Wiki Page, Canvas Admin Overview: [MODULE 1] Summary

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Module 1 Summary

Now that you've read and reviewed the materials in MODULE 1: Organize and Customize Your Canvas Instance, remember the following take-aways:

There are 3 Canvas environments...

Production environment for your live stuff - anything you do is reflected immediately in Canvas

Test environment for troubleshooting and testing out stuff - resets every week

Beta environment for playing with upcoming features and checking out new fixes in Canvas - updates every 3 weeks (7 days before going into production)

Teachers can access Beta environments

When it comes to Accounts and Sub-Accounts...

Everyone has 1 root account, but you can have multiple sub-accounts (and sub-sub accounts, sub-sub-sub accounts... you get the idea).

Sub-Accounts help to organize your Canvas account.

Consider if you want sub-account to mirror your organizational or SIS structure

Consider ways to establish roles and account-level permissions

Consider the type of data and reports you want to pull

Consider the shared resources you want to offer your users

Terms, Authentication, SIS can only be done at the root account level.

Settings are key in customizing and branding your Canvas...

Settings created at the root account are inherited at the sub-account. Know which settings can be changed or overridden at the sub-account.

Notifications, Announcements and specific user settings are only available and enabled at the root-account level.

Make your life easier by...

Automating processes, such as SIS imports

Integrating 3rd party platforms with Canvas via authentication and other LTIs

Import content such as SIS and SCORM objects

That's it!

You should be ready for the [MODULE 1] Quiz.