Course Syllabus
Welcome to Canvas!
PURPOSE - This course has been developed to introduce faculty and staff to the new institutional learning management system, CANVAS. Upon completion of this course, faculty and staff should be able to master the major tools and features available in CANVAS in order to be assigned either an INSTRUCTOR (faculty) or Teaching Assistant/TA (staff) role in Canvas.
Canvas Browser Check - We suggest you use Google Chrome or Firefox but browsers change requirements often- hence click on Canvas Browser Check.
INSTRUCTOR or TEACHING ASSISTANT (TA) TRAINING - If a faculty or staff member wants to have an INSTRUCTOR or TA role in any CANVAS course, they should review this course
ACCESS to your COURSES
In the LEFT hand menu, click on User Dashboard, click on the arrow next to COURSES and view your courses.
OBJECTIVES - Please click on this link to view the course objectives
QUESTIONS -
If you have questions about CANVAS, please first access the CANVAS GUIDES located in the HELP corner (upper right corner) of each page in CANVAS. These guides are quite helpful.
We have also included a CHECKLIST that you can use to review your course
START -
Scroll down to review the short (less than 5 minutes each) video tutorials from this page.
Instructors
- Announcements Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Assignments Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Calendar Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Canvas Teacher App Links to an external site.
- Canvas Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Chat Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Collaborations Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Commons Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Commons: Find and Import Resources (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Commons: Sharing Resources (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Conferences Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Courses: Creation & Management (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Course and Student Analytics Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Course Home Page Customization (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Course Settings (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Discussions Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Files Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- New Gradebook Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Groups Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Modules Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Outcomes Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Pages Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- People Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Quizzes Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- New Quizzes Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- Rubrics Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
- SpeedGrader Overview (Instructors) Links to an external site.
Course Summary:
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