Canvas is the Maricopa Community Colleges’ supported Learning Management System (LMS), used across the District. It supports online learning and provides students in all course modalities with access to assignments, due dates, grades, course materials, and other resources.
But Canvas is more than a place to store content. For many online students, Canvas is their primary MCC classroom.
In a face-to-face course, students experience the instructor, their classmates, the classroom, and campus resources around them. Online, those elements must be intentionally designed and made visible. The organization, content, activities, interactions, and pathways you create in Canvas shape how students experience your course.
To learn more about designing an effective Canvas learning course discover the Mesa+ Rubric. A quality design rubric adapted from the SUNY OSCQR. To discover up-to-date Canvas technical guides visit Canvas Community. Or if your a Maricopa employee jump into our Canvas Quick Start class to quickly learn many different aspects of a Canvas classroom.
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Some Academic departments at MCC design course templates and the college eLearning Department has been designing course templates for Zero Cost Textbook courses several years; so there may be a course template you could use. If you are interested in seeing if a zdegree course template exists for your course, contact: [email protected]
To learn more about using Canvas, take our Canvas Essentials online, self-paced course, watch video tutorials, and participate in an online forum visit Canvas Communities.
In the Related Content below, you will find a curated page of student video tutorials to include in your Canvas course.