Canvas: Instructors

All Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) help and resource articles for instructors.

This article provides a comprehensive guide to getting started with Canvas, including requesting a test course, navigation, content migration, and support resources.

The Training Services Portal can be accessed from within Canvas and is home to a diverse range of training resources to assist instructors.

Instructors can manually add and remove teaching assistants (TAs), co-instructors, and other users for Canvas courses.

Instructors can use Assignment Groups to organize the assignments in their course. When Assignment Groups are set up, you can weight the final course grade by assignment groups and filter by assignment groups in the Gradebook.

Canvas allows instructors to display their course content "inline", which enables students to view, minimize, or download content without leaving the Canvas page or being pushed to download external files. Documents, images, and media files can all be added inline to Canvas courses.

Instructors can add PID to their Gradebook in Canvas. This may help submit grades at the end of the year in the Faculty and Advising Center.

Instructors can apply custom OHIO course templates to their Canvas courses. Utilizing templates establishes a consistent course structure experience for students.

Learn how to use the attendance tool in Canvas. This article includes instructions for enabling the attendance tool, customizing settings, and recording attendance.

This article explains how to manage the Canvas Gradebook, including arranging columns, setting grading policies, and creating point- or weight-based systems. It covers different views like Traditional and Gradebook History and offers guidance on updating grading schemes and adding assignment columns.

Collaborations allow multiple users to work together on the same document at the same time. You can collaborate in Canvas using Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files.

Canvas offers two ways to communicate with your students: Messaging and Announcements.

Learn how to configure student access to your course content through Publication status, Term Dates, and Course Participation Settings.

Instructors can use the Course Import tool in Canvas to transfer content between courses, and additional steps are required to ensure third-party integrations function properly.

Turnitin is a plagiarism detection tool. Instructors can create Turnitin assignments within Canvas.

This article provides guidance to instructors for creating and administering Monitored Exams in Top Hat that can be accessed via Canvas. This ensures the integrity of the exam process while providing a seamless experience for students.

This article provides an overview of the peer review feature available in Canvas, covering how to create an assignment with a peer review element, as well as how to manage the peer reviews.

Canvas Commons is a digital library that allows Ohio University instructors to find, share, and import instructional materials to or from your Canvas courses. Within Commons, it is possible to create groups for sharing purposes. This article describes how to request the creation of, renaming of, or membership modification to a Canvas Commons Group.

In Canvas, quiz feedback can be enabled or disabled manually by instructors. Unlike Blackboard, there is no option to enable or disable feedback based on a specific date or specific conditions.

This article provides instructions on how to embed Panopto videos to your Canvas course.

Self-enrollment allows students to enroll themselves in your manually created course through a secret URL or code. Learn how to enable this for your Canvas course.

Instructors can export grades from the Canvas Gradebook as a CSV file to enhance grade data, grade offline, archive a version of the gradebook, or prepare final grades for import to the Faculty and Advising Center. After downloading, the file can be edited using Microsoft Excel and uploaded back into Canvas. Instructors are cautioned to review changes carefully before finalizing the import process to avoid losing student grades.

This article explains how to create assignments and grade assignments using Folio, Canvas's free portfolio tool for students.

This article outlines several ways instructors can add extra credit opportunities in Canvas, which lacks a specific feature for extra credit. Methods include creating new zero-point assignments, adding extra points to existing assignments or quizzes, using rubrics, and creating extra credit assignment groups. These options allow instructors flexibility in enhancing student learning and engagement.

This article describes how to move all content in a Blackboard course or organization to Canvas via an export file.

In Canvas, any exam, test, or assessment is called a “quiz”. This article explains how to migrate your Blackboard content to Canvas Classic Quizzes and how to upgrade your existing Canvas Quizzes to New Quizzes.

Instructors can merge multiple courses into one Canvas course.

There are several options available to instructors for adding Blackboard content to Canvas.

Learn how to customize your notifications from Canvas. You can add ways to receive notifications (such as additional email addresses or push notifications via the Canvas Teacher app), customize your notifications, and share your contact information with your students.

Read this article to determine which tool(s) would be best suited for your organization(s) as we transition to Canvas.

Students and instructors can organize their personal Canvas Dashboard and change display settings on individual course cards.

This article describes how instructors can make accommodations for students by offering extended time, multiple attempts, or extended due dates for assignments and quizzes.

Manually created courses are spaces where instructors can build content intended to be replicated across multiple courses in the future, explore Canvas features and test course content, or create Blackboard-like organizations.

Publishers and other educational technology providers will often offer integrations with Canvas. To request an integration, you must submit both the Technology Review Form and the Canvas Integration Request.

Instructors can submit a ticket to request access to the Growing with Canvas instructor course.

Canvas allows instructors to reset a course, deleting all content and student data, which is useful for removing templates or unwanted content but is irreversible. This article explains how to reset a course, reasons and risks for doing so, and possible alternatives.

This article outlines the different roles and associated permissions available to OHIO students and employees in Canvas courses.

Share entire courses, assignments, modules, quizzes, pages, and discussions with other Ohio University faculty in Canvas Commons.

This article outlines the steps to make Panopto videos located in Blackboard available in Canvas.

Students and instructors can sync their Canvas calendar with their Outlook (Catmail) calendar. This allows Canvas events and assignments to appear in their Outlook calendar.

If you cannot access your course(s) in Canvas, there may be several factors at play. This article will explain why your course might not be displaying as expected and how to troubleshoot.

This article provides troubleshooting guidance for accessing and using Canvas and its third-party integrations, helping users identify common issues and determine if they're related to known bugs or system requirements.

Canvas offers several built-in analytics, statistics, and reporting tools that allow instructors to access data about their courses. This article explains how to use these analytics.

To access classes and complete coursework using the core features of Canvas, your system must meet these minimums

This article describes how to download Blackboard Original tests, rubrics, surveys, and pools and upload them to Canvas.

This article provides instructions for adding images, documents, and videos to Canvas.

Instructors can weight final grades in Canvas based on assignment groups. Within each assignment group, a percentage is calculated by dividing the total points a student has earned by the total points possible for all assignments in that group.

Canvas allows instructors to control course content flow using Requirements and Prerequisites, similar to Adaptive or Conditional Release in Blackboard. These features help with progress tracking, mastery-based learning, and certificate completion by setting specific actions students must complete and modules they must finish before accessing new content.

Instructors can download SCORM content from Blackboard and upload SCORM to Canvas.

This article explains how to use SpeedGrader to easily evaluate individual and group assignments.

This article details how to use SpeedGrader to grade assignments submitted to Canvas via Turnitin.

This article provides installation instructions, support instructions, and updates on tools that have integrations with Canvas (publisher content and third-party integrations).

Import courses, modules, assignments, quizzes, discussions, pages, or files from Commons into your Canvas course.

This article provides guidance on managing inactive student enrollments in Canvas. It explains how students are marked as inactive when they drop or withdraw from a course and details steps for viewing inactive students in the gradebook and checking their last login dates.

In Canvas, concluded student enrollments cause some student information to be hidden. Learn how to view student information, such as grades, after grades are due for the semester.