Canvas Basics
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Which browsers does Canvas support?
What are the basic computer specifications for Canvas? [Minimum of 512kbps]
What is visible in Canvas Modules?
Setup Your Notification Preferences:how-do-i-set-my-notification-preferences
Canvas Adding Users
The INIT section – for assigning roles of Teacher, TA, Observer, Guest Lecturer and Auditor.
The MISC section – used to enroll students not on the normal class rolls (i.e. students making up incompletes)
What are Conferences?
They makes it easy to conduct synchronous (real-time) lectures and meetings, virtual office hours, and student groups. Currently, Canvas integrates with BigBlueButton.
Canvas Guides
Canvas Admin Training (RIGHT Click and Save as)
Canvas Instructor Training (vimeo)
Canvas Support Training (RIGHT Click and Save as)
- CANVAS TRAINING REQUIRES [WebExPlayer]
Canvas Instructor Orientation COURSE [17 - 3 min videos]
Canvas Instructor Overview [5 Modules / 31 steps & Quizzes]
- Import and Create Your Awesome Content (4 lessons)
- Build Your Awesome Assignments and Activities (4 lessons)
- Organize All That Awesome Course Material (3 lessons)
- Assess Those Awesome Assignment and Activities (3 lessons)
- Manage Your Students and Maintain an Awesome Course Presence (5 lessons)
Canvas Video Guide
Canvas What others have done
How do I start a Google+ Hangout On Air in my Canvas course?
How do I give my students extra credit?
How do I automatically assign peer reviews?
What is the difference between a Canvas Assignment and a Canvas Activity?
Canvas Public Courses
Files tool - {top}
Read additional information about the files tool below:
- What are Files?
- How do I move and organize my files?
- Where are my personal Files?
- Where are my course Files?
- Where are my group Files?
- How do I create a folder in Files?
- How do I add a file to my course?
- How do I preview a file?
- How do I import .zip files?
- How do I bulk upload files to my course?
- How do I delete a file?
- How do I download a single file?
- How do I download a folder in .zip format?
- How do I lock files and folders in Canvas?
- What document types does Canvas convert using the Scribd preview?
- What types of media files can be uploaded into Canvas?
- What is my File Storage quota for my course?
- Where is the HTML Editor?
- How do I use the HTML Editor?
Pages - {top}
Below are all the tutorials related to Pages:
- How do I upload a PDF to a Page?
- How do I create a new Page?
- How do I change a Page name?
- How do I edit Pages?
- How do I delete Pages?
- How do I link to other Pages?
- Where is the Front Page and how do I edit it?
- How do I embed a video in a Page?
- How do I create a file link in a Page?
- How do I view the history of my pages?
- Can students view the history of course pages?
- How do I start a Google+ Hangout On Air in my Canvas course?
Rich Content Editor - {top}
Below are all the tutorials related to RCE:
- What is the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I align text using the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I use the Font Size and Paragraph drop-down menus to style my text?
- How do I remove formatting from text I am pasting from another source?
- How do I create a bulleted or numbered list using the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I insert a table using the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I edit content in the HTML view in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I embed images from Canvas into the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I embed images from the web in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I pull in images from Flickr Creative Commons?
- How do I create a hyperlink in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I link to a YouTube™ video?
- How do I embed iFrame videos using the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I upload a video using the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I upload an audio file using the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I record a video using the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I record audio using the Rich Content Editor?
- What should I do if I can't record video comments with my webcam?
- How do I use the Math Editor?
- What is the Content Selector?
- How do I insert links to course content into the Rich Content Editor using the Content Selector?
- How do I insert course files into the Rich Content Editor using the Content Selector?
- How do I insert course images into the Rich Content Editor using the Content Selector?
- How do I set the auto-open for inline preview for Files using the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I disable inline previews for Files using the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I create a caption file for an external video?
- How do I create captions for new or uploaded videos in Canvas?
- How do I view captions in a video?
- How do I embed a dynamic Google document into the Rich Content Editor?
Syllabus - {top}
The following tutorials detail the course syllabus tool:
- What is the Syllabus?
- When would I use the Syllabus?
- How do I edit the Syllabus description?
- How do I navigate the Syllabus table and calendar?
- How do I make the Syllabus publicly visible?
Import Tools - {top}
The following tutorials provide additional details on the course import tools:
- What does the Course Import tool do?
- How do I import content from another Canvas course?
- How do I import a Canvas course export package?
- How do I import content from my old Blackboard course into Canvas?
- How do I import content from Moodle into Canvas?
- How do I import content from Angel into Canvas?
- How do I import content from Blackboard 6/7/8/9 into Canvas?
- How do I import content from Desire 2 Learn (D2L) into Canvas?
- How do I export a Canvas course?
Assignments - {top}
The following tutorials detail assignments:
- What are Varied Due Dates?
- What are Assignments?
- How do I view Assignments?
- What is the difference between a Canvas Assignment and a Canvas Activity?
- How do I create an Assignment shell on the Assignments page?
- How do I create varied due date Assignments?
- What are the different Assignment types?
- How do I edit Assignment details?
- How do I add or edit points for an Assignment?
- How do I add content to my Assignment?
- What are the different online submission types?
- How do I restrict online submission file types?
- What is the difference between due dates and availability dates?
- How do I delete an Assignment?
- How do I assign group work?
- How do I add a grading scheme to an Assignment?
- What is a peer review Assignment?
- How do I create a peer review assignment?
- How do I manually assign peer reviews?
- How do I automatically assign peer reviews?
- How do I automatically assign peer reviews after the assignment due date has passed?
- Can a student resubmit any Assignment?
- How do I enable Turnitin for an Assignment?
- How do I set a course submission comment for a Turnitin Assignment?
- What happens if there are Turnitin submission errors?
- Where can I find statistics about Assignments and submissions?
Discussions - {top}
The following tutorials detail discussions:
- How a student can upload an image in discussions
- What are Discussions?
- How do I use the Discussion Index Page?
- How do I pin a Discussion on the Index Page?
- How do I close a Discussion for comments?
- How are new Discussions different from old Discussions?
- What is the difference between Announcements and Discussions?
- When would I use Threaded Discussions?
- When would I use Focused Discussions?
- How do I create varied due date Graded Discussions?
- How do I start a Discussion?
- How do I edit a Discussion topic?
- How do I create a Threaded Discussion?
- How is a Threaded Discussion organized?
- How do I delete a Discussion topic?
- How do I set up a graded Discussion?
- How do I set up a Group Discussion Assignment?
- How do I enable a podcast feed for a Discussion topic?
- How do I delay posting a Discussion topic until a specific date?
- How can I require students to post to a Discussion before they see replies?
- How do I reply to a Discussion?
- How do I add content to my Discussion?
- How do I allow students to attach files to a Discussion?
- How do I allow students to start a new Discussion?
- How do I allow students to edit and delete their own Discussions posts?
- How do I edit or delete student Discussion posts?
- How do I attach a file to a Discussion reply?
- How do I link to a YouTube video in a Discussion reply?
- How do I insert an image file in a Discussion reply?
- How do I mark Discussion posts as read or unread?
- How do I manually mark my Discussion posts as read?
- How do I subscribe to a Discussion as an instructor?
Quizzes - {top}
The following tutorials detail quizzes:
- What are the different types of Quizzes?
- How do I make a Quiz show one question at a time?
- What do one-question-at-a-time quizzes look like for students?
- How do I randomize the order of the questions on my quiz?
- What do Quiz results look like in Canvas?
- How do I create a new Quiz with individual Questions?
- How do I create a new Quiz with a Question Bank?
- How do I create a new Quiz with a Question Group?
- How do I create a new Quiz with a Question Bank in a Question Group?
- What options are available for Quizzes?
- How do I create varied due date Quizzes?
- How do I link course content to a Quiz question?
- How do I create a Multiple Choice question?
- How do I create a True/False question?
- How do I create a Fill-in-the-blank question?
- How do I create a Fill-in-Multiple-Blanks question?
- How do I create a Multiple Answers question?
- How do I create a Multiple Dropdowns question?
- How do I create Likert scale questions?
- How do I create a Matching question?
- How do I create a Numerical Answer question?
- How do I create a Formula question with a single variable?
- How do I create a Simple Formula question?
- How do I create an Essay question?
- How do I create a File Upload question?
- How do I create a Question Bank?
- How do I bookmark a Question Bank?
- How do I unbookmark a Question Bank?
- How do I delete a Question Bank?
- How do I move multiple questions from one bank to another?
- How do I move/copy a question from one bank to another?
- How do I import a Question Bank from one Canvas course to another?
- Once I publish my Quiz, how do I make additional changes?
- Once I publish my Quiz, what kinds of quiz statistics are available?
- Once I publish my Quiz, how can I give my students extra time or extra attempts?
- How do I make a Quiz available before or after the due date?
- How do I delete a Quiz?
- How do I import Quizzes from QTI packages?
- How do I export Quiz content?
- How do I align an Outcome with a Question Bank?
- How do I create a Survey?
- How do I view Survey results?
Grouping Assignments - {top}
The following tutorials detail assignment groups:
- How do I add Assignment Groups?
- How do I add an Assignment to an Assignment Group?
- How do I weight the final grade based on Assignment Groups?
- How Students join a group
Navigation - {top}
The following tutorials relate to course navigation:
- What is Course Navigation?
- How do I navigate a Canvas course?
- How do I reorder and hide Course Navigation links?
- What are Course Navigation indicators?
Modules - {top}
The following tutorials relate to modules:
- What are Modules?
- How do I create a new Module?
- How do I add items to a Module?
- How do I add duplicate Module items?
- How do I use duplicate Module items as checkpoints in my course?
- How do I use duplicate module items to remind students about important content?
- How do I reorder Modules on the page?
- How do I delete a Module?
- How do I add text to a Module?
- How do I edit Module items?
- How do I delete Module items?
- How do I reorder Module items?
- How do I require students to move through each Module item in order?
- How do I lock a Module?
- How do I set up prerequisite Modules?
- How do I add requirements to a Module?
- How do I expand or collapse Module contents?
- How do I view the progress of my students in Modules?
- How do I link to an un-configured External Tools in Modules?
- How do I link to an external URL in Modules?
Home Page Layout - {top}
The following tutorials relate to course home page layout:
Rubrics - {top}
The following tutorials relate to course rubrics:
- What is a Rubric?
- How do I create a Rubric?
- How do I add a Rubric to an Assignment?
- How do I add a Rubric to a Graded Discussion?
- How do I add a Rubric to a Quiz?
- How do I edit Rubric details?
- How do I use free-form comments instead of ratings in a Rubric?
- How do I find existing Rubrics?
- How do I manage course-level rubrics?
- How do I align an Outcome with a Rubric?
- How do I grade student work with Rubrics?
SpeedGrader™ and Crocodoc - {top}
The following tutorials related to SpeedGrader™ and Crocodoc?
- SpeedGrader Time and Date and file download
- What can I do with SpeedGrader™?
- How do I get to SpeedGrader™ from the Gradebook?
- How do I get to SpeedGrader™ from an Assignment, Quiz, or Graded Discussion?
- How do I evaluate assignments in SpeedGrader™?
- How do I open a Rubric in SpeedGrader™?
- How do I leave feedback for my students in SpeedGrader™?
- How do I view past versions of an Assignment in SpeedGrader™?
- How do I download Assignments in SpeedGrader™?
- How do I sort Assignments in SpeedGrader™?
- How do I get back to the Course Home Page from SpeedGrader™?
- How do I find a student submission in SpeedGrader™?
- How do I track my progress and the average grade in SpeedGrader™?
- How do I mute or unmute an Assignment in SpeedGrader™?
- How do I hide student names in SpeedGrader™?
- How do I use Crocodoc in the SpeedGrader™?
- How do I use Chrome's speech recognition feature to leave a comment in SpeedGrader™?
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Note: Files over 100MB and password-protected files will not be converted by Crocodoc.
Gradebook - {top}
The following tutorials relate to course grades: Before a course begins, go into the gradebook and MUTE all assignments. Then, unmute them as you grade to release the grades to students.
- What are Grades?
- What do the icons and colors in the Gradebook represent?
- How do I view assignment details in the Gradebook?
- How do I hide and filter students in the Gradebook?
- How do I enter and edit scores in the Gradebook?
- How do I use grading history in the Gradebook?
- How do I leave comments for students in the Gradebook?
- How do I send a message to my students from the Gradebook?
- How do I set a default grade for an Assignment?
- How do I curve Grades in the Gradebook?
- How do I adjust my Notification Preferences for Grades?
- How do I mute an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I evaluate group work?
- Where can I find the student view of the Gradebook?
- How do I view my students' total grades as a point value instead of a percentage?
- How do I sort my Gradebook?
- How do I change assignment group weights in the Gradebook?
- How can I view Grades for concluded student enrollments?
- How do I bulk download Assignment submissions in Canvas?
- How do I bulk upload Assignment submissions in Canvas?
- How do I download scores from the Gradebook?
- How do I upload changes to the Gradebook?
- How do I publish grades to Banner?
- How do I view the Student Interactions Report?
- What are "What-If" Grades?
- How does Turnitin work in the SpeedGrader™?
- Can I see Turnitin feedback in the Gradebook?
- How do I give my students extra credit?
Your Profile and Personal Settings - {top}
The following tutorials relate to profiles and personal settings:
- How do I access my personal Settings?
- How do I edit my Profile?
- How do I add a Profile picture?
- How do I change my Full Name, Display Name and Time Zone?
- How do I change my login password?
- How do I add an additional email address in Canvas?
- How do I change my default email address?
- How do I remove an SMS communication channel?
- How do I reset my password?
- How do I add an SMS communication channel in Canvas?
Notification Preferences - {top}
- How do Notification Preferences work?
- How do I set my Notification Preferences?
- What do each of the Notification Preferences mean?
Students Into Groups - {top}
The following tutorials relate to course-level groups:
Students with an INCOMPLETE: ADD them to the MISC section which is used to enroll student who are not on the normal class roll (i.e. a student making up an incomplete).
- What are Student Groups?
- How do I view Groups?
- Where do I find the Group sets that I already created?
- Which Groups am I enrolled in?
- How do I make a new set of Groups?
- How do I automatically create Groups?
- How do I manually create Groups?
- How do I expand and collapse Groups?
- How do I create self sign-up Groups?
- How do I automatically assign students to Groups?
- How do I allow students to sign up for their own Groups?
- How do I prevent students from switching groups in self sign-up Groups?
- How do I move a student into a different Group?
- How do I view what students are doing in their groups?
- How do I delete a set of Groups?
- How do I start a Collaboration with my Group?
- Group Creation and Management for Instructors (Video)
- Group Creation and Interaction for Students (Video)
Messaging System (Conversation Inbox) - {top}
The following tutorials relate to conversations:
- How do I adjust my Notification Preferences for Conversations?
- How do I access the Conversations Inbox?
- How is my Conversations Inbox organized?
- How do I find my unread messages in Conversations?
- How many messages are in this Conversation?
- What do comments from the SpeedGrader™ look like inside Conversations?
- How do I compose a message?
- How do I reply to a message in Conversations?
- How can I tell which course this Conversation belongs to?
- How do I send a message to an entire class?
- How do I privately respond to an individual in a larger Conversation?
- How do I forward a message from a Conversation?
- How do I delete a Conversation?
- How do I delete a message from a Conversation?
- How do I unsubscribe myself from a Conversation?
- How do I archive a Conversation?
- How do I add new people to an existing Conversation?
- How do I send a private message to an individual?
- How do I send a message to multiple individuals?
- How do I start a Conversation with a Student Group?
- How do I manage my Conversations in high enrollment courses?
- How do I delete a name from the To: field?
- Where is my original message in this Conversation?
- How do I attach a file to a message?
- How do I attach a media comment to my message?
- How do I filter Conversations?
- How do I star Conversations?
Navigating the Global Dashboard - {top}
The following tutorials relate to the global navigation:
- How do I view my courses?
- How do I use the Global Navigation Menu?
- How do I customize my Courses drop-down menu?
Miscellaneous - {top}
Parent / Child - Cross-Listing (Video)
Student View allows instructors to see the course as a student views it.
Outcomes
How do I create an Outcome for my course?
How do I find an Outcome to add to a course?
How do I find State or Common Core Standards to add to a course?
How do I create Outcome groups for my course?
Where do I find Outcomes reports for students?
How do I track student progress on a Learning Outcome?
How do I align an Outcome with a Question Bank?
Sneaky & Folders
- No Download on Videos
- class=" instructure_video_link instructure_file_link"
- class "instructure_inline_media_comment video_comment"
/content_exports
/undelete [last 25 items]
Extra Credit point only no weighting
Extra Credit point only WITH weighting (new assignment group needed)
Importing Spreadsheets [Preparing CSV] (using concatenate)
Download CSV from Canvas > Then Add Grades > ReUpload to Canvas
& OOPS
Canvas - Non-Registrar Course Request Help
e-Learning NR Course Request
SCORM
How do I import SCORM files as an assignment?