So right here next, the module. I'm
going to click the gray plus arrow here. Actually, let me do it
on this first module, our substitute module,
Great plus arrow. And it brings up this dialog box that looks
like this from here. When I click on the drop down, you'll
see a whole bunch of options here. Assignment,
quiz, file, page discussion. All of that. Um,
you have the option to add a variety of different things. And again, you
may not have this option depending on how you're added to the course.
But we will show it so that you are familiar. Um, enough.
So I'm going to go ahead and choose assignment,
which is the first option assignment does require
student interaction, meaning the students typically have to submit something
Assignment, quiz and discussion. Our
student interactions where students are actually participating in
something. Page file. Um,
external, you are or external. You are all just like view on lee
situations for content purposes on Lee.
Um, so I just wanted to point that out. I'll go ahead and
click. Um, discussion. Actually, let's do discussion, which is
where students can basically chat back and forth
online with each other on, like a, like a
virtual board, if you will. I'm gonna click new
topic, and I'm gonna put here any topic that I wanted to
do. Introduce
yourselves upstairs. Oh, after
that?
Yes, To backtrack a little bit, just in case. Um, when I added,
when I chose to add something to the module, I just click the great
Plus from the drop down. I'm choosing discussion. You do have
a variety of things that you can add, and I mentioned my
discussion, assignment and quiz are the things
that students are interacting with meaning like they physically have to type
something or sub, submit something or answer
questions the other ones, like file and page or for
information purposes on Lee. I'm gonna click discussion
new topic, and I put introductions discussion
on item. It's going to pop in at the very
bottom. You'll notice there's that icon here,
the little bubble speech bubble icons,
which indicates it's a discussion. I'm going to
click onto it
and I see that edit button. If you don't see that edit button like if you click on a
discussion, you don't see that edit button. It's because you have not been
given access. And so that is not, you know, your fault that you have not
been given access. And if your administration is expecting
you to edit, you do have to let them know. Hey, I do not have access to edit, so
I'm gonna go ahead and click edit just because I can hear
edit, you'll notice that the top is the title of the
discussion, the title that I gave it. You'll also notice this rich content
editor that you saw for the announcement. Any time that you're
editing something in canvas, you will see this rich content
editor so again in here, I can type
in whatever I want my students for the students to respond
Thio. So, you know, if you wanted to introduce
yourselves 3 to 5, this
is tell me what's your favorite
subject is
abbey
and, um okay.
Oh, you know, this is just an example, right? Discussions do
require a prompt when you're setting them up just because the students will be
replying to them. So I do. I do want to point that
out. If you did want to upload like a picture for any
reason to make it more engaging and again as a daily substitute, you will
most likely not have to be doing too much of this
building. But you know, the way things are, maybe you'll become an interim. So maybe you're you
know, you're looking to become a regular teacher in the classroom. So
we want to make sure we just give you all the tools that you may need,
um, in the future So you can also add an
image if you wanted Thio, this little icon right here. If you click
on the drop down, you can upload an image from your computer.
If you have one on your computer, I'm gonna click right here. If I click
there, it pulls me into my computer. And Aiken, you
know, include an image that I currently have on my
computer. Um, I'm just using. This is an
example. Obviously, your image would be something related, but you'll see the image pop up
right there. If you click on the image, you can resize
it. It is limited in terms of like how much of the size and you can do, and you'll
notice I can only resize from the corners. Not anything else. But you
can do this with any image if you want. Yeah,
um,
a couple other things that you can also add if you wanted to add a
link, Um, if you wanted to add an external link meaning you want a
link to a different website. But you wanted to link them to this
PBS kids website. I had to pull up the website
first in a different tab. Click in my
browser. I'm going to right click. Just to show you the copy option.
You can, of course, use the shortcut on your computer if you know it, which
is control C. Otherwise, just make sure it's highlighted
and you can right click and copy when I go back into
my discussion tab, Um,
click on this link to access PV.
So if typically, we recommend that instead of
just pasting that link in here sometimes links already
long and they're not very friendly to the especially
for students and anyone really accessing a website no one likes
to see. Like a weird link with all the dots on there. We
typically suggest that you include the text that you
want them to click on, so click on this link to access PBS
kids, I'm actually going to highlight this whole thing because I want this
whole thing to be my link
from the top. This little chain is that
insert link. I'm going to click on the arrow right next to the chain. And
this is an external link, which means it's not
in the course. It's like a outside
website. I'm gonna click External link. And here we
go. I'm just gonna hit paste right there. Done
as you see now, it's that typical
Balu link look that we see
in canvas throughout. Right now, it just looks like
this. I do have the option to remove the link. If I wanted to remove
it at this point, and I will see how that link works. Once I
save, you
can click graded here. Great. It is good. Even just because it shows in the
speed greater. Um, which we'll talk about in a little bit and
again. You may not have access to that, but we typically just put grated here.
You can't get points. And again, you mean not ever really
need to do this, But we just want to show it for the purposes of you being
familiar. This is for a great book purposes.
May be the teacher has given you access so that, you know,
you are able to at least get the set up for them.
Depending on what kind of relationship you have with the teacher.
We always recommend giving due dates
and biggest, most important piece. It's to save and
publish or save. Save means it just saves. It's
not accessible to students yet. Um, save and
publish, um, gives you
publishes automatically, which means the students can see it. I'm gonna go
ahead and click, save and publish. This is what the students
would see. Here's the little link they would click reply to
reply. So as you notice, right, the rich content
editor, As long as you're familiar with that, that's the biggest piece there.
When I go back into my modules,
I see that the substitute module is publishes green so it
looks good and that this introductions discussion is also published,