Help and Resources: Canvas (Instructors)

Table of Contents

• Help Articles
  • Canvas overview
  • Getting started
  • Setting up your course
  • Assignments, quizzes, and grading
  • Communication
  • Analytics and reporting
  • Third-party integrations (publisher content and add-on tools)
  • Moving content from Blackboard to Canvas
• Getting help from Canvas
• Getting help from OIT
• Additional resources

Help Articles

Canvas Overview

• Visit our Canvas Learning Management (LMS) service page for an overview of Canvas.

Getting Started

• Access Canvas.
• Review our Getting Started with Canvas (Instructors) guide.
• Understand the differences between Canvas and Blackboard (a feature comparison).
• Get Canvas training.
• Learn about the content editor in Canvas.
• Adding and removing TAs, instructors, and other users in a Canvas course.
• Merging courses in Canvas (cross-listing).
• Requesting a manually created course.
• Requesting access to the Growing with Canvas instructor course.
• Supported browsers and device requirements.

Setting Up Your Course

• Applying the OHIO Canvas course templates.
• Moving course content from Blackboard to Canvas.
• Uploading files to Canvas from Blackboard, OneDrive, or your device.
• Customize your course navigation.
• Customize your course settings.
• Learn about using files in your course.
• Learn about course modules.
• Learn about course pages.
• Learn about the People feature in your Canvas course (class roster).
• Learn how to set up and use groups in your course.
• Learn about attendance tracking.
• Set up your course calendar.
• Set up or upload your syllabus.

Assignments, Quizzes, and Grading

• Assignments
• Discussions
  • Canvas is redesigning their discussion tool; Discussion Redesign will be added to Canvas for summer 2024.
• Collaborations
  • How do I use the Collaborations Index Page?
  • How do I create a Microsoft 365 (M365) collaboration as an instructor?
  • How do I delete a collaboration as an instructor?
• Quizzes
• Any tests that you bring over from Blackboard will become Quizzes in Canvas.
• Canvas has redesigned this assessment feature and has recently introduced New Quizzes.
• Rubrics
• Grading
  • In Canvas, the grade book is called Grades.
  • The grading tools in Canvas are referred to as SpeedGrader.

Communication

• Broadcast information with Announcements.
  • Canvas is redesigning the announcements tool; Announcements Redesign will be added to Canvas for summer 2024.
• Use Inbox for messages, conversations, and threads.

Analytics and Reporting

• Use New Analytics to track average course grades.
• Use Impact Course Reports to view student activity and tool usage.
• Use Course Statistics to discover which assignments, discussions, and quizzes are engaging students.

Third-party Integrations

• Using third-party integrations in Canvas (publisher content and add-on tools).
• Getting started with VoiceThread in Canvas.
• Embedding Panopto videos in a Canvas course.
• Creating a Turnitin assignment in Canvas.
• Using SpeedGrader to grade a Turnitin assignment in Canvas.
• Using SCORM in Canvas.

Moving Content from Blackboard to Canvas

• Importing a full course to Canvas from Blackboard.
• Uploading Blackboard Original tests, surveys, pools, and rubrics to Canvas.
• Uploading files to Canvas from Blackboard, OneDrive, or your device.
• Sharing Panopto content between Blackboard and Canvas.

Get Help from Canvas

• Live chat with Canvas support (Faculty) 
• Get 24-hours/7-days a week Canvas support  
  • Dial the Canvas Support Hotline number located under "Get Help" in the Canvas Global Navigation Menu 
  • Contact OIT at 740-593-1222 for questions related to logging in, manually created courses, or third-party tools (Panopto, VoiceThread, Inclusive Access, etc.) 

Get Help from OIT

• Use the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) ticket form to submit a help ticket 
• Visit the Technology Resources and Training page for available training 

Additional Resources

• Canvas Basics Guide 
• Canvas Instructor Guide 
• Canvas Video Guide 
• Mobile Guides 
• Canvas LMS Implementation updates