Question: What is CANVAS?

Answer: Canvas has been adopted the California Community College Online Education Initiative (OEI) as the Common Course Management System (CCMS). Canvas is being offered to all California Community Colleges along with multiple levels of integrated student services.

Question: Does LMS and CMS refer to the same thing?

Answer: Canvas is usually called a Course Management System (CMS). Within the OEI, Canvas is referred to as the CCMS. We usually refer to D2L as our LMS, Learning Management System. In this context, both CMS and LMS refer to the system which hosts online courses.

Question: Is ARC going to use Canvas?

Answer: After surveying our students and faculty, the district LMS workgroup, including ARC staff and faculty, has voted to make a recommendation to the District Academic Senate to consider participating in the OEI and adopting Canvas as our LMS. We will continue to post information as we receive it.