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Canvas Help Guides
Canvas Help Guides
Canvas is our district Learning Management System. It is a robust system that allows you to build a complete online learning classroom. It allows you to have discussions, post a myriad of resources, interact with students, and even have assignments and quizzes.
Parent Tech Help on Katy ISD Website (includes Canvas link)
Want to enroll in our Canvas e-course? Click here to enroll in Strive. In this course you will learn how to implement Canvas as your learning management system to create engaging, interactive courses for your elementary students. You must enroll in Strive AND in the Canvas course (link in the Strive description).
Canvas Login for Students
Canvas Login for Students
Click here for instructions on how students can sign-in to Canvas. These instructions are also available in Spanish.
Publish Canvas Courses
Publish Canvas Courses
You MUST PUBLISH your OWN course with students by clicking the Publish button on the home screen. If “Publish” is gray and NOT green, then it is NOT published! If you don’t publish this course, students won’t see it.
In the image on the right, the course is NOT published. Click the gray Publish button to publish your course. When it turns green, it is published.
Publish Pages, Assignments, & Modules
Publish Pages, Assignments, & Modules
You can control what students are able to access by publishing and unpublishing pages, assignments, and modules.
Anything you want students to see must be PUBLISHED. Modules MUST be PUBLISHED for students to see anything within the module. See image on the right.
Editing Pages & Assignments
Editing Pages & Assignments
All of the content in your Canvas courses come from a master "Blueprint" course. As the district curriculum and technology specialists update the Blueprint, it will automatically put the new and updated material in your Canvas courses.
If you edit something that came from the Blueprint in your courses (let’s say you change the wording of a discussion or change a picture on a page), then you break the link for that item from the Blueprint to your course. That means that any further changes made to that item in the Blueprint won’t sync to that item in your course. Everything else in your course will still sync. Just that particular item won’t sync anymore.
Sometimes you may need to edit pages and assignments, which is ok. However, if you edit an incomplete page (maybe it's not meant to be used for a few weeks), then when it finally is completed, you won't get those updates.
Do NOT edit the homepage! The homepage is updated each week for the days of the week links, and you want to make sure you are getting those updates.
Do NOT edit page names! Editing the name/title of a page changes its URL. That means if it was linked to from a different page, that link would no longer work.
Canvas Tutorials
Canvas Tutorials
Canvas Settings
Canvas Dashboard
Canvas Courses
Assignments
Add/edit assignment details (including due dates)
Media (Video and Images)
Gradebook & Speedgrader
Canvas Inbox & Messaging
For additional tutorial videos, visit the Canvas section of the Elementary Instructional Technology website.
Snap & Read
Snap & Read
If you have students who need webpages read aloud to them, they can use Snap & Read.
Snap & Read is a Google Chrome extension that is already installed for students using Chromebooks.
FAQ
FAQ
My students can't see my course on their dashboard.
My students can't see my course on their dashboard.
Your course is not published. Click here to learn how to publish your student course.
My students can't see the assignment/page/quiz/discussion I posted.
My students can't see the assignment/page/quiz/discussion I posted.
Your assignment/page is not published. Click here to learn how to publish.
My assignment is published, but my students still can't see it.
My assignment is published, but my students still can't see it.
Make sure you publish the module that the assignment is in. Click here to learn how.
How do I know when my students access Canvas (participation).
How do I know when my students access Canvas (participation).
This video explain how to access student participation reports in Canvas.
I copy and pasted images into my Canvas page, but they aren't showing up.
I copy and pasted images into my Canvas page, but they aren't showing up.
Canvas does not support images to be copy and pasted into pages, quizzes, discussions, or assignments. To learn how to upload images to Canvas, click here.
How do I export Canvas grades to TAC?
How do I export Canvas grades to TAC?
Click here to learn how.
How can I change my Canvas Gradebook View?
How can I change my Canvas Gradebook View?
Click here to learn more.
Canvas Troubleshooting
Canvas Troubleshooting
Restart the computer
If on a Mac (Apple Computer): Update Mac OS (Mac Operating System)
Use the Chrome Browser (install the Chrome Browser if you don’t have it)
Update the Chrome browser (in Chrome settings)
Clear the cache for Chrome browser (attached) - https://help.katyisd.org/help/google-chrome---clearing-the-cachebrowser-history
If using Safari on a Mac, be sure Safari version is up to date or install and use the Chrome browser
Canvas Supported Web Browsers:
Desktop Browsers
· Chrome 79 and 80
· Firefox 73 and 74
· Edge 79 and 80
· Respondus Lockdown Browser
· Safari 12 and 13
Mobile Browsers
· Latest version of Safari (iOS) and Chrome (Android)—view
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