Canvas Ambassador

July 10, 2024 Teacher
Leader Session

SY 2024-2025

Canvas
Ambassadors

Agenda:
Canvas
Enhancement
Brainstorm

Welcome and Icebreaker

Guided Brainstoring: Needs,
Successes, & Changes

Wrap-up Activity

Next steps

Icebreaker: One Word

Canvas

What is one word that describes your Canvas experience so far?

Word Cloud

Icebreaker: One Word Canvas

What is one word that describes your Canvas experience so far?

Canvas Brainstorming: Needs

General Discussion:

What aspects of Canvas create the most challenges for teachers and students?

Are there any workflows or tasks that feel unnecessarily complicated?

Venn Diagram Activity:

Open Ended

What aspects of Canvas create the most challenges for teachers and students?

Open Ended

Are there any work flow or tasks that feel unnecessarily complicated?

Canvas Brainstorming: Needs

General Discussion:

-What aspects of Canvas create the most challenges for teachers and students?

-Are there any workflows or tasks that feel unnecessarily complicated?

Venn Diagram Activity:

Canvas Brainstorming: Needs

General Discussion:

What aspects of Canvas create the most challenges for teachers and students?

Are there any workflows or tasks that feel unnecessarily complicated?

Venn Diagram Activity:

Draw

Within your group, brainstorm the specific needs of the user groups. (Parent, student, teacher)

Canvas Brainstorming: Successes

What aspects of Canvas
work particularly well for

our schools?

What features have been
most positively received
by teachers and students?

Can you share examples
of Canvas being used in
effective or innovative
ways? Please share in

OneNote

Open Ended

Can you share examples of Canvas being used in effective or innovative ways?

Open Ended

What aspects of Canvas work particularly well for our schools?

Open Ended

What features have been most positively received by teachers and students?

Open Ended

Can you share examples of Canvas being used in effective or innovative ways?

• If you could wave a magic wand, what would you change about Canvas?

• What specific modifications would make the biggest impact on our usage?

• Are there any features you would like to see added, removed, or modified?

Canvas Brainstorming:
Changes

• Partner up with the person sitting to your right

• Choose one of the topics below:

• Gradebook, Module Design,

Page Design, Discussion Boards,
or Calendar

• Use the template in your OneNote to complete this activity

Changes Activity: Canvas
Redesign

• What is one thing that you WISH Canvas would do better?

• Why?

• How would this be helpful?

•Use OneNote to complete this
activity; when finished please
complete the "Wish List" and “Reflect” slide in
OneNote
(Your name>Professional Development)

Exit Ticket: Wish

List Canvas