Using Slides in Canvas

Now that you've practiced using some of your new Google Doc collaboration skills, I'm going to talk with you briefly about some ways to make use of your Google Drive in your Canvas courses.

The first way is embedding slides

Have you ever wanted to share a slide deck with your students so they could browse and read on their own? Google Slides is one of the best tools for this. You can upload your PPT file or create a new slide deck in slides and then embed it into your canvas module as an external URL, or directly into a content page like this one just like you may have done with a video or a picture. 

Here I have embedded the slides from the presentation that you just contributed too. Notice that slide you just created is included. This is the power of having the slides in your Google Drive (one central location) and simply sharing them with your students in different courses. No versions or copies to try and keep track of and manage as you teach multiple sections over multiple years.

 

 

To do this, click on your File menu on your google slides. Select "Publish to web" and in the Embed tab choose the size you want, copy the embed code, and click Publish.

Find the Canvas page you want to embed the slides into, open the HTML editor and past the code where you want it. Save the page. Your slides are right on the page, and if you make any changes the slides will update themselves in all the courses they're being used in. Notice also, that any hyperlinks in the slides are still active as well. Very convenient and powerful. 

Click Next to learn about using Docs in a similar way.