Digital Learning Resources
Canvas
What's the Latest in Canvas
If you have additional questions about these new Canvas features, please connect with one of our experts in Live Support.
- Canvas Studio
- Canvas Portfolio - Instructor Guide
- Differentiation Tags (Manage Content Visibility and Due Dates by Custom Sets of Students)
- Discussion Checkpoints (Multiple Due Dates)
- Enhanced Assignments (Change for Students)
- Enhanced Rubrics
ENROLL IN CANVAS BASICS (FULLY ONLINE WORKSHOP)
Looking for a single, go-to resource for everything you need to know about Canvas? Look no further. This fully online, self-paced workshop is designed to give you a deep understanding and complete mastery of Canvas features, enhanced with practical best practices. Whether you’re seeking a comprehensive overview or a quick reference for a specific tool, this workshop has you covered.
REQUEST DEPARTMENTAL WORKSHOP ON CANVAS
Our team facilitates customized Canvas workshops for your college, department, or program. In addition to the Academic Continuity resources from Faculty Success, our team can provide Canvas training to prepare faculty to keep teaching during a disruption.
To get started, fill out the below survey to let us know the workshop topic, audience, and preferred time.
Canvas Studio
Canvas Studio is a fully integrated video platform for instructors (and students), offering powerful features to enrich your teaching and learning, such as auto-captioning, in-video quizzes, and detailed analytics on viewer engagement.
- What is Canvas Studio? (Monday Minute)
- Canvas Studio Basics
- Recording Video using Studio Capture
- How to View Canvas Studio Student Analytics (Viewing Activity)
- How to Create a Canvas Studio Video Quiz
- Canvas Studio Student Guide
Canvas Menu, Modules, and Pages
The structure of your Canvas course is critical. The following will provide you with an overview of how to customize organizational elements of your course and how to use the Canvas syllabus tool.
- Course Navigation Menu
- Using the Redirect Tool
- Modules Overview
- Content Pages
- Cleaning Up the Canvas Menu (Monday Minute)
CANVAS GRADING & ASSIGNMENTS
Instructors spend a lot of time grading and the following represent some of the most important items related to the Canvas gradebook.
- Gradebook Overview
- Assignments Overview
- SpeedGrader
- Extra Credit
- Peer Review
- Canvas Studio: Create a Video-Based Quiz
- Canvas Portfolio - Instructor Guide
- Canvas Portfolio - Student Guide
- Discussion Checkpoints (Multiple Due Dates)
- Adding Extra Quiz Time
- New Quizzes: Restrict Student Result View
- Adjusting Due Dates for Canvas Quizzes and Assignments
- Bulk Upload Availability & Due Dates
- Update a Quiz While Students are Taking it
- View a Specific Student's Grade Page
- Canvas Quiz Log (Monday Minute)
- Randomize Students in SpeedGrader (Monday Minute)
- Grading by Question in SpeedGrader (Monday Minute)
- Mute Grades in Canvas (Monday Minute)
- Using the Gradebook Search (Monday Minute)
CANVAS COURSE ADMINISTRATION
The following provides key areas of course administration including adding individuals to your course, importing/copying, and automation tools such as the link validator and accessibility checker that will save you alot of time.
- How to Add People to Your Course
- Copy to Another Course by Importing
- Export a Course
- Import from an Export Course Package
- Download Gradebook & Roster
- Canvas Quiz Copy in Same Course
- Link Validator
- Crosslisting - Merging Courses
- Create a "Sandbox" Course
- Using the Canvas Course Scheduler (Monday Minute)
- Create Calendar Events in Canvas (Monday Minute)
- Canvas Accessibility Checker (Monday Minute)
- Clean Up the Clutter on your Canvas Dashboard (Monday Minute)
CANVAS COURSE COMMUNICATION & FEEDBACK
Communicating with your students is critically important and Canvas offers a number of features to optimize connectivity with your students and ensure that they receive your feedback.
- Post Announcements
- Canvas Studio Student Analytics
- Message Students Who - Gradebook
- Message Students Who - Analytics
- Canvas Notifications & Your Students (Monday Minute)
- Help Students Find SpeedGrader Feedback (Monday Minute)
CANVAS COMMONS
Canvas Commons provides shared content and templates to use within your Canvas Course.
INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH STUDENTS
Sometimes you want to make sure that students understand how to find vital information in your course. Following are guides for which we receive frequent questions.
View Digital Learning Video Tutorial Library
Digital Learning also offers a library of on-demand video tutorials and "Monday Minutes," which include Canvas-focused videos.