Canvas Parent Guide
Weber School District Canvas Parent's Guide
Canvas is a powerful Learning Management System or LMS used by the district to provide instruction, assessments, and communicate with Students. Parents can use the system to view their student's performance, grades, assignments, as well as communicating with the teachers. Tutorials and guides on how to use Canvas.
How to Setup and Login to your account.
How to navigate in Canvas on your Dashboard.
How to Adjust your notification settings.
How to use the Canvas Calendar.
How to use Canvas Inbox to communicate with the Instructor.
How to look at Grades and Feedback.
Quick! Distance-Learning Resources for WSD Teachers
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Google Classroom
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Canvas
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Office Hours:
Conferences allow teachers to virtually collaborate with and suppliment instruction for students remotely. Establishing Virtual Office hours ensures that your students know you'll be available to support their learning on those times and days. Both Hangouts and Conferences are great tools for this; check out how to use them in the links below! |
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Google Docs
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Canvas Assignments
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Google Slides
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Canvas Quizzes
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Canvas Conferences
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Canvas Commons
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Google Hangouts
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Growing with Canvas for WSD
New to Canvas? Here's an in-depth guide that will cover all the basics of creating, delivering, and assessing amazing student learning opportunities. Just click here or on the image below to get started!
(Psst! Would you just like the basics, as quickly as possible? Click here for our Canvas Essentials for WSD course instead!)
Questions, comments or concerns? Please let me know at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Thanks!
Directly Share Canvas Content
Hey, Canvas fans! We've enabled a feature called Direct Share that enables you to quickly send assignments, quizzes, discussions, and content pages to specific people. Here's how:
While viewing any assignment, quiz, discussion, or content page in Canvas, click the three dots (more options) button and choose Send To ...
You can also do this from the main index pages for Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions, and Pages.
Start typing the name of the person you'd like to send that content to, and the rest will autofill. You can send stuff to multiple people as well!
If someone has Direct-Shared you any Canvas content, you'll see a notification on your profile picture:
Click on Shared Content to Preview that content, Import it into your course if you'd like, or to Remove it altogether.
That's it! If you have any questions or suggestions for using Direct Share in Canvas to collaborate with your amazing educator colleagues, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.with it! Thanks!
How to Use Google Assignments in Canvas
Canvas Essentials for WSD Students
Hey Canvas users! Looking for a quick way to give your students a tour of the basic features of Canvas? Here's an overview and guide written specifically for Weber School District students -- feel free to import this module into your course as-is, or change it to be whatever you'd like! Just click the image below for a link to the module on Canvas Commons:
Any suggestions for improvement? This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and I'd be happy to add them! Thanks!
