Will I be able to view my course site from the student perspective?
Yes, the Student View tool allows you to view your course as your students see it. However, please note that Student View is not the same as the actual Student role and will only give you a general idea of how your students can interact with your course content. You can check if features like a Module or item …
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…
Can I edit the course calendar?
Yes, you can add events to the course Calendar and make changes to existing events by dragging and dropping calendar items. Any assignment due date changes made in your Calendar are automatically updated everywhere else in the course site. You can view calendar items by day, week, month, or agenda list. You can also …
Can I permit or deny guests/observers in my course site?
You cannot, as the instructor, edit guest/observer role access on a course level. In Canvas this role access can only be edited on the account/system administrator level. Further resources: * What is the Observer role? * Observer Visibility and Participation
How do I add an existing question bank to my quiz?
While you are on the Questions tab of any quiz, select Find Questions , and you can then select which existing question banks you want to add to your quiz. Note: See " How do I make Question Banks? " for more information on setting up question banks initially. Further resources * Classic Quizzes How do …
How to View and Download your Class Roster
There is no simple way to view and download your class roaster in Canvas. However, you can View and Download Class Rosters or Print Class Rosters with or without Students' Photos within the myFSU system. If you experience any difficulty with accessing these rosters, please call the ITS department at (850) 644-…
FAMU-FSU Engineering Instructors: How to find courses you are teaching in Canvas
Because of the way that the FAMU and FSU Canvas systems work together, you will likely see several empty course templates that will not be used. In order to avoid confusion, we recommend that you "favorite" the real course sites that you will be using to teach so that only those courses display on your Dashboard. Fi…
Using the Canvas Community website
The Canvas Community website provides information on all aspects of Canvas. Though we maintain our own FSU Canvas Support Center website and are continually adding content that we think our FSU users will find helpful, you may wish to use the Canvas Community as well. The content you'll find in there includes blog …
How do I use/navigate Assignments in Canvas?
Canvas Assignments include Quizzes (assessments and surveys), graded Discussions, and online submissions (paper submissions). The Assignments page shows your students all of the Assignments that will be expected of them in the course and how many points each one is worth. You can assign a particular Assignment to the…
FSU Libraries: Course Reserves
FSU Libraries offer a course reserve service for supplemental course materials. These materials may include books, videos, physical objects, or online resources such as e-books, links to articles, or streaming videos. You can place supplemental online course materials on electronic reserve through the FSU Libraries w…
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