MTOnline: CANVAS INTRO notes - Music Together local FAMILY PORTAL
Special announcement for our Music Together of Newport County families:
re: our new CANVAS FAMILY PORTAL (or view this email via web here)
How are you all doing out there?
Starting to listen to your music? Checking out your songbook yet?
Starting to View the Videos?
Checked out our livestream happenings on Zoom? (More of those to come as well!)
Next step: our local FAMILY PORTAL on CANVAS
for our Music Together Online: at Home:
to help enrich and enhance your overall musical experience at home.
To help guide those at-home experiences,
you already have your take home materials,
and we will continue to stay in touch via email throughout each week.
In addition, we are excited to announce we have setup an online family portal,
using a system called “CANVAS".
Essentially it serves as a private and secure website / platform
for our class/group to use together: For currently enrolled families.
You will receive an INVITE from CANVAS
to your Primary email address that we use for class.
Please check your email for that.
When you receive that email from Canvas,
Choose "Get Started"
and then Choose to accept enrollment in that Canvas "Course".
Going there you'll be invited to create an account and a password for yourself.
That can be any password that you want to use (8 characters or more)
*Below see links for special VIDEO TUTORIALS
and Guides on how to setup canvas
Once there,
On our Canvas Webcourse / Portal You will find:
- An Online container for all the Videos and links:
all in one convenient place!
- Supplemental Resources and links for Class and Home
- A secure way to share your own :
Comments, Photos, Videos - respond, share with teachers
and other MT Family / Community Members!
It is Optional to use, yet I recommend it:
for it is meant to support and supplement the MT Class experience,
in a way that is meant to be more easeful, effective,
and efficient to use than relying solely on email communications.
Once setup,
You won't have to look through all your emails for our MT Video / Resource links :)
With CANVAS setup, you'll be able to have 24/7 access to everything we do,
at your fingertips.
HOW TO SETUP and USE:
A few basic points for setup and use,
First a few short Intro Setup videos
(Made for YOU from me - worth checking out, to make this easier)
See 1. How to LOGIN and CREATE an Account on CANVAS.
and once you're logged in / setup , then see:
2. A short Intro video about How to Begin Using our CANVAS Portal
Once you're setup,
here's the CANVAS Start Page to visit the Portal anytime, Hooray!:
https://canvas.instructure.com/
For More General Info about how to use Canvas:
https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10701
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HINT: After you're first setup that way,
via ideally a laptop or larger screen device,
with Logina and Password set...
then if you want to use CANVAS on a smaller screen (phone)
here are ways to later setup
the optional CANVAS Student App on your phone
for easy access.
An extra step to setup, but after setup, you'll see it's useful.
3. How to Download the CANVAS STUDENT APP
3a. Download for Apple Iphone / Ipad on APP Store
3b. Download for Android / Google via Google Play
4a. Video: Setup CanvasStudent App Via Password:
or 4b. Video: Setup CanvasStudent App via QR Code
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Important:
You will be receiving an email from CANVAS
asking you to login with your email.
Yes: Open that email:
and I recommend that you aim to at least login there and create a password soon
while it's fresh in your email,
so that you can check it out.
Also, if you have any questions,
you may ask me and I will walk you through how it all works.
It's all optional to use, as you'll still get emails from me,
but it will add to your experience and ease of use if you try it out.
More to come in the future, but for now, worth just checking out!
sincerely,
Mr. Christopher Kavi Carbone
Music Together of Newport County
[email protected]
(401) 846-9014
401-835-2165 (cell)
FYI: Why Canvas? from "Professor Carbone"
Some of you may know that in addition to my Music Together role,
I also serve as a faculty member
teaching at Salve Regina University in our Graduate Programs.
There, we've used CANVAS
as high-powered yet accessible learning management system (LMS)
for our University courses for years -
and I've come to see it from an Educator's perspective
as a valuable way
to organize and deliver learning resources for classes.
From a student / participant's perspective,
it's an easy way to keep track
of all notes and resources for a class all in one place.
So it takes a few minutes to setup and learn,
but once you do, it's there for you for the whole session,
and you'll be able to even more clearly see
the whole educational picture that we're presenting for our Music Together curriculum:
so it's worth trying out -
Any questions please be in touch.
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re: our new CANVAS FAMILY PORTAL (or view this email via web here)
How are you all doing out there?
Starting to listen to your music? Checking out your songbook yet?
Starting to View the Videos?
Checked out our livestream happenings on Zoom? (More of those to come as well!)
Next step: our local FAMILY PORTAL on CANVAS
for our Music Together Online: at Home:
to help enrich and enhance your overall musical experience at home.
To help guide those at-home experiences,
you already have your take home materials,
and we will continue to stay in touch via email throughout each week.
In addition, we are excited to announce we have setup an online family portal,
using a system called “CANVAS".
Essentially it serves as a private and secure website / platform
for our class/group to use together: For currently enrolled families.
You will receive an INVITE from CANVAS
to your Primary email address that we use for class.
Please check your email for that.
When you receive that email from Canvas,
Choose "Get Started"
and then Choose to accept enrollment in that Canvas "Course".
Going there you'll be invited to create an account and a password for yourself.
That can be any password that you want to use (8 characters or more)
*Below see links for special VIDEO TUTORIALS
and Guides on how to setup canvas
Once there,
On our Canvas Webcourse / Portal You will find:
- An Online container for all the Videos and links:
all in one convenient place!
- Supplemental Resources and links for Class and Home
- A secure way to share your own :
Comments, Photos, Videos - respond, share with teachers
and other MT Family / Community Members!
It is Optional to use, yet I recommend it:
for it is meant to support and supplement the MT Class experience,
in a way that is meant to be more easeful, effective,
and efficient to use than relying solely on email communications.
Once setup,
You won't have to look through all your emails for our MT Video / Resource links :)
With CANVAS setup, you'll be able to have 24/7 access to everything we do,
at your fingertips.
HOW TO SETUP and USE:
A few basic points for setup and use,
First a few short Intro Setup videos
(Made for YOU from me - worth checking out, to make this easier)
See 1. How to LOGIN and CREATE an Account on CANVAS.
and once you're logged in / setup , then see:
2. A short Intro video about How to Begin Using our CANVAS Portal
Once you're setup,
here's the CANVAS Start Page to visit the Portal anytime, Hooray!:
https://canvas.instructure.com/
For More General Info about how to use Canvas:
https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10701
-----
HINT: After you're first setup that way,
via ideally a laptop or larger screen device,
with Logina and Password set...
then if you want to use CANVAS on a smaller screen (phone)
here are ways to later setup
the optional CANVAS Student App on your phone
for easy access.
An extra step to setup, but after setup, you'll see it's useful.
3. How to Download the CANVAS STUDENT APP
3a. Download for Apple Iphone / Ipad on APP Store
3b. Download for Android / Google via Google Play
4a. Video: Setup CanvasStudent App Via Password:
or 4b. Video: Setup CanvasStudent App via QR Code
-----------------------
Important:
You will be receiving an email from CANVAS
asking you to login with your email.
Yes: Open that email:
and I recommend that you aim to at least login there and create a password soon
while it's fresh in your email,
so that you can check it out.
Also, if you have any questions,
you may ask me and I will walk you through how it all works.
It's all optional to use, as you'll still get emails from me,
but it will add to your experience and ease of use if you try it out.
More to come in the future, but for now, worth just checking out!
sincerely,
Mr. Christopher Kavi Carbone
Music Together of Newport County
[email protected]
(401) 846-9014
401-835-2165 (cell)
FYI: Why Canvas? from "Professor Carbone"
Some of you may know that in addition to my Music Together role,
I also serve as a faculty member
teaching at Salve Regina University in our Graduate Programs.
There, we've used CANVAS
as high-powered yet accessible learning management system (LMS)
for our University courses for years -
and I've come to see it from an Educator's perspective
as a valuable way
to organize and deliver learning resources for classes.
From a student / participant's perspective,
it's an easy way to keep track
of all notes and resources for a class all in one place.
So it takes a few minutes to setup and learn,
but once you do, it's there for you for the whole session,
and you'll be able to even more clearly see
the whole educational picture that we're presenting for our Music Together curriculum:
so it's worth trying out -
Any questions please be in touch.
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