Page Created by Dustin Worm for UCET Presentation "Keep Your Canvas Clean" (April 2015)

13 Reasons Your Brain Craves Infographics

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A Few Cool Stats:

1. 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual,

and visuals are processed 60,000X faster in the brain

than text. (3M Coperation)

2. Facebook photo albums receive 180% more

engagement than a normal post.

3. Visual aids in the classroom improve learning by up

to 400 percent. (3M Coperation)

4. People following directions with text and illustrations

do 323% better than people following directions without

illustrations. (Levie, W. J. & Lentz, R.)

5. Researchers found that colour visuals increase the

willingness to read by 80%. Green, R. (1989).

Sample Homepages

Tips for making your Canvas Home Page Visual

These tips may also apply to other pages!

(Suggestions based on experience)

1) Images MUST be the same size

2) Image size 255x191

3) Indicate "Current Unit" in Red

4) Banner width should be no longer than 950

5) When creating a table, do not use more then 3 columns.

6) Screen Shot = shift + command + 4 (Mac)

**RENAME screenshots**

Step 1.png

Tool:

Why this Tool?

Quick Steps to Make Buttons

~ Super easy and free.

~ Helps prevent wordy buttons

~ Finding images is quick

A. Make each slide a button

B. Export your Haiku Deck as a PowerPoint (.PPT) file by choosing the export button.

C. Open the powerPoint File and choose "Save as Pictures" from the "File" menu.

This will create a JPEG for each slide.

D. Choose "Options..." in the Save Screen and change the width to 255 and click OK.

E. Choose location to save to and click "Save." A popup window will appear, click OK.

F. There is now a folder with each slide as a JPEG image file.

Doesn't every teacher

know PowerPoint. PERIOD!

A. Make each slide a Button.

B. Choose "Save as Pictures" from the "File" menu. This will create a JPEG for each slide.

C. Choose "Options..." in the Save Screen and change the width to 255 and click OK.

D. Choose location to save to and click "Save." A popup window will appear, click OK.

E. There is now a folder with each slide as a JPEG image file.

Step 2.png

Adding a group of images is super easy by using the "File" link located

in the course navigation. For this step we will be skipping ahead to file

management, we will come back to it shortly.

1. Click on "Files" located on the left side of your screen.

2. Create a new folder titled "HomePage" to place any images or files that

will be located on your home page.

3. There are to fast ways to do this:

A. While having your new folder open, drop and drag the image files,

your buttons, into the folder (Video right)- BLAZING FAST

B. While having your new folder open, click upload, and choose

images.

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Step 3.png

1. Insert a table on to your home page.

Tip #1 The table should not have more than three columns when

creating a table for a visual home page.

Tip #2 If you want to place dates above the unit button, double the

number of rows in the table. This will help students and

parents with navigation (Suggested). If you choose to insert

date ranges, before going to step 2 enter coming soon to all

odd numbered rows. (Sample Right)

2. With the cursor in the cell you would like to insert the first image

button, choose the image from the navigation on the right side of

your screen, "Insert Content into this Page." When you click the

image, the button will be inserted.

3. Repeat step 2 for all of your unit buttons.

4. To link the image to a unit page, the unit module, or other canvas

content click on the image in your table and then choose the desired

location from the navigation on the right side of your screen, "Insert

Content into this Page" under "links."

5. Repeat step 4 to link your other buttons. If you change the content

pages name, module name, discussion name, etc. you will need to

relink the button.

6. Test the links!

Tip #2 Sample

Table sample!.png

Adding Buttons

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Downloads of Unit Pages (NOT HOMEPAGE)

Unit Page Layouts with Blue bars Content Pages: Download

Unit Page Layouts with Purple Bars

Word Document with Unit Page Bars template: Download