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Welcome to your Introduction to Canvas for Students at South Seattle College (SSC)!

To help you become familiar with and learn how to navigate within Canvas first self-enroll in this this orientation course by clicking the +Join this Course button (located top-right on this page).

All South instructors, regardless of whether the class is face-to-face, hybrid, or fully online, use Canvas to distribute course resources, collect student work, supplement cancelled or missed classes with online materials, and more. Learning Self-Certification Quiz Self-Certification Quiz Self-Certification Quiz how to use Canvas to participate in your classes will be vital to your success at South Seattle College.

We expect this course to take between 1-2 hours to successfully complete. We ask that you use the most up-to-date version of the Chrome, Firefox, or Safari web browsers, and that you complete this course from a desktop or laptop computer as much of the content will not work properly on phones or tablets, and students regularly experience problems with Internet Explorer and Edge browsers. Students using a screenreader should use Mozilla Firefox and either JAWS or NVDA if PC, or VoiceOver and Safari for Mac users.

For an introduction to Canvas, including help navigation this course, please watch the following video.

200 - Canvas Overview for Students from Instructure Community on Vimeo.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Access course materials and assignments instructions through Canvas
Use Canvas to upload submit coursework
Locate academic and technical support resources across campus and online

Course Checklist

In order to meet our outcomes for this module, we will complete the following activities and assignments:

Complete the Introduction to Canvas module
- Review all content in the module
- Complete the following:
  - Practice: Text Entry
  - Practice: File Upload
  - Practice: Discussion Forum
  - Practice: Quiz
Complete the Academic and Personal Resources & Help module
- Review all content in the module
Complete the Technical Resources & Help module
- Review all content in the module
Complete the Course Completion module
- Submit the Self-Certification Quiz
- Be sure to take a screenshot of your completed quiz and save your results, in case your instructors should require you to verify completion

Tips for Success

To help in the completion of this activity, you should…

To ensure you don't lose work, it is recommended that you use your computer's simple text editor (Notepad on a PC and TextEdit on a Mac), or a word processing application such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs to produce and edit your work. Then, when ready to share, you copy/paste the text you've produced into Canvas assignments, as necessary.

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