Parent Letter

[shelly_shaw]

Does anyone have a sample parent letter that that you use in your district to send home explaining what Canvas is to your parents?  I would love to have some examples to go off as we create one for our district.

Thanks!

Shelly

[clong]

Hi Shelly,

Since we use a few different systems I made a video for parents. It's not all about Canvas but it might help you.

Here's a transcript of the video​

Here's the slides I used

And here's the video​

Hope this helps ya

[shelly_shaw · Accepted solution]

Thanks for sharing!  These were great!  We actually have a video and pdf directions we created for our parents that show them how to log on to the system.  I sent that out to one of my schools and they have requested an actual letter to accompany that information.  Basically they want a letter that explains what Canvas is.  This is brand new in our district this year and our parents don't even know what it is or what it does at this point.

[clong]

Your welcome! Hopefully my small description of what Canvas is in there gives you an idea that you can elaborate on. When you have a draft of your letter I'd love to see it and I'm sure it would be something helpful for others in the community to as well, so please post a link to it or attach it.

I'd also be happy to read your draft and give you feedback.

[joseph_allen]

Chris,

This was very helpful.  We're in our first year of implementation and were not ready to open the system to parents at the beginning of this school year, but we will definitely create a video and some hand outs similar to what you've shown here for next year.   Thank you for sharing.

[millera1]

Shelly,

Here was our first communication to parents for our website and social media:

Canvas Coming Fall 2016

Canvas is the Learning Management System coming Fall of 2016 for Caston School Corporation in grades K-12.  A learning management system, (or LMS), is a software-based platform that provides a framework and tools to facilitate online learning both inside and outside of the school building.

Canvas bundles assessments, grading, state standards, messaging, learning data, and more—while keeping everything simple, easy, and in one place.  Canvas was chosen as the Caston Learning Management System for its wide range of easy to use tools for teachers, students and parents.  Canvas will allow our teachers and students to use our 1:1 technology more efficiently and more effectively.

Information for parents about how to log on to Canvas will be sent to parents over the summer and will be available during registration for the 2016-17 school year.

To learn more about how Canvas is used K-12 click here.