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Course Overview

What is this course about, anyway?

This self-paced Canvas Admin Overview is designed to familiarize Canvas administrators with the need-to-know settings and features of Canvas in order to optimize their Canvas instance and provide smooth transition for their organization. Whether you’ve never administered a learning platform or have worked with many LMS, you’ll want to stick around for this course.

We know Admins have a lot of people relying on them and this course was created with ADMINS in mind.

What this course is NOT.

This course is not a glorified tutorial. In other words, we are not going to show you a step-by-step process in setting up and implementing your Canvas instance. For one, all administrators (and Canvas clients) have different needs and customization requests. And two, we’ve got hundreds of guides and video tutorials that demonstrate (in detail) the admin side of Canvas. Instead, we’ll highlight key components to help you set-up, organize and manage your Canvas instance, effectively.

Who is the intended audience for this course?

Wondering if this course is for you? If you identify with any of the following statements below then your answer is “yes, this course is for you”:

I’ve never administered an LMS or a learning platform before and I’ve no clue where to start in Canvas!

My supervisor just told me we’re transitioning to Canvas and I have to learn more about the admin side of this platform - stat!

Oh, no! Our courses start in a few weeks and I don’t know the first thing about transferring data, users, courses into our instance of Canvas.

I’m fairly tech-savvy and could probably figure out Canvas on my own, but I need a smart, to-the-point overview to get me focused in the right direction.

I'm going to train other admins on Canvas and would like ideas on what topics I should cover.

I’m curious about into leveraging Canvas platform for use in my organization or institution. A good, solid overview is what I need.

Whatever your reasons, we hope you find value in progressing through this course.

How much time will this course take me, really?

This is a self-paced course, which means you can take as long as you need to progress through the materials. But we realize admins have limited time to juggle their workload (let alone, learn a new learning platform). If we were to quantify this course in hours, expect to spend between 2 to 2.5 hours on this course.

Who designed this course?

This course is a collaborative effort among the rockin' training team and awesome group of instructional designers at Instructure.

Allison Weiss

Jordan Dayton

Dianna Lee

Carrie Saarinen

Beth Kramer

Scott Dennis

Sam Spendlove

Erin Hallmark

Alli Brown

Katie Hocevar

Biray Seitz

Let's give 'em props!