Canvas
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Canvas course shells are made available to faculty according to the following schedule:
- Summer Courses: March 1
- Fall Courses: May 1
- Spring Courses: Nov. 1
If you are just starting with Canvas, you might want to take a look at the full . Or, if you just need to find a quick answer, these are the most commonly asked questions we see.
Common Canvas Course Setup Tasks
- First Steps in Canvas
- Communicate with your Students
- Create Course Materials
- Using Microsoft Office Features
- Grading
- Quizzes
- Working with Publisher Tools
- Make Your Course Available To Students
First Steps in Canvas
- Get the Apps , , , , ,
- Login to Canvas at using your UNA username and Password
- Visit the (CIDI Labs allows you to use themed templates in your course.)
- Setup your and
Communicate with your Students
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- Your course must be published to send messages to your class.
- The Send an individual message to each recipient checkbox prevents users from seeing who else is being messages
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Create Course Materials
- Upload your Syllabus into Simple Syllabus
- Use Canvas Studio to create videos (
- Use such as , and .
- . Creating an Assignment creates a column. Be sure to select a Submission Type of “No Submission” if you do not expect students to submit work in Canvas.
- Use Turnitin to detect plagiarism in student submissions.
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Using Microsoft Office Features
- Share OneDrive files in Modules: Click on the Modules link, select the + icon under the desired Module, and choose External Tool. Click on the link for Office 365, choose the file, and click Attach File.
Grading
- Use and
- Use to grade and comment on Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes.
- Specify if grades are automatically visible to students by
- Use the and features
- Using
- Set automatic grade policies for or
- At the end of the semester, sync your Canvas Grades with Banner.
- Check Banner to make sure all grades have synchronized.
Quizzes
- Use Respondus Campus-Wide Test Generation software to create quizzes
- Require the Respondus Lockdown Browser or Respondus Monitor (automated proctoring) for your quizzes. (Don’t forget to add a test policy and instructions for students)
- Check out the
- When copying a course or making changes to quizzes that use Lockdown Browser or Monitor, you must visit the Lockdown Browser Dashboard in your course to automatically update the Lockdown Browser settings.
- Once your students have taken quizzes,
Working with Publisher Tools
Make Your Course Available To Students
- Don’t forget to publish your and other Materials
- . Even if published, courses open and close for students based on term dates, unless you change those dates.
- (Course must be published in order for students to receive messages). Choose “Send an individual message to each recipient” to Blind Carbon Copy