Instructor Guides
Instructor Guides
Skill Level: Basic, Intermediate, & Advanced
Priority Level: Mandatory, Suggested, & Optional
Optimal Timing: Beginning-, Middle , End of Term, & Full Term
Most of the processes involved in keeping your Canvas course running smoothly are simple, but they are often required only once per term, making them easy to forget. This collection of help guides, organized by usage categories, is designed to give you the info you need, when you need it! We value your feedback on any additional information you would like to see here.
Faculty Canvas Help Documentation
Canvas Commons @ LBCC
Accessing the LBCC Canvas Commons
Canvas Training Videos from January 3 Instructure Event
How to Validate Links in Your Canvas Course
How do I set a Front Page in My Canvas Course?
How to Use the Google Drive Plugin in Canvas
Group Work & Collaboration in Canvas
How do I add requirements to a Canvas course module?
How do I import a Canvas course export package?
Experiencing your Canvas Course as a Student
Importing Content Between Canvas Courses
Organizing your Canvas Dashboard
How do I view all my Canvas courses?
How do I change my Canvas course Home Page?
Canvas Roll Call Attendance Tool
How do I edit the Roll Call Attendance assignment?
VIDEO: Using the Redirect Tool
VIDEO: Outcomes Setup & Usage in Canvas
Cengage
VIDEO: Canvas LTI Advantage/MindTap: Create a Course
VIDEO: MindTap LMS Integration with Canvas: Deep Linking Activities
Perusall
VIDEO: Adding Perusall to Your Canvas Course
How do I preview a quiz in New Quizzes?
How can I give my students extra time in a Canvas Quiz?
VIDEO: Extending due dates for an individual student
VIDEO: Granting time extensions in New Quizzes (easy accommodations)
How can I give my students extra attempts in a Canvas Quiz?
Enable Canvas Quiz Logs to be able to see a timeline of how your students progressed through your exam. The log will show how long a student spent on a question, whether they changed their answer, and whether they navigated away from the Canvas Quiz page.
Interpreting the "Stopped Viewing the Quiz Page" Event in Canvas
Moodle Assignments with TurnItIn enabled (Moodle Assignment or TurnItIn Assignment 2) may not fully transfer due to differences in how Moodle and Canvas handle these integrations. Currently, Canvas does not natively support direct imports of Moodle-specific TurnItIn configurations. Assignments will need to be reconfigured manually after import.
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS Course Conversion Guide - Moodle to Canvas
Introducing a terrific Chrome browser extension that makes it very easy to include a link to your Zoom room in your Google Calendar events. No more copying & pasting between your Zoom "Meetings" page and your Google Calendar event, as the selection is available directly in Google Calendar.
Have you ever thought it would be nice to include an "Add to Google Calendar" link in the body of an email message you are sending out to announce an event? Here is one way to make it easy for your email recipients to add a copy of YOUR event to THEIR Google Calendar. This works for one-time events, as well as recurring events!
Have you ever spent more time scheduling a meeting among multiple people than the meeting itself? It's surprisingly simple and easy to avoid that, and schedule a meeting during an available time slot among all of your guests.