Instructors can add a Rubrics item to a course’s navigation. The Rubrics navigation item is only visible to instructors and provides a shortcut so you can more easily access and manage rubrics. Manage Course Settings
Student analytics show you how well a particular student is doing in your course. You can also view student analytics after your course has concluded. Lots of good information. Go to Settings, Feature Options, to activate new course and user analytics. https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10297-how-do-i-view-analytics-for-a-student-in-a-course
If you are not cross-listing your multiple sections you can easily copy content from one class to another, go to Settings, Import Content, Select Copy a Canvas Course, Search for Course, select content to be imported. You can also Copy to specific items within a course to another course.
Getting Started – Spring 2021
The Dashboard, Courses menu, and All Courses page displays sections for published and unpublished courses. The main Dashboard will only list courses for the current term. So when students can’t access just look at your Dashboard! Dashboard Update Video
Canvas allows you to choose what students see when they enter your course by letting you select the “Homepage”. A tip from a colleague suggests changing it weekly to respond to that weeks topic. Need assistance on how this is done, contact OET or click here for instructions. A sample home page may look something … Read more
Too many courses on your dashboard, clean it up by clicking the Courses link in the purple menu, scroll down until you see All Courses and then click the star for the courses you want to see on your dashboard, quick and easy!
Not happy with the way your homepage looks? Or like it so much you want to use it in another course? Go to edit all pages click on the snowman dots to the right and either duplicate or copy to. This way if you are making changes the original stays spotless.
Any recording created in Studio and many that you may upload can have captions created after the recording has processed. Check out our own Dr. Holt’s demonstration on using this neat feature.
The first item in a module should be a module overview (created as a Canvas “page”) which lists module dates as well as all learning objectives, assignments, and expectations. Pages are containers of content that are part of a course. Pages can include text, video, images, and links to files and other course or group … Read more
Did you know that you can click on the snowman dots to the right of the page and select Page History. This allows you to go back to a previous version of that page. (Good to know when you totally mess up)
There is the global purple menu on the left and each class has its own menu next to it. Go to Settings, Navigation and either click on the snowman dots to disable an time or drag it to the hide from students sections. With Files enabled there might be some exam questions etc. you don’t … Read more
Canvas Daily Tips throughout the month of July and rebooting now for Spring Semester! Today’s Tip – Can’t find UNDO in the Canvas screen, CTRl + Z will take care of any items that need to be UNDONE!