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 System (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
• Troubleshooting access to your Canvas course (Instructors)

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
  • Change the assignment submission deadline default time
  • Add a green banner with white text to a page with the HTML code:
    • <h2 style="color: #ffffff; border-top: 8pt solid #024230; background: #00694e; padding-left: 5px; text-align: left;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></h2>
• Explore Canvas Commons, a repository for course content that enables instructors to find, import, and share resources
  • You can import shared modules, assignments, quizzes, discussions, pages, or files from Commons into your Canvas courses
  • You can also share your own course content with other Ohio University faculty using Commons
• 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.
  • Importing Quizzes from Blackboard and Migrating Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes in Canvas
  • Providing Student Accommodations for Online Assessments in Canvas
• 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, test courses/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 Course Accessibility Checklist
• Canvas LMS Implementation Updates
• Canvas Experts Corner Blog