[ARCHIVED] Seeking advice on creating classroom with text book data

[apageor2]

When creating a higher education classroom with use of a text book is there a particular way teachers like to do things? I'm just starting out with CANVAS and looking for some insight from others that are better at doing this. Before you ask, I haven't gotten the job yet, I'm working on it. Have all my papers in order now it is a matter of showing what I can do so they are aware I can use CANVAS. 😃

Feel free to ask questions. I do appreciate your assistance on this. Thanks!

-Sue

[kona]

 @apageor2 , because Canvas is so flexible, there are many different ways that Instructors like to use Canvas. At our Institution we recommend that faculty build their course (course content) in Modules, but that's just one way of doing things. My recommendations for you are to:

• Check out these example Canvas Courses - Example Courses by Subject- to get some idea of what you might like to do.
• If you need help when building check out the Instructor and Video Guides - Canvas Guides

In addition, I'm going to share this with the Instructional Designers​ group in the Community to see if they can offer any recommendations/suggestions.

[gouldt]

Sue,

The publisher will likely have resources that you can use to go in your Canvas course. I am an Instructional Designer and I work with Instructors to create and update their online courses. The first thing I do is go to the publisher for the textbook and get access to publisher resources. They usually have power points, instructor manuals and test banks. Sometimes the testbanks are in a weird format that you have to convert and import into Canvas. As Kona said, using modules will make your job easier. You will need to set the home page to modules, then it's real easy to add content and organize them. It's drag and drop! There are many Canvas tutorials available on the web, so all you have to do is google it, and you'll learn more than you can imagine. Good Luck!