Canvas Overview

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. 

• 0:06 - 1:30 - Creating modules, adding assignments, quizzes, and discussions. Publishing modules.
• 1:31 - 2:20 - After populating your course with modules you are ready to publish the course.
• 2:21 - 3:40 - Creating an Assignment
• 3:41 - 4:18 - Uploading files (images, PPT, PDF, DOCX)
• 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 HERE
• you can visit the @ONE Self-Paced - Introduction to teaching with Canvas website

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 IVC 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.

• 0:11 - 0:27 - Sign up for a conferzoom account. Follow this link to sign up for ConferZoom
• 0:28 - 0:58 - Creating a quick launch event
• 1:00 - 1:42 - Zoom application overview, discover meeting options, mute participants and monitor chat
• 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.

• 0:11 - 1:03 - Copying courses, shift assignments dates automatically
• 1:04 - 1:58 - Export sections and keep an offline backup
• 1:59 - 2:27 - Import content and courses into empty canvas shells
• 2:28 - 3:24 - Cross-listing courses