a way to leverage both. Initially there were just a few tests shared, mid-terms and unit tests. But as the teachers in the PLCs learned how easy it was to share materials in Canvas, the PLC Sandboxes have grown.
They have created PLC Canvas courses with all of their tests (or quizzes) in Canvas aligned in Outcomes, and then students use Canvas as a digital tracker for mastery. Most PLCs have organized their questions into test banks aligned to outcomes so that they can group questions and pull different questions for individual students and retests. Some PLCs have also started creating and sharing Mastery Paths to differentiate lessons based on quiz outcomes.
In addition to assessments and Mastery Paths, assignments, projects, and other work have been shared between PLC members. All 116 staff members at the school are now using Canvas in some way. Teachers are branching out and adding external apps to their Canvas courses. For example, foreign language teachers love to use Flipgrid to evaluate student speaking in Canvas.
Join us in congratulating the work being done at Butler High School!
Canvas Updates
Check out our InstructureCon Product Update to learn about upcoming and recent changes in Canvas. Some of our favorites include:
In addition to the updates, be sure to check out our New Gradebook Instructor Guides to learn about the exciting new enhancements!
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