Setting up your Canvas profile is one of the first things you should do before you teach on Canvas. You can add a short bio about yourself and upload a picture so … [Read more...]
Quick Tip: Personal Pronouns
Canvas users can now set their personal pronouns in their profile. These pronouns will display after the user's name in several places such as the discussion board, the … [Read more...]
Quick Tip: Finding Past Enrollments
When your course concludes, Canvas automatically moves it out of your Dashboard, but it's not gone forever. To locate courses from previous semesters: Click … [Read more...]
Instructors: Assignments Using Turnitin
Turnitin (Tii) is a “similarity check” tool that you can enable in Canvas assignments. Tii identifies text in student papers that matches against the text in websites, … [Read more...]
Students: Assignments Using TurnItIn
Your instructor may have enabled TurnItIn (Tii) on one or more of your assignments for a course. This application is used to help you understand more about your writing … [Read more...]
Quick Tip: Where’s My Feedback?
As a student, you can see all your feedback from the Grades tab when viewing on a browser. The score will display automatically, but you will need to click on the icons … [Read more...]
Canvas Student Tip: Canvas App. vs Browser
Using Canvas Canvas offers two ways to access your courses – a mobile app or web browser. Accessing the Canvas website on a desktop or laptop with a compatible browser … [Read more...]
Quick Tip: Delaying (and “Undelaying”) Announcements
We've discovered a few things about how Canvas handles announcements that are vital in organizing your course and getting information to students in the way you mean to. … [Read more...]
Canvas Best Practices for Students
In each of our courses, you can find the Online Course Resources tab on the course navigation bar, which will take you to a library of helpful documents about Canvas. … [Read more...]
Grade Posting Policy Use and Scenarios
What are Grade Posting Policies? Did you know that you have control over when assignment grades are visible to students? By default, all assignments post … [Read more...]