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About the Canvas Templates

In support of the District’s response to coronavirus, and instruction in many courses moving into online and alternate instruction methods, eLearning across the District has collaborated to provide instructors with simple templates for using Canvas for Spring quarter. This is a basic course template that you can use to plug in content appropriate for your course and students. These templates are optional, but we hope will help for instructors who may never have used Canvas, or have never taught an online course, to ease the anxiety of starting from a blank Canvas shell. These templates are designed to:

Give you a starting structure that you can fill in, modify, or ignore as you need
Provide guidelines for students on getting started for students, help resources, and course communication, as developed by instructional designers and experienced online faculty
Provide placeholder discussions, assignments, and more, that you can edit and fill with your content to alleviate how much you have to build from scratch

Again, these are completely optional—if you are experienced in online course design, have already started building your course, or feel that the templates would be distracting or otherwise confuse you, then feel free to disregard. We are not automatically loading these templates into your courses—information on how to bring these into your courses is available below.

Preview the Templates

Spring 2020 eLearning Support

Click the video player above to watch a captioned video postcard from Kevin Bowersox-Johnson introducting these templates and other resources available to faculty during this unprecedented time.

Instructions for Loading the Templates Into Your Course

Download the Full Course Template Export File
Import the file into your empty course by following the instructions in this Canvas guide.

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