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their educational and career goals; and to be responsive to the greater community.
Watch and learn the basics of creating a Canvas course. We cover topics like publishing
content to modules, creating assignments, uploading files, hyperlinking and finally
publishing your course so your students have access to it.
4:19 - 5:30 - Learn to create normal text into web-lnks
Additional tutorials can be found down below.
You can also visit the Canvas Faculty Orientation Course
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Building a Front-Page
Learn to build a front page that captures the attention of your students and orients
them to what is the most up to date and newsworthy information. In this video, we
learn to create pages, embed pictures, videos, create hyperlinks and how to set it
up as a home page.
0:46 - 0:57 - Creating a page
0:58 - 1:35 - Uploading, embedding and resizing images
1:39 - 2:04 - Customize Fonts and creating tables
2:05 - 2:36 - Creating hyperlinks
2:37 - 3:03 - Embedding YouTube videos
3:04 - 3:32 - Set home page or front page
Customize Menus
Displaying too many menus in Canvas could confuse students. Disabling unwanted menus
creates a fluid environment for your students. In this course, we will learn to disable/enable
menus in our course.
0:11 - 0:29 - Using student-view mode to see how students interact with our course
0:30 - 0:41 - Navigate to the menus settings
0:42 - 1:02 - Enable/Disable menus
1:03 - 1:11 - Always save your work
1:12 - 1:30 - Review your work in student view
Attendance Tool
Activating the attendance tool in Canvas is a few clicks away. Begin marking absences,
tardiness and running reports with the tool. Also, learn how to unlink attendance
from the grade book.
0:11 - 0:29 - Using student-view mode to see how students interact with our course
0:10 - 0:30 - Navigate to the menus settings and activate the Attendance menu
0:31 - 0:48 - Using the tool
0:49 - 1:44 - Unlink grade book from attendance by editing the roll call attendance
assignment
1:45 - 2:08 - Run reports
Quizzes
Learn how to create and set the options available for quizzes. Create question banks
and randomize the quiz questions.
0:10 - 0:20 - Create the quiz
0:21 - 1:10 - Apply instructions, details and set options for your quizzes
1:11 - 2:04 - Creating the questions
2:05 - 2:45 - Setup question banks
NetTutor
NetTutor is a free online tutoring service provided to all 色中色 students via Canvas.
Learn how to activate it for your class and observe some real live examples of how
your students can make the most of this tool.
0:28 - 0:47 - Activate NetTutor for your class
0:48 - 1:04 - Choosing the subject area
1:05 - 1:37 - Available options
1:38 - 2:00 - Dropping off a paper
2:01 - 2:26 - Live chat session with whiteboard
2:27 - 2:47 - Dropping off a question
2:48 - 3:00 - Explore your previous tutoring sessions and view feedback to dropped
off questions
ConferZoom
Schedule appointments and host meetings with Canvas through ConferZoom and the Zoom
application.
1:43 - 2:10 - Share a screen with the attendees or a whiteboard
2:12 - 2:40 - Creating virtual appointments for your students
2:41 - 2:53 - View cloud recordings and event attendance
Import Export Cross-List
Learn to copy courses to empty canvas shells to repurpose and re-use previously created
content. Export specific content into other courses and manage different classes of
the same subject in one single canvas by cross-listing.
