It is the second day of school in Castleberry and our 8th grade students are already being introduced to our new Learning Management System (LMS), Canvas! In Mr. Watson's Technology applications classes, students logged in for the first time today. Without any direction, Mr. Gavin asked his students to find his class and open it up. Without any questions asked, every student quickly found his course and were where they needed to be! For the students, the system seems to be very user friendly!
Second, Mr. Watson had created an assignment for the students to complete. The assignment required the students to open a Word document and then type all the ways that they use technology in their everyday lives. One they were finished, they saved the document to their user folder and then uploaded it to Mr. Watson via the upload in the assignment. This time, Mr. Watson walked them through the process to make sure there were no issues.
Once the student's assignments were submitted, Mr. Watson and I looked at what the teacher would see with these submissions. All I can say is that it is incredible!! When the teacher opens the assignment in SpeedGrader, it automatically opens the Word document and allows the teacher to leave comments and enter a grade without having to download anything! With a simple click of an arrow, you are on the next student and ready to grade!
However, if you did find the need to download the individual Word documents, it was very easy to click on the Export link and the files are downloaded to your Downloads folder as a zipped file. When we extracted and opened the zipped file, the students first and last name was already assigned to each file name! Teachers will no longer have to try to depend on the students to name their files correctly!
This is going to be a super year, and Canvas is going to help streamline how lessons are delivered and how assignments are turned in and graded!
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