"How Do I?"

Guides & Tutorials

Below is a compilation of video tutorials, walkthrough guides, and resources for navigating and managing the various components in your Canvas courses.

Course Setup

How do I Set a Homepage for My Course?
How do I Adjust Navigation Pane Tabs in My Course?
How do I Manage Notification Settings for Canvas?

Course Management

How do I Organize Course Modules?
How do I Set Module Prerequisites and Requirements?
How do I Add Content to a Module?
How do I Import Content from Another Course?
How do I Copy Pages Between Courses?
How do I Moderate a Quiz?
How do I Manually Override a Module Requirement?
How do I Add/Remove Prerequisites?
How do I Hyperlink an Image on a Page?

Course Gradebook

How do I use the Gradebook?
How do I use the Total Column?
How do I Enable Late Work Settings?
How do I Excuse an Assignment?
How do I export grades in the Gradebook?
How do I Import grades into the Gradebook?
How do I set missing status and placeholder grade for non-online submission assignment types?

Course Assignments

How do I Edit Assignment Groups?
How do I Excuse an Assignment?
How do I Bulk Edit Assignments?
How do I Edit Details in an Assignment?
What are Assignment Availability Dates and Due Dates?
How do I Set Availability Dates?

Course Progress Monitoring

Course Progress Monitoring Cheat Sheet
How do I View Analytics for an Individual Student?
How do I Message Students Based on Specific Criteria from New Analytics?
How do I Use Modules to View Student Progress?

Course Communication

How do I message students who have an overall low course grade?
How do I Pull a Student Contact Report in PowerTeacher?
How do I log Contact Entries in PowerSchool?

Canvas Guides and Tutorial Links

Canvas Video Collection Link

Teacher Troubleshooting Guide

Canvas Resource Documents

Canvas Instructor Guide

Canvas Student Guide

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