WHAT IS CHANGING
The Learning Services Team has offered the Be The Hero, Quick Start Admin Guide, in CanvasNet and for import from the Canvas Commons. Some clients may have also received a course import file and added this resource directly to their instance.The resource will be deprecated as of July 15, 2023. Please read on for alternative resources.
WHY
The Instructure Community team has developed free materials for beginning Canvas Admins. In the past, these materials were found throughout the Community guides. Recently, these materials have been reorganized into Getting Started Lessons. The benefit is that these lessons and guides are kept up to date with each release by an entire team dedicated to maintaining the community content.
OUTREACH
Current participants in the CanvasNet course will also receive this announcement and an update to the course in the Canvas Commons will include the messaging on the homepage and in the version update notes.
ALTERNATIVE RESOURCE
Below is a walkthrough on the free community material recommended for new Canvas Admins, click on the image to begin. Or, you can go directly to these lessons here.
Previous Content Preserved Below in Italics - Now Outdated
Knowing where to begin as a brand new Canvas Admin can be a huge task. You probably need to move quickly, and learn a lot all at once. We've created a new free resource - Be The Hero - for you to help you get acclimated to how Canvas works and how it can work for you!
Thanks to @erin_keefe and Deactivated user as well as the rest of the Canvas Training team for developing wonderful, free resource such as the Be The Hero - New Training Course for Canvas Admins! for Canvas Admins and Growing with Canvas - New Training Course. If you have not seen these resources yet, get your copy in the Canvas Commons. Check out the helpful guides for the commons here: Guides: Commons.
Once you import this resource into a shell, you will receive notifications when this course has been updated. You can ask questions and get more information about these updates here and choose if you wish to import those updates to your course.
TIP: If you customized the Be The Hero course and you import the update, the entire course will be rewritten with that update. It is best to pull the updated course into a new shell and copy the update to change specifically into your customized course.
Here is a list of updates that have been made in the Be The Hero Course to date:
| Course Item | More Detail | Reason | Action Needed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | Account Settings Video | The Vimeo video created the Docs Team has been updated and will expire on May 31, 2019. | Include Account Settings updates | Replace the video with this updated 415 - Account Settings on Vimeo |
Update Notes for July 17, 2019Updates 7/18/2019
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Course Item |
More Detail |
Reason |
Action Needed |
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5.3 |
Added line that was not displaying |
Not showing - originally was a file that was dead |
Replace html code <p> </p> <hr/> after saving the day in the HTML editor |
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2.6 |
Added line that was not displaying |
Not showing - originally was a file that was dead |
Replace html code <p> </p> <hr/> after saving the day in the HTML editor |
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2.4 |
Added line that was not displaying |
Not showing - originally was a file that was dead |
Replace html code <p> </p> <hr/> after saving the day in the HTML editor |
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Replaced 2.7 and 2.8 links in the 2.8 Self Paced Quiz with links to 2.6 adn 2.7 |
These pages did not exist. Changed the quiz question JIT feedback to refer to 2.6 and 2.7 |
Pages non existent |
Open the 2.8 Self Check Quiz. View all of the Quiz Details. Replace the 2.8 Sections and Cross Listing with the Link to 2.7 Sections and Cross listing in the Just In Time Feedback. Do the same for the 2.7 Moving Courses to reference the link to 2.6 Moving Courses |
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7.1 |
Replace broken link referencing Community Blog |
Link leads to a blank page |
Replace the link to the text “to this blog int eh community” to refer to this url: https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/admins/blog/2018/10/03/how-are-you-being-the-hero |
