Creating a Homepage with Canvas LMS | Ashlee Espinosa
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- This Canvas LMS tutorial on creating a homepage takes you step by step with setting up, customizing and developing your online class homepage with a few examples and tips along the way. Welcome your students into their online class with an exciting, fun and informative homepage. Keep it simple, effective and easy to navigate.
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Cannot thank you enough for these simple instructions and info. This video was wonderfully straightforward! Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you!!! I have been fighting canvas for a week getting ready for school online. I might survive now thanks to you!
Hang in there! You will get it. One step at a time. Remember that your students are just as freaked out too because it's a new way of learning for them as well.
I really appreciate how you explain everything step by step! This is what I needed!
You're welcome!
So Excited! I actually created my first home page! Thanks Ashlee, so on point and precise!
Wonderful! You got this!
This helped me SO MUCH!!! I was on the verge of tears and came across this. Thank you so much!!!
Oh my goodness I'm so glad I could keep you from crying!!! Hang in there. I've got tons of tutorials in that canvas playlist to help and I'm uploading new ones every week.
OMG!! Thank you so much!! Ashlee, you have made it so much easier for me to understand. Bless Your Heart.
Glad it was helpful!
This was so easy to follow. You chased the butterflies and tears away.
yay!!!! This was the second video I ever recorded on Canvas too way back in March of this year when I started doing these on a whim. You can see how better my tech and editing gets with each video if you are working through the entire playlist series. Glad I could ease that burden and keep those butterflies and tears away!!
Thanks Ashlee. So happy to have found your videos. Very well done. Our school is having loads of training, but too much information crammed into each session without this much depth. Add to that 100 teachers at different levels with different questions and you have information overload. Your videos are a great resource!
I completely understand! There is so much to teaching online especially in Canvas that it's easy to get overwhelmed. One step at a time and start with the basics. Build as you go and learn in small increments. I'm so glad these videos are a great resource for you!
You are amazing !!! Your video tutorials are so helpful and easy to follow. Thank you so much for the great instruction and easy explanations.
You are so welcome!
You're videos are fantastic. Thank you, thank you and thank you. I am pretty new to much of Canvas and you've helped me tremendously!
Happy to help! Give yourself time and just start with the basics. Work on just one element a day or a week depending on how much time you have until you use it for your first class. Keep it simple and easy to navigate. You got this!
You wonderful, phenomenal, amazing human being! Thank you so much!!! There's so much I don't know, but due to this video you have checked a huge "to do" off of my list. Thank you for taking the time to create this!!!
You are so welcome! I'm just happy that I'm able to offer support so you can save some time and energy as a teacher which (hopefully) leaves more free time for you :)
This was SO helpful and simple to follow along. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much! The tutorials Canvas has built into their platform were not doing much for me and I was getting so frustrated! You are a lifesaver!!
Glad I could help! I wish Canvas would bring me on their team ;)
Thank you! I have been trying to do this all damn day with my district's tutorial and was in tears. You solved my issues in 10 minutes. Even though you teach college, I could use everything for 1st grade stuff. Well done! And THANK YOU, Ashlee!
Glad I could be of helpful and keep you from crying!! I know how tough it is right now as everyone is going through crunch time before your online classes/hybrid classes start in the coming weeks. Hang in there! You got this. I'll keep adding videos to offer as much help as I can.
Yes, so easy to follow!!
Wow I did not know how to do this at all. I kept thinking I could figure it out on my own but this video saved me a lot of time.
I posted before, but I really do have to reiterate how helpful your videos are. I have recommended this site to my co-workers. Thanks again!
Thanks for sharing!! and thank you so much for this message. Sometimes posting content on UA-cam feels lonely because you never know if it's really offering value and helping people out in the world. 😊
I LOVE your videos...I follow it step by step right along with you...and recommended to all the teachers at my school to do the exact same thing!!!
That is awesome! Thanks so much for the recommendation. I sure appreciate you!
THANK YOU! My school district ordered us to create Canvas home pages but gave virtually no guidance on how to do so. You're awesome, thank you!
Glad I could help! You got this!
Thank you so much! Ashley you made it so clear!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for your step by step!! This literally saved me! I was ready to eat a pack of Oreos and wash it down with a milkshake, I was so frustrated. But, this video literally saved my diet!! :)
I''m glad I was there to help! I've switched to treating myself with a piece of dark chocolate as a reward after a long day or when I'm super frustrated ...I buy a new pair of earrings on etsy. :) Just gotta switch that energy up! you did it!!!
Thank you for both the clear technical instruction as well as the advice on what content to include. Much appreciated. If it's OK with you, I'll probably recommend your entire channel to my fellow teachers who are looking for Canvas instruction.
thanks so much! I'm glad it was helpful and thanks for sharing.
Thank you. That was pretty easy. Completed it in about 5 minutes.
That's amazing!!
Thank you for this. I'm in my credential program and in one of my classes our final project is to create a pretend canvas class and I was so lost on how to do that. Your videos are really helping me get through this assignment. Definitely will remember Canvas when I'm a future teacher.
Wonderful! I'm glad it helped in this final project! I also love that this was a project in your credential program.
Your videos are always fantastic. Thank you for sharing. You made a comment about how you can't do fancy things in Canvas. You actually can do a tremendous amount of fancy things although not everyone has the knowledge to do so. With a little studying about HTML/CSS you'd be amazed at how many fancy layouts you can create in the HTML editor. It's true that Canvas has limited us, but there are creative ways to figure things out. I've been able to create some pretty fancy layouts for my college music classes.
You have saved me! I am taking a class where I am supposed to be learning this and your video was one thousand times clearer for m. Thank you, thank you.
If I had a penny for every time someone said this to me I would be a rich woman! I’ve always said Canvas should hire me to launch a free training program on how to actually use their product from an educators perspective with step by step tutorials. It’s like getting a product without a manual on how to set it up right? Seems silly to me. Anywho glad the video was helpful. I have an entire canvas tutorials playlist on my channel. Though I no longer create content about online teaching I’ve left those videos up bc everyone keeps telling me how helpful there are.
Thanks for the clear tutorial. These videos are so helpful! Now I'm just trying to figure out how to have the course title and image at the top but keep the modules up on the home page at the same time.
Thank you so much!
Thank you for making these! I keep coming back for reminders and lessons!
You’re so welcome.! Though my content has shifted on my Channel I still keep all of the Canvas tutorials and online teaching videos up bc so many people say they keep coming back to them or discovering them now. Hope it continues to help fellow educators out there all over the world navigate online teaching and reduce some stress along the way!
Awesome - very informative, friendly and digestible content. My style of learning :) Thank you for taking the time to share!!!
My pleasure!
Your instruction videos are the best, thank you so much!
Welcome! 🤗
I am crying tears of joy right now. I was hired "late" at a university. I literally had 48 hours to produce my course syllabus, my calendar, and my canvas shell for two classes! Your tutorial took me step by step. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!1
you're so welcome. glad I could help and best wishes on your semester! Be patient with yourself and just learn and add as you go.
So incredibly helpful, thank you!
You're so welcome!
I saw several other videos, but yours is the best. So I had to subscribe the channel.
Wow, thanks! I sure appreciate the feedback and so happy I'm here to help.
HI! I am a little late to this video, but I just wanted to give you a quick thank you for sharing your videos about setting up our Canvas courses. I am a first year GTA and will be teaching first-year college writing (which I am really excited and nervous about), and had been looking forward to creating a Welcome page for my students. Truly, this video helped me SO much in becoming more familiar with Canvas! And I plan to take a look at your other tutorial videos, as well. Thank you! ^_^
Thank you for the step by step!
You bet!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Learned more from your video than a 6 hour course I had to take.
Glad it helped!
Well done and very well explained. Thank you! 😁 👍🏽
welcome! 😀
You are a life saver!!
Glad I could offer some help!
This was very helpful -- thank you!
You're very welcome!
Thank you so much! I am on my second day of Canvas training for my district and I felt completely overwhelmed. This tutorial helped immensely!
Glad it was helpful!
@@VirtualTeachingPro This is NOT helpful. The screen you show must be older than the one I have now. There is not way for me to upload an Image the way you do. It's so frustrating.
Thank you this was a BIG help!!!!
You're welcome!
Thanks for the help your making a difference
Happy to help!
OMG! I want to take your History of Musical Theater class! :0)
Thank you so much for all of the helpful Canvas content. I refer to these videos every semester.
hahaha I would love to have you in my musical theater history class sometime! Keep an eye out on my channel as I started to create content around musical theatre moving forward. I'll include some history videos for you! For now I'll be keeping my Canvas videos on my channeling even though my content is going to shift. Hope that helps.
Wow..Thank you. You change my CANVAS totally. It was always boring and now, yeaaa..Thumbs up.
Happy to help!
What a great Video! thank U so much! :D
You're very welcome!
Thank you!
You're so welcome! How's your Canvas course coming along? Don't forget to check out the Canvas Tutorials playlist series as you continue to build your course to walk you through step by step: ua-cam.com/play/PLit_70db88TTVKUlrn-xdwO02QtVN5JzP.html
Thank you!!
You're welcome! Are you just starting out creating your course on Canvas?
Boom! just joined Canvas and your videos make super excited about the possibilities! Gracias x
Yay! Thank you! I love your videos about learning how to speak Spanish! Really creative videos and very informative. I'll be watching them since it has been on my list to learn Spanish for a while now. My husband and I spend the summers in Mexico normally and he speaks Spanish but I only know the basics. Now I've got some extra time! Thanks so much!
@@VirtualTeachingPro Greetings Ashlee. I hope you're well. Thank you for sharing. My TA and I will be consuming your videos as we learn Canvas. Our university is switching from Bb to Canvas and the 3 year transition culminates in the Fall when we all must migrate over. I'm getting a head start with my Intro to Psych course. Be well.
@@jermainerobertson8545 A few colleges I work for actually just finished switching over as well from Bb too. Take it one step at a time. Let me know if you need any specific videos and I'll add them to my list.
Thanks Ashlee that is really helpful .
Glad it was helpful!
Lady - I owe you my LIFE! We were tossed unceremoniously into this program with a bunch of lame "how to" links. Thank you sooooo much!!
I'm just so happy that I can be of help to you!!! Glad you found me :)
@@VirtualTeachingPro Are there different versions of Canvas? I could not, absolutely no way, could I use your directions to put in an image. I get a screen that pops up that you did not get. It threw everything off. I've been working on this for over an hour and an image is not worth that kind of time
THANK YOU.
You're welcome!
WoW! You're so good at this I'm surprised you're not one of the computer tech professors there. If theatre is your wheelhouse and passion, I'm missing out on some amazing classes at your U. Thank you so much for your videos. I'm a middle school teacher and our district (well, actually our entire state public education system) has decided to go Canvas a month before classes start and it's stressful...Your videos are the best support I've received so far. Stay awesome!
I"m so glad these videos have been helpful! I know it's super stressful right now with the last minute push to move to Canvas across the country and really the world the last month. I'll keep adding new videos every week. Thanks for your feedback and support. I appreciate it!
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Fantastic! Thank you so much :)
Welcome 🙏
This video was very helpful. I love the design of the first class with all the tabs. I wonder if you could make a video explaining how to create the tabs with the color buttons.
Great suggestion! I've added it to my list of videos.
Thanks for this. Super helpful!
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful for you! Let me know if you have any specific requests for video tutorials and I"ll add it to my list.
Your videos on Canvas are saving my sanity. When I know enough to know what I don't know, I will let you know. See... on the verge! :)
Major League Thanks for the Awesome Help!!!
You bet!
I so appreciate your videos! They teach how to use canvas well. Is there anyway you can make a video on how to make all the buttons with hyperlinks you had on one of the first homepages you showed?
Absolutely! I would be more than happy to create a video about how I make the buttons and hyperlink them in my homepages. Let me start working on that now and I'll post it as soon as I can. Keep an eye out 😀 And thank you for the feedback! I'm so glad these videos are helpful for you!
Thanks so much! I look forward to that video!
Thank you. This has been extraordinarily helpful. I'm trying to find the video where you put tabs/links on the homepage.
Glad it was helpful! I don't think I've created a video on that just yet. I'll add it to my list though!
Thanks for your video. Have you made a video about embedding youtube videos and inserting the text into a page from a pdf file
The Cidi Labs DesignPLUS tool-set makes it much easier to enhance visual elements and content organization. Most instructors won't have time to learning CSS/HTML.
Sooooo, you're my hero!
Oh my goodness you are too kind! I just hope I can be of help for you and make this transition a little easier and discover some joy in online teaching. You got this!!
@@VirtualTeachingPro oh absolutely!! I'll definitely be checking in and watching as many videos as possible!
I want to learn the way you speak, you sound so smart. I try to copy your speaking way although i dont make videos. Hehehe thanks for the inspiration from🇵🇭
You can do it! I've spent my entire life training in acting and singing lessons so it's definitely due to that strong training background. Have you considered taking a beginning acting class? Might be helpful! Thanks for your kind words though and I bet you sound great 😀
Hi Ashlee, I just followed your tutorial for a home page and found it great. How do student go from the home page to the modules?
They should use either the module tab on the left side bar as navigation or you can create links on your homepage that they can click on.
Don't forget to check out the entire Canvas Tutorials seres here → ua-cam.com/play/PLit_70db88TTVKUlrn-xdwO02QtVN5JzP.html
Consider including a picture of you on the homepage so new students get to know you a little better. I've discovered it puts them at ease and makes the teaching more personal since it's online.
Do the announcements automatically pop up at the top of your created home page?
@@tasiamcdonald2791 no they are not auto. You need to go into settings to adjust that. go to this video ua-cam.com/video/8vLia8KWP1A/v-deo.html at about 7:00 and I explain it.
I am just starting up w/ Canvas and I am wondering whether or not there is a specific order that I should watch your videos. BTW, I love you energy. Thanks
Start at the bottom with Settings video and work your way up to the most recent one!
@@VirtualTeachingPro Ty so much.
Thank you this helps so much - CANVAS is absolute shit compared to the LMS our university is discontinuing - but you make it survivable.
Glad I could help. Hang in there.
Thank you very much for this tutorial. I was wondering how you placed the "recent announcements" at the top of your home page? Can you please offer a tutorial for this, or give me a link to a previous tutorial where you did it? Thank you.
Check out the video Settings and Functions of Canvas I've linked below and go to 7:15 time stamp.
ua-cam.com/video/8vLia8KWP1A/v-deo.html
@@VirtualTeachingPro Perfect, thank you very much. I enjoy your content. I teach Severely Handicapped Special Education, so this is a NEW way of engaging my students.
Yes, a new way indeed and I always tell people to keep in mind that it's new for us as teachers and also them as students. One step at a time and we will all work through this together.
@@VirtualTeachingPro well I am so grateful that you have made the effort to publicize your work. I teach Severely Handicapped Special Education, so this indirect instruction is quite the task for me. You have great advice and I am eager to go further with you.
You were very helpful. I need to learn how to add embedded links from you tube.I also want to learn how to add graphics/pictures live. I want my students to just play the button and see the video right off the page.
Glad it was helpful! Check out this video for embedding youtube links in Canvas: ua-cam.com/video/J_RmcQkQNBo/v-deo.html
@AshleeEspinosa Can I make a home page and modules (pre planning) if I haven't been assigned a course to teach yet? My canvas is pretty much a blank canvas lol. Also, you keep emphasizing "create pages" and "new pages"... In order to create a syllabus would that be a "page" or should we create that under the "syllabus tab"?
Pre planning is super helpful. You'll need a course assigned to you first or you might ask your admin if you can be allowed a blank canvas class to practice/prep in and then you can export and import that work into the class once it's assigned to you. Create the syllabus under the syllabus tab. Think of syllabus as a page that's somewhat already set up for you within canvas. I posted a video on syllabus in canvas here ua-cam.com/video/-2E-5LKCauk/v-deo.html
Thanks for the video! Something I've noticed while playing around in Canvas and creating a homepage is that the title I create in Pages ends up disappearing when using that page as the homepage. For example, when you created your page, you wrote "Welcome!" for the title. However, once you selected that page to be your homepage, the "Welcome!" title was nowhere to be found.
Yes, this frustrates me too. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and I have no idea why. It use to always save that title but for some reason lately it does not. Maybe a tech glitch with Canvas? Hopefully they update that soon.
Hey Ashlee! Love your video. I am having trouble creating a front page for each modules. Everytime create one it changes all the module front pages to the one just did. Hope this isn't confusing :(
Try duplicating the page then editing them. It's hard to trouble shoot this via a text without seeing your screen and what's happening. Sorry I can't be of more help!
I seem to have way fewer buttons in my editor in Canvas. I can't seem to find a button to embed videos. Do I have an old version of Canvas or something?
This video I posted last year so yes this is using the old version of RCE. Now, we are all using the new improved Rich Content Editor. THat's why it looks different. Click on the insert button on the tool bar in RCE and you should see add video option. Here's a video with the updates if that helps. ua-cam.com/video/EIKdkqpKHxw/v-deo.html
hey have a question. can buttons be the main hub for activities and in that main hub you add more buttons to be then subtitled with different dates with activities for the same unit? example click on "activities", you will then see a lot of different "dates" in which you will select the one that is appropriate. i need you help
Personally, I do not prefer to use buttons in Canvas too much because it can confuse the students as to where you want them to go and when and in what order. Use modules for this instead to create the flow of the day, week or unit or even topic.
Thanks for the video! I have one more question. Does the teacher see the time which was used to solve in every single question, or you see only the total time at the end?
I don't believe you can see a full breakdown of how long they took on each question. Not yet at least but Canvas is constantly updating. You can check out their analytics though for each student but I don't think it's that detailed just the overall time at the end when they completed it. Hope this helps a little!
Yeah it helps a lot! Thanks❤️
@@gretaimolay8429 welcome 🙏
how do we put announcements on top?
ua-cam.com/video/8vLia8KWP1A/v-deo.html go to 7:15 in this video
Hi Ashlee! I am trying to find an easier way to upload media (photos and videos). Right now, my desktop does not display the right hand column with "Links, Files, and Images" that you talked about @4:48. Would you happen to know how I could add this?
Hi there! When you create a new page or edit a page or assignment then it should pop up on the right side bar. Double check that you are in the edit mode of creating a new page/assignment etc. That's when the right side bar will pop up.
I followed your tutorial - easily, so thank you for that...but in my courses it's showing my homepage is my sandbox? Something about my sandbox...which I've read is a place to work without publishing but how do I transfer to a place I can publish?
I've noticed that in some K-12 districts they have created Sandboxes to practice in or get started creating your courses for a foundation to work from. You should be able to copy/import course content with that sandbox now into your actual courses. I did a video on copying course content and also one on exporting and importing content if that's helpful.
The canvas that I am setting up now does not have an option to "Choose a Homepage".
can we embed a video clip from Kanopy?
I haven't tried that yet myself so I'm not sure. Keep in mind though that since it's subscription based they my still have to sign in to view it or it might not embed at all but give it a try! Use the embed code tool in the RCE box and see what happens! Let me know how it goes and keep me posted. Would love to know what happens!
What if your district has blocked UA-cam. What are my options?
I've been hearing this from many other people recently as well. I'm trying to come up with a solution but the only thing I can think of is to create your own content and upload directly to Canvas which does take up a ton of space depending on how much your district pays for to house content in the cloud. If you're using documentaries or video clips from series or educational content then try their websites to see if they have it posted so youk can link to the website. Some educational websites are posting video content directly on their page it's just discoering them that takes time and finding the resources. sorry I"m not able to offer more help just yet.
Another question...I created a homepage from my sandbox...then when I published it..the entire sandbox published...I only know enough technologically to be dangerous. What did I do wrong?
Hi Sherri. What do you mean by "sandbox" where you created your homepage? Then maybe I can offer some help.
How come your settings page shows a profile, but my wife Jennifer's, does not?
I'm not sure why a profile doesn't show up. I"ve heard that yet from other people but Canvas is being implemented in so many institutions quickly that there are multiple factors that could be the reason. Is she using a new account that was just created for her? Is she on a sandbox or practice account? Has she had her students loading into her courses?
I like your videos better than my district trainings. A few things.
1. My rich text editor does not have all the same options as yours. I followed step by step in making my page, and my choices were slightly different.
2. I cannot center my embedded youtube video no matter what. :(
Otherwise, I am so much further after your two videos than after even the self-paced Canvas training and 2 zooms with teachers from my school. THANK YOU.
I'm so glad these videos have been helpful for you! I've been hearing similar feedback from other people as well that their version of rich text editor is slightly different and I think that is dependent upon the school/uni/institution. I'm not sure why it varies yet even though it's the same platform. I wonder why you can't center a video. That's a new one to me. I"m so glad that you are moving further in your course creation though! Thanks for the wonderful feedback.
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I am trying to find a button maker for free so I can set up my math class. Any suggestions? My district is BLOCKING UA-cam
try this one. It's free, easy, quick, simple to make one. Not super fancy but quick! You can either get the code to embed if you know how to work with HTML + CSS or you can quickly download the image and upload it into canvas as a image file and then link it to the page you want to connect it to as a CTA. www.clickminded.com/button-generator/
I've heard of some districts starting to block youtube. That's a little frustrating to me because then it forces the teach to upload content right into Canvas and video files take up a load of space and if the district didn't purchase enough cloud space then you could easily fill up quickly with large files like videos. It's much easier to upload your videos to youtube and then quickly link it in canvas. It just makes it more challenging for faculty at this extreme time to get online fast and without much training.
@@VirtualTeachingPro a friend sent me a video for google draw. It was a pain, but it will do. Thank you for all your help
My university recently moved from Blackboard to Canvas and I am not only disappointed but extremely frustrated. Is there a more difficult, non-user friendly LMS? I have used several different systems of course delivery and I have not found anything more frustrating than Canvas. I never once had to consult a UA-cam video or instruction manual for Blackboard, everything was logical and easy to use for the low tech information user. It seems Canvas is only accessible for people with graduate degrees in computer science. Sorry for the rant, folks....
Totally understand your frustration here. I think it might be a personal preference on which platform you like and prefer better. Some people hate it and some people love it. What I've discovered is that the most positive part about everyone migrating to Canvas this year is that the students will understand the platform when they transition from HS to college or from community college to university since everyone is mostly using the same LMS these days. I hope these videos help and I've got an entire playlist series of Canvas tutorials if that helps as well. Hang in there fellow teacher and feel free to rant away anytime. We all need a space for that these days! 😀
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You talk too fast, I don't even want to listen...leaving
okay no worries. Just so you know, you can change the playback speed in UA-cam by clicking on the settings at the bottom right of the video. It's that little gear icon.
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!