Getting Started

• • Updating your Canvas Profile

    • Edit Instructor Profile 

  • Posting Announcements in Canvas

    • Announcements

    • Recording a Video using Canvas Studio

    • Embedding a Video using the Rich Content Editor

  • Taking Attendance in Canvas

    • Attendance Tool

    • Taking Attendance

    • Editing Attendance Grading Options

  • Setting Assignment Due Dates and Using the Canvas Calendar

    • Assignment Due Dates

    • Calendar

  • Setting Up Zoom Appointments and Meetings

    • Creating Zoom Appointments

    • Creating Zoom Meetings

On-Ground Classroom Technology

• Accessing MACU Classroom PCs

• Creating Zoom Meetings (for virtual attendees)

Grading and Feedback

• • SpeedGrader

  • Manual Gradebook Entry

  • Grading with Rubrics

Submitting Mid-term and Final Grades

• Treat Ungraded as Zeroes

• Exclude Assignments from Final Total

• Extra Credit

• Entering Grades into the Portal

Canvas provides a whole community of support, how-to guides, and training videos in the Canvas Community, so you may find it easier to go there directly. However, for convenience's sake, we have listed below in alphabetic order the basic tasks instructors perform most.

A

Announcements

• What are Announcements?

Assignments

• What are Assignments?

• How do I create an assignment?

• Changing the Status of an Assignment

• Setting Assignment Due Dates

• Grading assignments in SpeedGrader

Attendance

• Using the Attendance Tool (AKA "Roll Call")

• Changing Attendance Settings (e.g., remove from gradebook, change point value, etc.)

• Adding Badges to Attendance (for statuses other than Absent or Present)

C

Calendar

• What is the Calendar?

Course Card

• How to Customize Your Course Card in Canvas 

Copying Course Content

• How do I copy content from another Canvas course?

• Zeros in Gradebook After Copying a Course 

D

Discussions

• What are discussions?

• How do I create a discussion?

Due Dates

• Setting Assignment Due Dates

E

Excused Assignments

• Changing the Status of an Assignment

G

Grading

• How do I use the Gradebook?

• How do I use SpeedGrader?

• Zeros in Gradebook After Copying A Course 

L

LTI (Publisher Gradebook Integration)

• Cengage LMS Integration

• McGraw-Hill:

  • McGraw-Hill Connect

  • McGraw-Hill ALEKS 

• Pearson

  • Pearson MyLab and Mastering

  • Video: Adding links to assignments

  • Pearson Revel and eText

M

Modules

• What are Modules?

P

Pages

• What are Pages?

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

Profile Settings

• Set up Profile and User Settings

Publisher Gradebook Integration (LTI)

• Cengage LMS Integration

• McGraw Hill

  • ALEKS Course Setup 

• Pearson (How to add MyLab and Mastering assignment course tools, or eText links)

  • Video

Q

Quizzes

• What are Quizzes?

• How do I create a quiz?

• How do I give my student an extra quiz attempt?

R

Rich Content Editor

• Rich Content Editor

Rubrics

• What are Rubrics?

• How do I add a rubric to an assignment?

• How do I manage rubrics in a course?

S

Studio

• What is Canvas Studio?

• All things Studio!

Z

Zoom

• • • Creating Zoom Appointments

    • Creating Zoom Meetings

Microsoft Office 365 Download and Installation

Google Drive & Google Apps

• Google Docs

• Google Sheets

• Google Slides

Accessibility

• • Laws, Policies, and Guidelines

  • UDL +1 Professional Development Series

  • Accessibility Checkers:

    1. WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool) - Evaluate web content for accessibility issues directly within your browser

    2. Microsoft Office Accessibility Checker

    3. Canvas Accessibility Checker

Online Instructor Presence

• • Effective Online Discussions