Canvas Faculty Guide
Canvas, by Instructure, is UHD’s new Learning Management System. We have gathered some resources below for instructors to get familiar with Canvas. If you ever have a question, please feel free to reach out to Canvas Support.
How to Access Canvas
| Global Navigation | Course Basics | Course Activities | Third Party Tools |
|---|---|---|---|
Accessibility
- How to view your Course Accessibility Report in Canvas
- How do I give my students extra time in Classic Quizzes?
- How do I give my students extra attempts in Classic Quizzes?
- How do I give my students extra time in New Quizzes?
- How do I give my students extra attempts in New Quizzes?
- How do I use the Accessibility Checker in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I enable the high contrast user interface as an instructor?
- Canvas Course Accessibility Checklist
- Creating Accessible PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC
New Analytics
- How do I view analytics for an individual student in New Analytics?
- How do I view average course grade analytics in an interactive chart graph in New Analytics?
- How do I view average course grade analytics in a data table in New Analytics?
- How do I compare the course average chart graph with an assignment, section, or student filter in New Analytics?
- How do I compare the course average data table with an assignment, section, or student filter in New Analytics?
- How do I send a message to all students based on specific course criteria in New Analytics?
- How do I send a message to an individual student in New Analytics?
- How do I view weekly online activity analytics in an interactive chart graph in New Analytics?
- How do I view weekly online activity analytics in a data table in New Analytics?
- How do I compare the weekly online activity chart graph with a section or student filter in New Analytics?
- How do I compare the weekly online activity data table with a section or student filter in New Analytics?
- How do I send a message to all students based on specific course participation criteria in New Analytics?
- How do I send a message to an individual student based on specific course participation criteria in New Analytics?
- How do I view and download reports in New Analytics?
Announcements
- How do I use the Announcements Index Page?
- How do I add an announcement in a course?
- How do I show recent announcements in the Course Home Page?
- How do I attach a file to an announcement in a course?
- How do I edit an announcement in a course?
- How do I delete an announcement in a course?
- How do I delay posting an announcement until a specific date in a course?
- How do I copy an announcement to another course?
Assignments
- How do I use the Assignments Index Page?
- How do I create an assignment?
- How do I create an online assignment?
- How do I publish or unpublish an assignment as an instructor?
- What is the difference between assignment due dates and availability dates?
- How do I add or edit details in an assignment?
- How do I add or edit points for an assignment?
- How do I limit submission attempts for an assignment?
- How do I exclude an assignment from the course's final grades?
- How do I give extra credit in a course?
- How do I move or reorder an assignment?
- How do I delete an assignment?
- How do I assign an assignment to an individual student?
- Can a student resubmit Canvas assignments?
Group Assignments
Assignment Management
- How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates as an instructor?
- How do I duplicate an assignment?
- How do I copy an assignment to another course?
- How do I send an assignment to another instructor?
- How do I assign an assignment to everyone in a course?
- How do I add a grading scheme to an assignment?
- How do I download all student submissions for an assignment?
- How do I upload all student submissions for an assignment?
Peer Reviewed Assignments
- How do I use peer review assignments in a course?
- How do I create a peer review assignment?
- How do I manually assign peer reviews for an assignment?
- How do I automatically assign peer reviews for an assignment?
- How do I view student peer review comments as an instructor?
Calendar
- How do I use the Calendar as an instructor?
- How do I filter the Calendar view by course as an instructor?
- How do I add an event to a course calendar?
- How do I add and duplicate an event in the Calendar as an instructor?
- How do I add an event to my calendar as an instructor?
- How do I add an assignment from the Calendar?
- How do I edit an event or assignment in the Calendar?
Calender Feeds
- How do I view the Calendar iCal feed to subscribe to an external calendar as an instructor?
- How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Google Calendar as an instructor?
- How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Outlook as an instructor?
- How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Outlook.com as an instructor?
Course Import Tool
- How do I copy content from another Canvas course using the Course Import tool?
- How do I import a Canvas course export package?
- How do I select specific content as part of a course import?
- How do I adjust events and due dates in a course import?
- How do I view the status of current and prior course imports?
- How do I import the UHD Template from The Commons?
Course Navigation
- How do I use the Course Home Page as an instructor?
- How do I use the Course Navigation Menu as an instructor?
- How do I manage Course Navigation links?
- What layout options are available in the Course Home Page as an instructor?
- How do I change the Course Home Page?
- How do I use the Course Activity Stream as an instructor?
Course/Sections
Discussions
- How do I use the Discussions Index Page?
- How do I create a discussion as an instructor?
- How do I publish or unpublish a discussion as an instructor?
- How do I edit a discussion in a course?
- How do I delay posting a discussion until a specified date in a course?
- How do I move or reorder a discussion in a course?
- How do I reply to a discussion as an instructor?
- How do I like a reply in a course discussion as an instructor?
- How do I delete a discussion in a course?
- How can I require students to reply to a course discussion before they see other replies?
- How do I edit or delete student discussion replies in a course?
- How do I attach a file to a discussion reply as an instructor?
- How do I link to a YouTube video in a discussion reply as an instructor?
- How do I embed an image in a discussion reply as an instructor?
- How do I close a discussion for comments in a course?
Managing Discussions
- How do I duplicate a discussion in a course?
- How do I copy a discussion to another course?
- How do I view and sort discussion replies as an instructor?
- How do I mark discussion replies as read or unread as an instructor?
- How do I pin a discussion in a course?
Graded Discussions
- How do I assign a graded discussion to everyone in a course?
- How do I assign a graded discussion to an individual student?
- How do I assign a graded discussion to a course group?
Group Discussions
Student Managed Discussions
- How do I allow students to create a course discussion?
- How do I allow students to attach files to a course discussion?
Peer Reviewed Discussions
Files
- How do I use Files as an instructor?
- How do I view my user files as an instructor?
- How do I move and organize my files as an instructor?
- How do I rename a file as an instructor?
- How do I create a folder in Files as an instructor?
- How do I upload a file to a course?
- How do I preview a file as an instructor?
- How do I upload ZIP files as an instructor?
- How do I delete a file or folder as an instructor?
- How do I download a folder in ZIP format as an instructor?
- How do I restrict files and folders to students in Canvas?
- What types of files can be previewed in Canvas?
Files Access Rights
- How do I set usage rights and user access for a course file?
- How do I set usage rights and user access for a course file folder?
Global Navigation
Dashboard
- How do I use the Dashboard as an instructor?
- How do I view my favorite courses in the Card View Dashboard as an instructor?
- How do I view grades in the Dashboard as an instructor?
- How do I use the To Do list and sidebar in the Dashboard as an instructor?
- How do I view global activity for all my courses in the Recent Activity Dashboard as an instructor?
Courses
- How do I customize my Courses list as an instructor?
- How do I view all my Canvas courses as an instructor?
Account
Groups
History
Grades/Gradebook
- How do I use the Gradebook?
- How do I arrange columns in the Gradebook?
- How do I use the Total column in the Gradebook?
- How do I sort and display student data in the Gradebook?
- How do I view assignments or students individually in the Gradebook?
- How do I apply scores to ungraded assignments as an Instructor?
- How do I enter and edit grades in the Gradebook?
- How do I view a student's Grades page in a course from the Gradebook?
- How do I leave comments for students in the Gradebook?
- How do I change the status of a submission in the Gradebook?
- How do I download all student submissions for an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I upload all student submissions for an assignment in the Gradebook?
Advanced
- How do I curve grades in the Gradebook?
- How do I set a default grade for an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I apply a Missing Submission policy in the Gradebook?
- How do I apply a Late Submission policy in the Gradebook?
- How do I override a student's final grade in the Gradebook?
- How do I send a message to students from the Gradebook?
- How do I publish final grades for a moderated assignment?
- How do I create assignment columns for non-submission assignments in the Gradebook?
- How do I enter grades for an individual assignment as a specific grading type in the Gradebook?
Speedgrader
- How do I get to SpeedGrader from the Gradebook?
- How do I get to SpeedGrader from an assignment, quiz, or graded discussion?
- How do I use SpeedGrader?
- How do I use the student list to view student submissions in SpeedGrader?
- How do I sort the student list in SpeedGrader?
- How do I view the details of a submission for a student in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade group assignments in SpeedGrader?
- How do I hide student names in SpeedGrader?
- How do I hide or post assignment grades in SpeedGrader?
- How do I add annotated comments in student submissions using DocViewer in SpeedGrader?
- How do I enter and edit grades in SpeedGrader?
- How do I change the status of a submission in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade a text entry submission in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade a website URL submission in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade a file upload submission in SpeedGrader?
- How do I audit an assessment in SpeedGrader?
- How do I use a rubric to grade submissions in SpeedGrader?
- How do I use a rubric to grade submissions in SpeedGrader using Rubric Enhancements?
- How do I use free-form comments instead of ratings in a rubric in SpeedGrader?
- How do I use a non-scoring rubric to assess submissions in SpeedGrader?
- How do I use the Comment Library in SpeedGrader?
- How do I leave feedback comments for student submissions in SpeedGrader?
- How do I record a webcam video, screen capture, or audio recording as a feedback comment in SpeedGrader?
- How do I upload a media file as a comment in SpeedGrader?
- How do I download submission comments as a PDF in SpeedGrader?
- How do I use Chrome's speech recognition feature to leave a comment in SpeedGrader?
- How do I reassign an assignment in SpeedGrader?
- How do I review moderated assignments in SpeedGrader as a moderator?
- How do I grade quiz questions in SpeedGrader?
- How do I adjust the point value for an entire quiz using fudge points in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade one quiz question at a time in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade a New Quizzes quiz question one at a time in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade a graded discussion in SpeedGrader?
- How do I view plagiarism assignments in SpeedGrader?
Grade Posting Policy
- How do I use posting policies in a course?
- How do I select a grade posting policy for a course in the Gradebook?
- How do I select a grade posting policy for an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I post grades for an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I hide grades that were previously posted in the Gradebook?
Sorting/Organization
- How do I filter columns and rows in the Gradebook?
- How do I sort an individual assignment column in the Gradebook?
- How do I view the Unpublished Assignments column in the Gradebook?
- How do I view the Split Student Names column in the Gradebook?
- How do I use the icons and colors in the Gradebook?
- How do I change the color for a grading status in the Gradebook?
Assignment Groups (Gradebook Columns)
- How do I add an assignment group in a course?
- How do I move or reorder an assignment group?
- How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?
- How do I create rules for an assignment group?
Learning Mastery
- How do I use the Learning Mastery Gradebook to view outcome results in a course from the Gradebook?
- How do I view outcomes or student results individually in the Learning Mastery Gradebook from the Gradebook?
Other
- How do I use grading periods in a course?
- How do I export grades in the Gradebook?
- How do I import grades in the Gradebook?
- How do I view total scores in the Gradebook as if all ungraded assignments were given zero grades?
- How do I view grades for inactive or concluded student enrollments in the Gradebook?
- How do I use the Notes column in the Gradebook?
- How do I view the history of all grading changes in the Gradebook?
Groups
- How do I view all groups in a course as an instructor?
- How do I manually assign students to groups?
- How do I assign a student leader to a group?
- How do I move a student into a different group?
- How do I automatically assign students to groups?
Group Sets
- How do I add a group set in a course?
- How do I edit a group set in a course?
- How do I delete a group set in a course?
- How do I import groups in a group set?
- How do I automatically create groups in a group set?
- How do I manually create groups in a group set?
- How do I create self sign-up groups in a group set?
Advanced
- How do I allow students to create their own student groups?
- How do I message students who have not signed up for a self sign-up group?
- How do I prevent students from switching groups in self sign-up groups?
- How do I view content and student activity within a group as an instructor?
Inbox
Conversations
- How do I use the Inbox as an instructor?
- How do I find my unread messages in the Inbox as an instructor?
- How do I filter conversations as an instructor?
- How do I star a conversation as an instructor?
- How do I delete a conversation as an instructor?
- How do I delete a message from a conversation as an instructor?
- How do I archive a conversation as an instructor?
Messages
- How do I send a message to a user in a course in the Inbox as an instructor?
- How do I send a message to a user in a student group in the Inbox as an instructor?
- How do I send a message to all course users in the Inbox as an instructor?
Attachments
- How do I attach a file to a message as an instructor?
- How do I attach a media comment to a message as an instructor?
Response
- How do I reply to a message in the Inbox as an instructor?
- How do I privately respond to one individual in a group message as an instructor?
- How do I reply to submission comments in the Inbox as an instructor?
- How do I forward a message from a conversation as an instructor?
- How do I add new people to an existing conversation as an instructor?
Modules
- How do I use the Modules Index Page?
- How do I add a module?
- How do I move or reorder a module?
- How do I publish or unpublish a module as an instructor?
Module Management
- How do I duplicate a module?
- How do I copy a module to another course?
- How do I send a module to another instructor?
- How do I remove module items?
- How do I move or reorder a module item?
Module Settings
- How do I add prerequisites to a module?
- How do I add requirements to a module?
- How do I edit a module?
- How do I lock a module?
- How do I delete a module?
Adding Content
- How do I add course content as module items?
- How do I add a quiz as a module item?
- How do I add a text header as a module item?
- How do I add an external tool as a module item?
- How do I add an external URL as a module item?
Pages
- How do I use the Pages Index Page?
- How do I publish or unpublish a page as an instructor?
- How do I create a new page in a course?
- How do I change the name of a page in a course?
- How do I edit a page in a course?
- How do I duplicate a page in a course?
- How do I copy a page to another course?
- How do I send a page to another instructor?
- How do I delete pages in a course?
- How do I set a Front Page in a course?
- How do I view the history of a page in a course?
Adding Content
- How do I upload a PDF to a page in a course?
- How do I link to other Canvas pages in a course?
- How do I add a page to the student To-Do list as an instructor?
- How do I embed a video in a page in a course?
- How do I create a file link in a page in a course?
People
- How do I use the People page in a course as an instructor?
- How do I view a user's profile in a course as an instructor?
- How do I record the last day a user attended a course?
- How do I view a summary of all my student interactions in a course?
- How do I view my course interactions with an individual student?
- How do I view the course access report for an individual user?
Profile and User Settings
- How do I edit my profile in my user account as an instructor?
- How do I change the settings in my user account as an instructor?
- How do I add a profile picture in my user account as an instructor?
- How do I select personal pronouns in my user account as an instructor?
- How do I change the language preference in my user account as an instructor?
- How do I set a time zone in my user account as an instructor?
- How do I view a QR code to log in to the Canvas mobile apps as an instructor?
- What feature settings can I enable in my user account as an instructor?
Notifications
- How do I manage my Canvas notification settings as an instructor?
- How do I manage notifications for a single course as an instructor?
Contact
- How do I change my default email address in my user account as an instructor?
- How do I add contact methods to receive Canvas notifications as an instructor?
- How do I add an additional email address as a contact method in Canvas as an instructor?
Shared Content
- How do I manage content shared to me from other users?
- How do I manage confetti animations in Canvas as an instructor?
Classic Quizzes
- How do I use the Quizzes Index Page?
- How do I publish or unpublish a quiz as an instructor?
- What quiz types can I create in a course?
- What options can I set in a quiz?
- How do I delete a quiz?
Question Types
- How do I create a quiz with individual questions?
- How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions?
- How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank?
- How do I create a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank?
- How do I create a Multiple Choice quiz question?
- How do I create a True/False quiz question?
- How do I create a Fill-in-the-Blank quiz question?
- How do I create a Fill-in-Multiple-Blanks quiz question?
- How do I create a Multiple Answers quiz question?
- How do I create a Multiple Dropdown quiz question?
- How do I create a Matching quiz question?
- How do I create a Numerical Answer quiz question?
- How do I create a Formula quiz question with a single variable?
- How do I create a Simple Formula quiz question?
- How do I create an Essay quiz question?
- How do I create a File Upload quiz question?
Question Banks
- How do I create a question bank in a course?
- How do I bookmark a question bank in a course?
- How do I delete a question bank in a course?
- How do I move multiple questions from one question bank to another?
- How do I reorder questions or question groups in a quiz?
Managing Quizzes
- How do I import a question bank from one Canvas course to another?
- How can I create a quiz where students only see one question at a time?
- How do I make a quiz available before or after the due date?
- How do I assign a quiz to an individual student?
- Once I publish a quiz, how do I make additional changes?
- Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts?
- Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time?
Sharing
- How do I copy a quiz to another course?
- How do I send a quiz to another instructor?
- How do I export quiz content from a course?
Grading
- What options can I use to regrade a quiz in a course?
- How do I regrade a Multiple Choice quiz question?
- How do I regrade a True/False quiz question?
- How do I regrade a Multiple Answers quiz question?
- How do I create a survey in my course?
- How do I view survey results in a course?
- How do I manually submit outstanding student quiz submissions?
- How do I view student results in a quiz?
- How do I view a quiz log for a student?
- How do I view practice quiz results in a course?
New Quizzes
- How do I create a quiz using New Quizzes?
- How do I duplicate a New Quizzes quiz?
- How do I migrate a Canvas quiz to New Quizzes?
- How do I import a quiz from a QTI package in New Quizzes?
- How do I use the Rich Content Editor in New Quizzes?
- How do I delete a New Quizzes quiz?
Question Types
- How do I create a Categorization question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create an Essay question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a File Upload question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Fill in the Blank question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Formula question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Hot Spot question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Matching question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Multiple Answer question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Multiple Choice question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Numeric question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create an Ordering question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a True or False question in New Quizzes?
- How do I insert stimulus content in New Quizzes?
- How do I duplicate an individual question in New Quizzes?
Managing Quizzes
- How do I add feedback to a question in New Quizzes?
- How do I reorder questions in New Quizzes?
- How do I edit a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I edit the assignment details of a New Quizzes quiz?
- How do I manage settings for a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I restrict students from viewing quiz results in New Quizzes?
- How do I preview a quiz in New Quizzes?
Grading
- How do I grade a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I regrade a quiz question in New Quizzes?
- How do I view student quiz results in New Quizzes?
Item Banks
- How do I manage item banks in New Quizzes?
- How do I create an item bank in New Quizzes?
- How do I add content to an item bank in New Quizzes?
- How do I import questions from a QTI package into an item bank in New Quizzes?
- How do I add an item from an item bank to a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I edit an item bank item in New Quizzes?
- How do I add all items or a random set from an item bank to a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I move or copy a question from one item bank to another in New Quizzes?
- How do I share an item bank in New Quizzes?
Outcomes
- How do I print a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I align an outcome to a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I align an outcome to a quiz question in New Quizzes?
- How do I view reports for a quiz in New Quizzes?
Moderation
- How do I use the Moderation page in New Quizzes?
- How do I moderate a student's quiz attempt in New Quizzes?
- How do I add accommodations for a student in New Quizzes?
Sharing
- How do I copy a quiz to another course in New Quizzes?
- How do I send a quiz to another instructor in New Quizzes?
Rich Content Editor (RCE)
- How do I access the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I add and modify text in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I use the menubar in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I resize the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I use the HTML view in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I use the Math Editor in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I use the Accessibility Checker in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
Hyperlinks
- How do I create hyperlinks to external URLs in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I create hyperlinks to course or group content in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I create hyperlinks to course, group, and user files in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I edit and remove hyperlinks in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
Adding Content
- How do I upload and embed an image in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I embed images from Canvas into the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I manage alt text and display options for images embedded in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I insert a table using the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I embed media from an external source in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I upload a document in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I embed documents from Canvas in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- How do I link to a YouTube video in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
Rubrics
- How do I manage rubrics in a course?
- How do I add a rubric in a course?
- How do I align an outcome with a rubric in a course?
- How do I add a rubric to an assignment?
- How do I add a rubric to a graded discussion?
- How do I add a rubric to a quiz?
- How do I use a rubric to grade submissions in SpeedGrader?
- How do I use free-form comments instead of ratings in a rubric in SpeedGrader?
- How do I use a non-scoring rubric to assess submissions in SpeedGrader?
Settings
- How do I add an image to a course card in the Dashboard?
- How do I set a time zone for a course?
- How do I change the language preference for a course?
- How do I enable SpeedGrader to launch filtered by student group?
- How do I show recent announcements in the Course Home Page?
- How do I hide totals in my students' grade summaries?
- How do I hide grade distribution scoring details from students?
- How do I validate links in a course?
- How do I view course statistics?
- How do I view a course as a test student using Student View?
Grading Schemes
- How do I use grading schemes in a course?
- How do I view grading schemes in a course?
- How do I enable a grading scheme for a course?
- How do I add a grading scheme in a course?
Syllabus
- How do I use the Syllabus as an instructor?
- How do I edit the Syllabus in a course?
- How to upload HB2504: eCV Instructions
- How to upload HB2504: eSyllabus Instructions
Third Party Tools
Turnitin
- How to create a Turnitin assignment in Canvas
- Turnitin Framework tool in Canvas
- Turnitin Guides from the vendor
Panopto
- How to record a video in Panopto
- How to embed captions in a Panopto video
- How to edit a video in Panopto
- How to embed or link a Panopto video in Canvas
- How to upload video files in Panopto
- How to share a Panopto video
- How to grant access requests for Panopto Videos
- How to create a video assignment in Canvas
- How to grade a video assignment in Canvas
- How to submit a video assignment in Canvas
- How to use a Panopto quiz as a Canvas Assignment
- How to take a quiz in Panopto
- How to install Panopto mobile application
Zoom
- How to get started with Zoom
- How to record presentations with Zoom
- How to view attendance report in Zoom
- How to secure your Zoom virtual classroom
- How to apply a passcode to a Zoom meeting
- How to enable waiting rooms in Zoom
- How to update Zoom
VoiceThread
Perusall
- How to get started with Perusall in Canvas
- How to get started with Perusall in Canvas for students
- How to use a keyboard (Accessibility) in Perusall
- How to create assignments in Perusall
- How to collaborate with other instructors in Perusall
- How to copy a course in Perusall
- How to download comments and grades in Perusall
- How to release grades in Perusall
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