Each course includes various features where you can share course content, hold discussions, assign coursework, grade student submissions, and much more. View the articles below for some of the basics of Canvas courses.

• How do I create an assignment?

• How do I assign an assignment to everyone, individual students, or sections?

• How do I use the Course Navigation Menu as an instructor?

• How do I use the Syllabus as an instructor?

• How do I create a discussion as an instructor?

• How do I use Files?

• How do I use the Gradebook?

• How do I add a module?

• How do I create a new page in a course?

• How do I add users to a course?

• How do I edit user roles in a course?

• How do I create a quiz with individual questions? (Classic Quizzes)

• How do I create a quiz using New Quizzes?

• How do I add and modify text in the Rich Content Editor?

• How do I get to SpeedGrader from an assignment, quiz, or graded discussion?

• How do I use SpeedGrader?

Learn more about Canvas features in the Canvas Basics Guide.

• How do I use the Modules Index Page?

• How do I add a module?

• How do I publish or unpublish a module as an instructor?

• How do I duplicate a module?

• How do I copy a module to another course?

• How do I send a module to another instructor?

• How do I copy a module item to another course?

• How do I send a module item to another instructor?

• How do I add prerequisites to a module?

• How do I add requirements to a module?

• How do I assign a module to individual sections, differentiation tags, or students?

• How do I assign a module content item from the Module Index page?

• How do I edit or delete a module?

• How do I lock a module?

• How do I move or reorder a module?

• How do I add course content as module items?

• How do I add a quiz as a module item?

• How do I add a text header as a module item?

• How do I add an external tool as a module item?

• How do I add an external URL as a module item?

• How do I duplicate a module item?

• How do I edit module items?

• How do I remove module items?

• How do I move or reorder a module item?

• How do I use modules to view the progress of students in a course?

• How do I view course content offline as an HTML file as an instructor?

• How do I use Mastery Paths in course modules?

• How do I allow a page to be a Mastery Path module item?

• How do I add conditional content to a Mastery Path source item?

• How do I assign a conditional assignment for students to complete in Mastery Paths?

• How do I view the Mastery Paths range breakdown results for an assignment?

• How do I use the Quizzes Index Page?

• How do I publish or unpublish a quiz as an instructor?

• What quiz types can I create in a course?

• What options can I set in a quiz?

• How do I import quizzes from QTI packages?

• How do I create a quiz with individual questions?

• How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions?

• How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank?

• How do I create a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank?

• How do I create a Multiple Choice quiz question?

• How do I create a True/False quiz question?

• How do I create a Fill-in-the-Blank quiz question?

• How do I create a Fill-in-Multiple-Blanks quiz question?

• How do I create a Multiple Answers quiz question?

• How do I create a Multiple Dropdown quiz question?

• How do I create Likert scale quiz questions?

• How do I create a Matching quiz question?

• How do I create a Numerical Answer quiz question?

• How do I create a Formula quiz question with a single variable?

• How do I create a Simple Formula quiz question?

• How do I create an Essay quiz question?

• How do I create a File Upload quiz question?

• How do I create a Text (no question) quiz question?

• How do I link course content to a quiz question?

• How do I create a question bank in a course?

• How do I bookmark or unbookmark a question bank in a course?

• How do I delete a question bank in a course?

• How do I move multiple questions from one question bank to another?

• How do I move/copy a question from one question bank to another?

• How do I reorder questions or question groups in a quiz?

• How do I import a question bank from one Canvas course to another?

• How can I create a quiz where students only see one question at a time?

• How do I make a quiz available before or after the due date?

• How do I assign a quiz to everyone, individual students, differentiation tags, or sections?

• How do I delete a quiz?

• How do I export quiz content from a course?

• How do I copy a quiz to another course?

• How do I send a quiz to another instructor?

• Once I publish a quiz, how do I make additional changes?

• Once I publish a quiz, how do I use the Moderate Quiz page?

• Once I publish a quiz, what kinds of quiz statistics are available?

• Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts?

• Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time?

• How do I manually submit outstanding student quiz submissions?

• How do I view student results in a quiz?

• How do I view a quiz log for a student?

• What options can I use to regrade a quiz in a course?

• How do I regrade a Multiple Choice quiz question?

• How do I regrade a True/False quiz question?

• How do I regrade a Multiple Answers quiz question?

• How do I create a survey in my course?

• How do I view survey results in a course?

• How do I view practice quiz results in a course?

• How do I set up a quiz to be sent to my institution's student information system (SIS)?

• How do I add a rubric in a course?

• How do I align an outcome with a rubric in a course?

• How do I add a rubric to an assignment?

• How do I add a rubric to a graded discussion?

• How do I add a rubric to a quiz?