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Can I download my videos? Can I allow others to download my videos?

Yes and yes. Check out our articles below for instructions:

Can I download my videos? Can I allow others to download my videos?

Before you publish your Canvas course site, read the article Canvas Course Checklist on oregonstate.teamdynamix.com to make sure your site is ready to go.

If you are not sure what a Canvas course could look like, check out the example Canvas course templates below, and learn how to import the templates.

Is my Canvas course ready?

What do sections in my merged or crosslisted Canvas courses allow me to do?

Instructors with merged or crosslisted courses in Canvas have new features in Canvas. A few of the features allow the instructor to view which section of the course a student is enrolled in and assign differential due dates to individual sections.

Read the article Section functionality in combined and crosslisted Canvas courses on oregonstate.teamdynamix.com

What do sections in my merged or crosslisted Canvas courses allow me to do?

Can I enter an early-term grade and contact students through Canvas?

Yes, Canvas has built a new Canvas Analytics tool that will allow an instructor to message students based on their current course grade.

Read the article Communicate with students from Canvas based on their current course grade on oregonstate.teamdynamix.com

Can I enter an early-term grade and contact students through Canvas?

Can I adjust the due date on an assignment for one or a subset of students?

Yes, Canvas refers to this as creating a differentiated assignment and these assignments allow an instructor to provide an alternative due date for one or more student or assign a graded activity in Canvas to a subset of students, e.g. a graduate student-only assignment.

Read the article Adjust the due dates on a Canvas assignment for a subset of students on oregonstate.teamdynamix.com

Can I adjust the due date on an assignment for one or a subset of students?

What is Turnitin and how does it work?

Turnitin is a Web-based service that identifies passages in submitted papers that match passages in other sources, such as websites, articles in scholarly journals, and other student papers. TurnItIn then generates an Originality Report, which highlights passages of matching text. See more information on Turnitin here. Turnitin does not state outright whether or not plagiarism has occurred. Plagiarism is a large category that includes many different behaviors, ranging from poorly paraphrasing a cited source to purchasing a paper and submitting it as one’s own work. While no software can make a blanket statement about whether a paper contains plagiarism, Turnitin does provide originality reports that show which passages from submitted papers match other sources. To make a determination about whether a paper contains plagiarized material, analysis is required. Originality reports make analysis easier and more convenient.

What is Turnitin and how does it work?

How do I import a Word document?

The basic steps include:

Prepare your docx file: First, using the Styles menu (not the formatting menu) in Word, make sure you apply NORMAL styling to the entire document; and apply Heading1 style to your chapter headings.
In Pressbooks, go to: Left Menu/Tools —> Import.
Select: File Type: docx
Choose your file from your computer
Upload
Select which content/sections you want to import
Decide whether the content/sections are: front-matter, chapters, or back-matter
Import
Arrange your chapters in the right order
Test some exports, clean up markup, and off you go!

The Pressbooks User Guide provides more details, including tips for formatting your Word document prior to importing, and screenshots. It also provides a link to a YouTube tutorial video which may be useful to you.

How do I import a Word document?

What is Unizin?

Why did OSU select Canvas?

From 2012-2014 OSU investigated our options and needs for instructional innovation and technology. Over the course of our campus-wide inquiry, Canvas was preferred by students and instructors alike as the system and technology partner that is in the best position to help us meet our goals. Learn more about the decision for Canvas at OSU.

Why did OSU select Canvas?

Can I create a column in the Canvas gradebook for an in-class assignment?

Columns in the Canvas gradebook are directly linked to graded activities in the course. Creation of a graded assignment, graded discussion, graded quiz or a graded survey will result in the creation of an associated gradebook column in the course.

Read the article Set up and manage the Canvas gradebook on oregonstate.teamdynamix.com

Can I create a column in the Canvas gradebook for an in-class assignment?

What is NameCoach?

NameCoach is a tool that allows you to record your name pronunciation and set your pronouns. The recording and preferred pronouns will be available and visible to others in the course.

Read the article Use NameCoach to record name pronunciation and set pronouns on oregonstate.teamdynamix.com

What is NameCoach?

Can I copy (import) content from one Canvas course into another?

Yes, you can copy content from any course in which you have 'edit' permissions to any other course in which you have 'edit' permissions.

Read the article Copy (import) content from one Canvas course into another on oregonstate.teamdynamix.com

Can I copy (import) content from one Canvas course into another?

What are ReadSpeaker and ReadSpeaker TextAid?

ReadSpeaker and ReadSpeaker TextAid

ReadSpeaker is a screen reader tool enabled in Canvas. The tool can highlight and read aloud text on a Canvas page. Readspeaker is available to all Canvas users. ReadSpeaker TextAid (or TextAid) is an additional accessibility tool that allows users to have nearly any text highlighted and read aloud, including documents, websites, text composed by a user, and more. TextAid must be enabled by instructors within a Canvas course module for student to have access to the tool.

These tools make course content more accessible to all learners by enabling multiple learning modalities, but the tools are especially beneficial for learners with any of a variety of different reading and learning disabilities, and for those with English as a second language.

Read the article ReadSpeaker and ReadSpeaker TextAid in Canvas on oregonstate.teamdynamix.com

What are ReadSpeaker and ReadSpeaker TextAid?

Can I view grade information and Last Date of Activity (LDA) for students who have withdrawn from my course?

Yes, students who have withdrawn from your course will appear as 'inactive' students in your Canvas course.

Read the article View grade information and Last Date of Activity (LDA) for students who have withdrawn from a course on oregonstate.teamdynamix.com

Can I view grade information and Last Date of Activity (LDA) for students who have withdrawn from my course?

Can students view their Turnitin originality scores before an assignment is graded?

Yes, if the assignment is not muted; no, if the assignment is muted.

Can students view their Turnitin originality scores before an assignment is graded?