Chapter 4: Teaching Your Canvas Course

Now that you've built your course, you can look forward to your planning and hard work paying off. From this point on, we begin the actual teaching of your course, where your finely honed skills as an educator will guide you and your students through the course content to success. While the Canvas platform for teaching and learning may be new to you, it is important to keep in mind everything you know from being a real live teacher. Keep the basics in mind; try to find ways to get to know your students, maintain open communication, deliver insightful feedback, and provide opportunities to field questions and concerns. As you begin to teach your course, we will cover the following in this chapter:

• Communicating with participants through the Inbox feature
• Posting Announcements
• Providing feedback and grades
• Setting up synchronous meetings using Conferences

Everything you know from your experience as an educator can...