Canvas: Introduction

Faculty use Canvas, the learning management system (LMS) UNCSA provides, to host course lessons, materials, interaction and assessment in an online environment.

Canvas Login 

Instructions for faculty's use of Canvas

Getting started

• Logging into Canvas
• Canvas features
• Beginning of Semester Tasks

Course management

• Course navigation, visibility, and student view
• Cross-listing (combining sections/courses)
• Account settings and notifications
• Canvas teacher app
• Course analytics

Course design

• Creating a course homepage
• Organizing content

Presentation and discussion

• Enable Zoom meetings in Canvas class navigation
• Discussion

Assignments

• Assignments and Speedgrader
• Creating and weighting assignment groups
• Add the assignment to a module
• Grading assignments
• Creating and weighting assignments groups
• Dropping lowest (and/or highest) grade(s) in an assignment group
• Setting a late assignment policy

Assessments

• Provide extra time for student accommodations
• Build and use an assessment bank
• Assessment adjustments
• Duplicate assessments

Rubrics

• Creating a rubric and adding it to an assignment

Canvas gradebook

• Posting grades
• Hiding grades
• Final grade override

Importing course content 

• Import SCORM files as an assignment (opens in new tab)
• Import select specific content as part of a course import (opens in new tab)
• Import Thin Common Cartridge files as separate modules (opens in new tab)
• Import grades in the Gradebook (opens in new tab)
• Import groups in a group set (opens in new tab)
• Import outcomes for a course (opens in new tab)
• Import outcomes into a course in Improved Outcomes Management (opens in new tab)
• Import SCORM files as a page
• Import quizzes from QTI packages (opens in new tab)
• Import a question bank from one Canvas course to another (opens in new tab)
• Import a quiz from a QTI package in New Quizzes (opens in new tab)
• Import questions from a QTI package into an item bank in New Quizzes (opens in new tab)

Copying course content 

• Copy an announcement to another course (opens in new tab)
• Copy an assignment to another course (opens in new tab)
• Copy a course into a new course shell (opens in new tab)
• Copy content from another course using the Course Import tool (opens in new tab)
• Copy a discussion to another course (opens in new tab)
• Copy a module to another course (opens in new tab)
• Copy a module item to another course (opens in new tab)
• Copy a page to another course (opens in new tab)
• Move/copy a question from one question bank to another (opens in new tab)
• Copy a quiz to another course
• Move/copy a question from one item bank to another in New Quizzes (opens in new tab)
• Copy a quiz to another course in New Quizzes (opens in new tab)

Sharing course content 

• Share a private ePortfolio as an instructor (opens in new tab)
• Share an item bank in New Quizzes (opens in new tab)

Additional Canvas Resources

• Instructor Canvas Guide (opens in new tab)

Canvas Support

• Kate Douglass - Canvas Support
• Requests via facultysupport@uncsa.edu are forwarded to available support personnel.