Dear West Allegheny Families,
We are excited to announce the launch of Canvas, West Allegheny's new Learning Management System (LMS). Canvas is a software platform that allows students, families, and teachers to create, access, and manage learning resources both inside and outside of the school building.
Canvas provides a consistent platform for assignments, assessments, and messaging that keeps everything simple and easily accessible. Canvas was chosen by a Tech Panel that included a team of West Allegheny teachers and administrators. It offers comprehensive features and integrates with many of the tools that our students and teachers already use.
Canvas will also allow us to use our 1:1 technology resources more effectively, and provide a consistent learning system for students who are returning to our classrooms this fall and for those who are participating in our Synchronous Online Learning Academy (SOLA) or West Allegheny Virtual Academy (WAVA).
Canvas and Skyward, the District's Student Information System, work together seamlessly and have the following breakdown of core functions:
