Canvas Guides

Canvas
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Tuesdays at 11:00 AM

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The following collection of guides has been made available to Fox and STHM faculty to help facilitate the management of their Canvas courses.

Student assistance is available via the Canvas Community Student Guide.

General Settings

  1. Navigating Canvas
  2. Adjust Account and Notification Settings
  3. Sync Canvas Calendar
  4. Canvas Inbox – How to Email through Canvas
  5. Getting Started with Qwickly
  6. Auto Importing Canvas Course Groups in Zoom Breakout Rooms
  7. Embed an Image and a Video in Canvas
  8. New Analytics
  9. Canvas Support

Create Courses

  1. Create a Sandbox Course
  2. Create a Course Shell and Add Multiple CRNs
  3. Importing Course Content into Canvas
  4. Manually Enroll Students
  5. Updating Your Course Settings
  6. Renaming Your Course
  7. Adjusting Course Navigation Menu
  8. Adding Zoom to Course Navigation
  9. LTI Integration in Canvas (MH Connect & Pearson)

Course Setup

  1. Adding People to your Canvas Course
  2. Adding People to your Canvas Course when the ‘+People’ Button is Disabled
  3. Designating a Home Screen in Canvas
  4. The New Rich Content Editor
  5. How to Upload & Organize Files
  6. Create and Use Pages in Canvas
  7. Create and Use Modules in Canvas
  8. Create an Announcement in Canvas
  9. Publishing Your Course
  10. Canvas Collaborations

Create Assignments

  1. Create Assignments in Canvas
  2. Create Assignment Groups in Canvas
  3. Exams and Quizzes
  4. Create Discussion Boards in Canvas
  5. Create and Sync a LinkedIn Learning Course as an Assignment
  6. Adding a Rise Module as an Assignment
  7. Publishing Assignments
  8. Create an SFF Assignment

Grading

  1. GradeBook Basics
  2. SpeedGrader
  3. Rubrics
  4. Turnitin

ADA Compliance

  1. Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
  2. Checking Accessibility in Canvas
  3. DRS Accommodations
  4. Accessible Documents