Canvas: Instructors

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

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

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 instructions on how to embed Panopto videos to your Canvas course.

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

Instructors can merge multiple courses into one Canvas course.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 download SCORM content from Blackboard and upload SCORM to Canvas.

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).

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.