The Learning Environment

The Learning Environment

This course and all of your ESP courses will be conducted entirely online. There are no set class meeting times, courses are mostly run asynchronously, meaning you can access the course at any time throughout the week vs attending a course at a specific time every week. Even though the courses are asynchronous, you will be required to complete weekly assignments for most courses.

Canvas

Canvas is Penn State's learning management system (LMS). It is where you can consult course calendars, communicate with your instructors and fellow students, submit assignments, receive feedback from the instructor, take online quizzes and surveys, and check assignment scores and course grades. 

Registered students in this course will have access to all course materials using Canvas. Canvas is your classroom. Because the course content is directly imported into Canvas for you, you don't have to leave Canvas to view the course content (unless there's a linklinks to external pages are provided.)

You should have learned about how to utilize Canvas when you completed the New Student Orientation, but we also discuss it in depth and include some tutorials in a later lesson.