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Canvas – Our New Learning Management System
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Canvas – Our New Learning Management System
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Canvas was selected because of its reputation for excellence and its suitability for our needs. Many students will find that this is the system they encounter when they move beyond Brigidine College to university, because it is the system of choice in most educational institutions across the world.
The implementation of Canvas began in Term 4, 2021 with Year 12 course enrolments. Teachers bravely ventured into the new system, published their course content and began using the platform to post content and assess students.
In 2022, all students and teachers are using Canvas and have completed some training in its use. The Year 7 Orientation program was successfully run over three days, with training in Canvas one of the key sessions. We are very pleased with students’ progress and view this as a move into a better future of teaching and learning.
Canvas is a collaborative online learning platform which allows teachers to design teaching and learning activities in units of work called modules for students. There are lots of third-party integrations of products like Campion MyConnect digital textbooks, Mathspace, Education Perfect and Stile which makes learning simpler for students. All their learning occurs in one place and students do not need to leave Canvas. These products can be utilised to enable teachers to differentiate student work to address the diversity of learners in our classrooms.
There are many interactive features in Canvas, including discussions and quizzes which can allow for instant feedback on students learning. The online mark book in Canvas is very flexible and allows for written, aural and visual feedback. Now that we have resumed a short period of ‘off-site learning’ Canvas allows us to use the Zoom integration within each course to enable students to quickly join meetings with their teacher from their Dashboard calendar.
Canvas allows us to meet our strategic goals to improve student learning experiences, improve our data collection, integrate most of our online services and tools right in the student’s course, and enable teachers to give timely feedback to students.
