>> And welcome to the Canvas fast track.
In this two-and-a-half-minute video, we will discuss when,
where, why, and how linking online textbooks
and resources can be made easy and accessible for students.
Here are some suggested locations
to embed those online resources and books
for your students to access.
As an FYI, there is not a way to embed most textbooks in Canvas
or an entire library, but there are great strategies for how
to link them so that it's consistent and easy for students
to access the content they need to be successful.
The following areas are suggestions
where others have added these resources and why they have.
Have a course homepage.
Creating a homepage that welcomes students to the class
and then creating a button with the image of the book
or resource they will be accessing is a great way
for our younger learners and learners with special needs
to see what's coming up.
A number of districts have found it incredibly helpful
for students when joining a class
to know exactly what resource they'll be utilizing.
Course navigation is another great location,
utilizing the redirect tool, and LTI,
we'll cover in another session.
You can add course textbook links that will send students
out to the website for your book.
This can also work at the course level or sub account
or even root account level as well.
Need a permanent link to the school library
or to a public library?
Add it in at the account level.
Assignments are great as well.
If you're assigning reading as homework or a jigsaw activity,
add it right to the assignment
and it will appear automagically on the calendar.
When the student views their to-do list and clicks
on the assignment, the textbook link is right there
where they can see exactly what they need to do.
Speaking of the calendar,
if you assign a chapter a week, that's great.
Create an event titled the chapter the student needs
to read and then create either hyperlinks, buttons,
or images that will allow the students to click on those
and access their reading.
Last but not least, if you're using modules as your homepage
or as a course outline, add a link to your unit chapter lesson
so that students can have the requirements to access and view
that link for just a few seconds.
This also helps with tracking
and monitoring the progress of a student.
In a future recording, we will talk about the benefits
of module progressions.
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