To complete the Grades process, you need to make sure you’ve set up assignments correctly at the start of session, and run through a few checks at the end before grades are approved and transferred. The Gradebook Total in Canvas automatically calculates a student’s total. This is done via...
Talk to text A simple way to adapt a lecture for online delivery is to write it down. In this example, a guest lecturer has annotated their slides, providing a detailed yet engaging commentary that guides students through the learning materials. While being precise and thoroughly referenced, the text is relatively informal in style to help students feel directly addressed....
A poll can be embedded anywhere Canvas supports the Rich Content Editor. While editing content: Select Apps in the Rich Content Editor (the plug icon). If the Social Poll is one of your most frequently used tools in Canvas, it will appear in the shortcut menu in the Apps list....
A poll can be embedded anywhere Canvas supports the Rich Content Editor. While editing content: Select Apps in the Rich Content Editor (the plug icon) If the Comments Box is one of your most frequently used tools in Canvas, it will appear in the shortcut menu in the Apps list....
It’s possible to enable students to reply to announcements, but their replies will not appear in your Conversations Inbox as replies to announcements are not considered to be a conversation. Get an overview of how Announcements work in Canvas by watching the following video tutorial (2:23 min) You can...
Any user in the Canvas course can view and participate in a chat, but they must be actively viewing the chat to appear in the chat user list. Note that if there are a lot of students using Chat at the same time, it may be a little slow....
The following tutorial video (5:18) shows you how to create and manage Discussions. The Discussions Index page, available from the Discussions link in the Course Navigation menu, has global settings at the top of the page (see in the image below), followed by the Discussion groups . Individual...
You can edit your account profile and set your notification preferences in the Account section of the Global Navigation Menu. Your profile contains information about you anyone in Canvas can see when they click on your name. You may like to upload a profile picture, create a biography or...
Your Course site can be used in a number of ways. The most successful sites include a mix of student communication and course-related resources such as forms, Course Intended Learning Outcomes (CILOs), staff contact details and general links to student support services. Remember, your course site is not just...
Canvas uses some terms or labels which may be different from what you are used to. The glossary below provides you with definitions of common Canvas terms. We have resources for some of these terms that explain them further – click on any terms with an attached link to learn...
