The purpose of this course:

Teachers will create a Canvas experience that supports student-centered, high quality learning both in-person and remote.
Provide students (as well as parents, supporting teachers, and administrators) a consistent experience across courses.
Help teachers use the Canvas learning management System (LMS) tools and features more effectively and to create more efficiencies.
Provide rationale and bring awareness to online course best practices such as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Quality Matters (AM)
Connect a student's learning experience in Canvas with our JoG (Journey of a Graduate Skills) to provide MSD of Warren Township students an engaging and valuable learning experience.

**Journey of a Graduate Skills**
	Citizenship Contributing to our community in a meaningful way	Participating in a digital community Demonstrating appropriate digital citizenship skills
	Collaboration Working with others to achieve better results	Participating through discussions Working with peers to enhance learning with external tool
	Content Knowledge Developing a strong foundation to support future learning opportunities	Participating a course Contributing to class assignments
	Communication Expressing ideas through listening, discussion, and awareness of impact	Participating in dialogue with teacher and peers Demonstrating multiple methods of communication (videos, comments, texts, email) Building relationships within a digital community and awareness of one’s digital footprint on others within the course
	Critical Thinking Engaging in analysis and reasoning to arrive at a conclusion	Participating in discussion based learning Participating in assignments and tasks Demonstrating understanding of content knowledge to arrive a new learning (google+ cloud, discussions, quizzes, studio)
	Resilience Using skills and strategies to thrive, adapt and overcome challenging situations	Participating in a complete course Navigating coursework in a virtual and/or in-person format Adapting to feedback and critiques within a digital community