Canvas

The Learning Platform Services and Ecampus teams have prepared reference guides on Canvas, Kaltura, Turnitin and more. Browse through the links on this page, and check out our upcoming and recorded webinars.

New to teaching with Canvas? Start here!

• Add a TA, designer or observer to your Canvas course site
• Canvas Checklist: Is your course site ready?
• Canvas instructor tour – brief videos on the most-used features
• Manage the Canvas dashboard
• Canvas user community – an online forum to ask questions and share ideas with other Canvas users

Build your Canvas site and add content

• Canvas templates - import a preformatted structure for your Canvas course
• Adjust which email address(es) receive Canvas notifications
• Manage content in Canvas, includes
  • Creating content: assignments, discussions, pages, files, and quizzes
  • Organizing content in modules, setting module requirements
  • Managing course settings
• Copy (import) content from a Canvas course
• Merged and cross-listed ("X" sites) courses in Canvas
• Groups in Canvas
• Quizzes and surveys in Canvas
• Moderate Quiz settings and dates

Accessibility tools for Canvas

• Ally for Canvas
• Accessibility Check tool in Canvas

Grades and assignments

• Managing the Canvas gradebook, including
  • Gradebook columns: create a column for in-class assignments/exams
  • Assignment groups: weighted grading or dropping lowest scores
  • Grading schemes: Adding letter grades to course totals
  • Other useful features: muting grades, gradebook history, excuse assignments
• Differentiated assignments for specific students
• Create a video upload assignment
• Peer reviews in Canvas
• Plagiarism prevention? Use Turnitin in Canvas

End-of-term grades and archiving Canvas courses

• Final Grades tool allows faculty to export final course grades from Canvas into a Banner-ready Excel format
• Access to past-term Canvas course sites

More resources

• Using media in Canvas? Peruse Kaltura tools and resources
• Using classroom response software in the classroom? Check out Classroom Response resources
• Studio sites in Canvas - request your own Canvas site for collaboration or experimentation
• Training and resources for Ecampus instructors
• Teaching Hybrid in Extension Toolbox - A set of Canvas learning modules for teaching hybrid Extension courses
• Full list of Canvas integrations and tools