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Accessibility Overview

Check out our collection of articles on accessibility best practices. These are designed to be low-effort, high-impact strategies to improve your courses' Ally scores while making your content more accessible for your students, regardless of accessibility needs and preferences. Getting Started * Image Descriptio…

Accessibility Tips: Descriptive Document Titles

Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip is all about descriptive document titles: Meaningful titles help students navigate documents with greater spe…

Accessibility Tips: Image Descriptions

Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip describes how to add a meaningful description to images in your Canvas course. Images without descriptions a…

Instructors: Add a Guest to your Course

Flipgrid can be an effective way to foster communication among your students using a multimedia approach. You can also facilitate guest speaker engagements within the Flipgrid environment, or allow students from other courses/programs to participate in discussions with your students. This article details your options…

Accessibility Tips: Document Headings

Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview The proper use of heading styles is an easy way to improve the accessibility of course content. Headings help readers …

Instructors: Course Settings Options

Canvas offers many different options for course settings and enabling optional course features. To navigate to your Canvas course settings: * Navigate to the course you would like to modify using either the Courses or  Dashboard option on the garnet global navigation menu on the left-hand side of the screen. * …

Accessibility Tips: Optimum Color Contrast

Need some simple fixes to improve accessibility? The Office of Digital Learning has a collection of tips for making course content more accessible. See the full collection: Accessibility Overview This tip focuses on color contrast. Making sure your documents follow guidelines for optimum contrast is helpful for a…

What settings and features are available at the course level?

At the course level you can update and see the different users and sections in your course, and you can modify the navigation of your course. You can also determine whether or not to use Canvas's new features in your course site by turning them on or off. See our Instructors: Course Settings Options article for mor…

Do I have the ability to shift events/due dates when I course copy?

Yes, you do have the ability to shift events/dates in a course copy. Further resources: * How do I adjust events and dates in a course import?

How do I create a new feature idea?

Canvas's developers like hearing from you! If you have an idea for functionality that Canvas does not currently offer, create a feature idea that the entire Canvas community can vote on. Both FSU users and users at other institutions can give your idea an "upvote." The ideas that garner enough "upvotes" catch Canvas …

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