It is very important to design an online course in a way that supports students to get started on the right foot. This means that when a student logs in to your course for the first time, they can easily navigate to the pertinent areas (syllabus, course expectations, instructor introduction). A well-designed course ensures that your students will not have to spend time searching for what they need, and instead focus their full attention on the actual content in your course.

This module serves as an example of an online course orientation. As you complete the orientation activities, reflect on your experiences as a student in in this course (for instance, can you easily find what you need?), and think about how you might orient students to your own online courses.

Canvas Overview

Visit the Canvas Getting Started Spaces Page
Review the Canvas Student Orientation
Review Notification Settings
Post to the Introduction Discussion
Review help resources

Canvas Support

24/7/365 support is available to everyone in the UW system.
- 24/7/365 by phone 1-833-811-3207
- 24/7/365 by email support@instructure.com
- 24/7/365 by chat is available from the login page
- Additional help is available in the Help button after logging in: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-12877-4152719652

Canvas Getting Started

Review the Canvas Student Orientation:

This resources contains information on getting started, training opportunities, building your Master Course, and setting up your Semester course.

https://spaces.uww.edu/display/instructional/Canvas+Getting+Started

Orientation Details

Review the Canvas Student Orientation: go.uww.edu/canvas-student-training

As a student in OTI, it is important to understand the student perspective for online blended courses. In this brief tour, you learn some of the main features of Canvas. Providing brief links like this one can serve as effective orientations for your own courses, focusing your students on the most important aspects.

Review Notification and completing your Profile

Optional steps that might help you settle in to the Canvas experience would be to set up your personal notifications, and finish your personal profile.

112 - Notification Preferences from Canvas LMS on Vimeo. (4min 28sec)

111 - User Settings & Profile Picture from Canvas LMS on Vimeo. (5min 24sec)