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What is the Canvas FastTrack Video Series?

Since Canvas was founded, in 2011, administrators have taken many different approaches to how they rollout Canvas at their institutions. There is not one perfect "one size fits all" way for everyone to implement Canvas and garner the attention and engagement to which most aspire.

The "Canvas FastTrack Video Series" is a quick video guide for teachers to help with the alignment of Canvas tools with SAMR and the ways to perpetually increase user engagement! For the next 40 days we will present a new 2 1/2 minute video to the Community starting with the Substitution level of SAMR. Everyone is encouraged to reply and share their personal insight, experiences, and advice.

Have an idea for a FastTrack topic: SHARE YOUR IDEAS FOR FUTURE QUESTIONS, HERE

Here's a listing of the FastTrack Videos...

Date:	Canvas FastTrack Video Topic:
March 7th	FastTrack Episode 1: Announcements - Extra Extra Read all About It!
March 8th	FastTrack Episode 2: Video Announcements - Level Up your Announcements
March 9th	FastTrack Episode 3: Linking your Online Textbooks & Resources - The One Stop Shop
March 10th	FastTrack Episode 4: Calendar - Time is of the Essence
March 11th	FastTrack Episode 5: Worksheets - Quick Distribution of Worksheet/Handouts
March 14th	FastTrack Episode 6: Homepage - Make it a Website but Better!
March 15th	FastTrack Episode 7: Media Tool - Take Two! Video Tools
March 16th	FastTrack Episode 8: Featured Items - Student Spotlights, Features & Course Vignettes
March 17th	FastTrack Episode 9: Modules - The backbone of your Course
March 18th	FastTrack Episode 10: LTI's - Freebies We Love!
March 21st	FastTrack Episode 11: Student View - Do you know what they see?
March 22nd	FastTrack Episode 12: Student Submissions - Snap a Pic and Submit!
March 23rd	FastTrack Episode 13: Student Comments - Comments, Questions, Concerns
March 24th	FastTrack Episode 14: SpeedGrader App - Grade on the Fly!
March 25th	FastTrack Episode 15: Commons - Help me, Help you
March 28th	FastTrack Episode 16: Daily Assignments - Fast Fives, Bellwork, Daily Warm-up
March 29th	FastTrack Episode 17: Pages - Fun Sized and Bite Sized
March 30th	FastTrack Episode 18: Modules: Fun Formative Assessments
March 31st	FastTrack Episode 19: Submissions: Google, Office365, OneNote
April 1st	FastTrack Episode 20: Discussions: Chat about it!
April 4th	FastTrack Episode 21: Lights, Camera, Action!
April 5th	FastTrack Episode 22: 911, Where are your Emergency sub plans?
April 6th	FastTrack Episode 23: Flip it, Flip it real good!
April 7th	FastTrack Episode 24: Cloze Note Quizzes
April 8th	FastTrack Episode 25: Gallery Stroll through Canvas
April 11th	FastTrack Episode 26: Power of Immediate Feedback
April 12th	FastTrack Episode 27: Choose Your Own Learning Adventure
April 13th	FastTrack Episode 28: Pick a submission, any submission
April 14th	FastTrack Episode 29: Me, reviewing you, reviewing me?
April 15th	FastTrack Episode 30: Let's start a Journal!
	FastTrack Episode 31: Students Track Progress
	FastTrack Episode 32: Show & Tell
	FastTrack Google & Canvas Episode 1: Graphic Organizers and Cloud Assignments
	FastTrack Google & Canvas Episode 2: Versioning of Assignments for Revision with Google
	FastTrack Google & Canvas Episode 3: Whole Class Collaboration on a Google Document
	FastTrack Google & Canvas Episode 4: Collaboration Tool with Canvas & Google
	FastTrack Google & Canvas Episode 5: Embed in an Assignment for Text Entry submission
	FastTrack Google & Canvas Episode 6: Embed Consumable Readings or Documents

[myanalunas]

These are useful and quick videos and exactly a strategy I often recommend to instructors to inform and engage students in their online courses. Thank you to the folks who are working on these!

Meg

[tankovpa]

I agree, the videos are very nice! The short videos are a great length to engage users and open the conversation on a topic. It would be nice if we were able to grab the embed code of these videos so we add them easily into Canvas pages. It was something that can be done with the Canvas Guide videos in Vimeo, but I don't see the options with these.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

[lstark]

Hi  @tankovpa ​,

Thanks for the feedback. They are being uploaded weekly to YouTube. So if you have YouTube access you can embed from there!

We will see what we can do with Vimeo down the road.

Thanks!

Leslie

[tankovpa]

Awesome! thanks for letting me know. I will grab them from there. Do you have it set up as a channel?

[lstark]

 @tankovpa ​ It is a playlist under the CanvasLMS Youtube Channel. This link should take you directly there, only the first five are up, the next five will be up next week, expect about a half week delay from the Community to YouTube.

Thanks!

[teraulbert]

These are great,  @lstark ​!

Could you please upload your captions to YouTube? Right now it is "auto-generated" which won't allow us to use these for our 113 colleges.

If you aren't able to caption these, can we download the videos and upload them to our own YouTube account with captions we type out?

Thank you!

California Community Colleges​

[lstark]

Hi  @teraulbert ​,

Thanks for the feedback! I will reach out to our Social Media department about captioning on YouTube, in the meantime, feel free to download them and share them on your own YouTube Channel with Captioning.  In the spirit of openness here at Instructure, the more visibility the better.   I believe our YouTube delay is about a week.

Thanks!

Leslie

[brandont]

This is fantastic!  Nice, short, to-the-point videos that my colleagues can access and they are all in one place.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[joseph_allen]

Really good stuff.  Thanks for creating and sharing.