[ARCHIVED] Career Services and Canvas?

[mfuto]

Hello Canvas Community! 

I work at the Florida State University Career Center and we are beginning to brainstorm ways LMS integration can enhance career services engagement. 

If you have any experience, thoughts, or suggestions about how we can leverage Canvas features to share our weekly newsletter, connect students with employers, and highlight events and resources I would love to hear from you! 

If not, best practices with using Canvas for non-academic purposes would be wonderful as well. 

Thank you so much! 

Cheers, 

Michelle

[at0996]

It looks like you and I are in the same boat. We are looking to use canvas to disseminate career/graduate school information. We will also be using our canvas group for announcements and some academic advising information. I just asked the question-- I am hoping to get some good ideas (just anything really) to make our canvas page/group a useful tool for students.

-Solaf (Academic Advisor)  

[bp2uc]

Hi! I know this was posted awhile ago but I am just getting around to utilizing the community more. At my institution, I work as an online student support specialist, which really is a catch-all for supporting online students AND on-campus students with Canvas questions. I moderate a virtual community within Canvas that every student (online and on-campus) is enrolled in. It appears in their Dashboard and I have all school events on the course calendar. We are working to make every on-campus event accessible to online students via live streaming or Zoom, and then we upload recordings of the events onto the page. Right now, we have several modules accessible to students that are themed by student need. The modules are:

Orientation 

Frequently Requested resources (library, programmatic information, etc)

Our institutions Common Read 

Recorded lectures and events

We also post discussions about twice a month, along with announcements about various programs and events. Students are separated into sections by which programs/majors they're in and we are able to target various announcements and discussions that way as well. I hope this is helpful!