Wiki Page, GOTT Clover II: Sharing OER on Canvas Commons

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2016-08-14T21:37:16-06:00

Share to Canvas Commons

Once you have developed your lesson, you are ready to share the Course you created in Canvas with others in Canvas Commons. In this video (3:29 minutes), you will learn how to share courses, as well as individual content, items to Commons.

Describing Your Resource For Others

When sharing a resource to Canvas Commons, you must add information about the resource. Providing relevant descriptive information about your lesson greatly increases its discoverability by users looking for open educational resources (OER) for adult education. Canvas Commons uses the descriptive information you include to match relevant resources to a user's search for materials. Therefore, it is critical that you provide accurate and thorough details to inform a search. The following is an overview of the available resource descriptors with recommendations on what information to include to reach the broadest audience

Choose a Content License

Select a license from the Copyright and Licenses drop-down menu to share your resource in the way that works best for you. The list below shows the available copyright and license combinations (listed from least restrictive to more restrictive):

Public Domain

CC - Attribution

CC - Attribution ShareAlike

CC - Attribution NoDerivs

CC - Attribution NonCommercial

CC - Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike

CC - Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivs

Copyrighted

Add Metadata

As shown in the figure above, add metadata for your resource under the following headings:

[1] Title: Edit the title of your resource if necessary. This will be pre-populated based on the resource name.

[2] Description: Enter a brief description (i.e. abstract) for your resource. This abstract should be concise, and include a short written summary of your lesson to help others find your lesson during a search. In crafting your description, make sure you are answering the following questions:

What is the topic of the lesson?

Who is the target learner audience?

How will the learners benefit from taking your instruction?

What will be covered in this lesson?

[3] Tags: Enter tags (i.e. keywords) to make it easy for other users to find your resource (at least one tag is required). Tagging your resource with descriptive information about your lesson increases its discoverability when users search for materials. To help track resources created for this course, please include:

Adult Education

Designers for Learning

[A list of additional keywords or short phases to help describe the lesson content]

[4] Image: Select an image from Flickr (default) or upload your own image. Select an image is not available for image or video resources

Chose Grades and Outcomes

Grade/Level: Select the appropriate grade level(s). Note there is no option for "Adult Basic Education", so please select the respective College and Career Readiness Standard (CCRS) grade level range (e.g. Grade E = 9 - 12)

Outcomes: Again, unfortunately, there is no option to select Adult Education CCRS, and the default outcomes are based on K12 Common Core Standards. This is why it is vital to use a relevant description and appropriate tags when sharing your resource (see above). HOWEVER, we have found the applicable CCRS standard is often in the database when you paste in the applicable CCRS standard description in the "Search for standards by keyword".

Want to know more?

The following highlights other features of Canvas Commons with links to the applicable instructions in the Canvas Commons Guide (highlighted in yellow in the figure below):

Find resources (Links to an external site.) by searching for a specific keyword, author, institution, or title.

Import a resource into a Canvas course (Links to an external site.). Once the import to Canvas is complete, you can start using and customizing your resource.

View resources you've shared to Commons (Links to an external site.) to use, update, or remove the resource.

Update resources previously shared to Commons (Links to an external site.). If you modify a resource in Canvas that was previously shared to Commons, you can reshare the modified resource to Commons and the existing resource in Commons will be updated.