How do I communicate with my students in Canvas?
Canvas gives you many options for communicating with your students - through Announcements, Inbox (internal Canvas messaging tool similar to email), and chat (communication in real time). Note: we do not recommend using chat because its messages are not private. Learn more about general best practices in Canva…
Creating an Organization using a Canvas Course Site
Cases where a Canvas course site is a good fit * If your organization site is an academic organization that provides information, announcements, and/or surveys to participants and/or enrolls users each term using automatic enrollments. * If your organization site is a course of some sort, i.e. student orientation,…
How to add participants to Canvas organizations
You may add participants to your organization manually , send participants a secret URL join code , or contact ODL to set up batch enrollments for very large groups. Option 1: Add participants manually * Click People on the navigation menu. * Click the + People button to add people. * Add users by email …
Instructors: How to access your Turnitin.com account for the first time
Note: You must have created a Turnitin assignment in Canvas in order to trigger the creation of your account on Turnitin.com. If you have not created a Turnitin assignment in either a course or development site in Canvas, then the steps in this article will not work. * Find the email address associated with your…
Canvas Best Practices
Course Setup: Getting started building your new Canvas course site * Getting Started building your new Canvas course site Course Setup Basics * Use a development site (or "dev site") to build out your course . This minimizes potentially major issues during course-building and ensures that your students cannot a…
How to set up your course Grading Scheme
It is important that you enable and accurately implement a Grading Scheme in your Canvas course that matches the information you provide in your course syllabus. This is crucial because if your Canvas course grading scheme is not accurate, then your students will see a different final grade calculation in Canvas than…
What is the difference between text submissions and file upload submissions
You can restrict the file type for assignment submissions. For example, if you would like your students to only upload Word documents for grading and not any other file type, such as a PDF or a PowerPoint (PPT), you can specify the file extensions for Microsoft Word documents, such as doc and docx, in the Restri…
How user enrollments and course access work in Canvas
Canvas matches its course enrollments with myFSU Student Central Sunday through Friday at: 5:00am, 7:00am, 9:00am, 11:00am, 1:00pm, 3:00pm, 5:00pm, 7:00pm, and 9:00pm. If a course schedule change occurs an hour before any of these "enrollment cycles", it may take an additional enrollment cycle for the change to take…
Getting Started: Instructor Edition
What to keep in mind: * Development available! All instructors and graduate students preparing to teach courses can use development sites in Canvas. These development sites are intended for the purpose of becoming familiar with how Canvas functions and to create course site templates for the classes you teach. If …
Canvas Gradebook Best Practices
To save time and headaches at the end of the semester, we recommend following the steps below to ensure that your gradebook is set up correctly from the start. This will make it easier to use during the semester and ensure that your final grades are calculated accurately. Start of Semester: Gradebook Setup * Set…
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