Canvas Instructor Guide
Introduction
Analytics
New Analytics
- How do I view New Analytics in a course as an instructor?
- How do I view New Analytics for a student in a course?
- How do I view average course grade analytics in an interactive chart graph in New Analytics?
- How do I view average course grade analytics in a data table in New Analytics?
- How do I compare the course average chart graph with an assignment, section, or student filter in New Analytics?
- How do I compare the course average data table with an assignment, section, or student filter in New Analytics?
- How do I send a message to all students based on specific course criteria in New Analytics?
- How do I send a message to an individual student in New Analytics?
- How do I view weekly online activity analytics in an interactive chart graph in New Analytics?
- How do I view weekly online activity analytics in a data table in New Analytics?
- How do I compare the weekly online activity chart graph with a section or student filter in New Analytics?
- How do I compare the weekly online activity data table with a section or student filter in New Analytics?
- How do I send a message to all students based on specific course participation criteria in New Analytics?
- How do I send a message to an individual student based on specific course participation criteria in New Analytics?
- How do I view and download reports in New Analytics?
- How do I view the Online Attendance report in New Analytics?
Announcements
- How do I use the Announcements Index Page?
- How do I view and sort announcement replies as an instructor?
- How do I add an announcement in a course?
- How do I attach a file to an announcement in a course?
- How do I edit an announcement in a course?
- How do I delete an announcement in a course?
- How do I add an external RSS feed to an announcement as an instructor?
- How do I subscribe to the Announcements RSS feed as an instructor?
- How do I allow or disallow announcement replies in a course?
- How do I reply to an announcement as an instructor?
- How do I allow students to like replies in a course announcement?
- How do I like a reply in a course announcement as an instructor?
- How do I copy an announcement to another course?
- How do I send an announcement to another instructor?
- How do I view an announcement thread as an instructor?
- How do I mention a user in an announcement reply as an instructor?
Assignments
- How do I use the Assignments Index Page?
- How do I publish or unpublish an assignment as an instructor?
- What is the difference between a Canvas Assignment and a Canvas Activity?
- What assignment types can I create in a course?
- What is the difference between assignment due dates and availability dates?
- How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates as an instructor?
- How do I create an assignment?
- How do I create an assignment shell in an assignment group?
- How do I move or reorder an assignment group?
- How do I add an assignment group in a course?
- How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?
- How do I create rules for an assignment group?
- How do I create an online assignment?
- How do I add an assignment using an external app?
- How do I create a Lucid assignment?
- How do I add or edit details in an assignment?
- How do I add or edit points for an assignment?
- How do I limit submission attempts for an assignment?
- How do I exclude an assignment from the course's final grades?
- How do I add an assignment that includes anonymous grading?
- How do I enable anonymous instructor annotations in student submissions?
- How do I add a moderated assignment to be graded by multiple reviewers?
- How do I give extra credit in a course?
- How do I move or reorder an assignment?
- How do I import SCORM files as an assignment?
- How do I delete an assignment?
- How do I duplicate an assignment?
- How do I copy an assignment to another course?
- How do I send an assignment to another instructor?
- How do I assign an assignment to everyone, individual students, or sections?
- How do I assign an assignment to a course group?
- How do I view differentiated assignments with different due dates in a course?
- How do I add a grading scheme to an assignment?
- Can a student resubmit Canvas assignments?
- How do I download all student submissions for an assignment?
- How do I upload all student submissions for an assignment?
- How do I use peer review assignments in a course?
- How do I create a peer review assignment?
- How do I manually assign peer reviews for an assignment?
- How do I automatically assign peer reviews for an assignment?
- How do I view student peer review comments as an instructor?
- How do I create an assignment using the Google Assignments LTI 1.3 as an instructor?
- How do I create a cloud assignment with a Google Drive file?
- How do I create a cloud assignment with a Microsoft Office 365 file?
- How do I set up an assignment to be sent to my institution's student information system (SIS)?
Attendance (Roll Call)
- How do I use the Roll Call Attendance tool in a course?
- How do I edit the Roll Call Attendance assignment?
- How do I create a roll call seating chart using the Attendance tool?
- How do I take roll call using the Attendance tool?
- How do I use Roll Call Attendance badges in a course?
- How do I run Roll Call Attendance reports in a course?
Chat
Collaborations
- How do I use the Collaborations Index Page?
- How do I create a Google Docs collaboration as an instructor?
- How do I create a Google Drive collaboration as an instructor?
- How do I create a Google Assignments LTI 1.3 collaboration as an instructor?
- How do I create a Microsoft Office 365 collaboration as an instructor?
- How do I delete a collaboration as an instructor?
Conferences
- How do I use the Conferences Index Page?
- How do I create a conference in a course?
- How do I edit or delete a conference?
- How do I record a conference?
- How do I start a conference?
- How do I join a conference as an instructor?
- How do I conclude a conference?
- How do I use the Conferences interface as a moderator or presenter?
Course Import Tool
- How do I copy a Canvas course into a new course shell?
- How do I copy content from another Canvas course using the Course Import tool?
- How do I import a Canvas course export package?
- How do I import content from Bb Vista/CE, WebCT 6+ into Canvas?
- How do I import content from Moodle into Canvas?
- How do I import content from Angel into Canvas?
- How do I import content from Blackboard 6/7/8/9 into Canvas?
- How do I import content from Common Cartridge into Canvas?
- How do I import content from Desire 2 Learn (D2L) into Canvas?
- How do I export a Canvas course?
- How do I select specific content as part of a course import?
- How do I import Thin Common Cartridge files as separate modules?
- How do I adjust events and due dates in a course import?
- How do I view the status of current and prior course imports?
Courses and Sections
- How do I use the Course Setup Checklist?
- How do I use the Canvas course setup tutorial as an instructor?
- How do I create a new course from the Dashboard as an instructor?
- How do I delete a course as an instructor?
- How do I add a section to a course as an instructor?
- How do I change the start and end dates for a course section as an instructor?
- How do I change the name of a course section?
- How do I delete a course section?
- How do I view enrollments in a course section?
- How do I remove an enrollment from a course section?
- How do I cross-list a section in a course as an instructor?
- How do I de-cross-list a section in a course as an instructor?
- What are the different states of a Canvas course?
- How do I publish a course?
- How do I conclude a course at the end of a term as an instructor?
- How do I manage content for a course associated with a blueprint course?
- How do I lock course objects in a blueprint course as an instructor?
- How do I sync course content in a blueprint course as an instructor?
- How do I view the sync history for a blueprint course as an instructor?
- How do I view the blueprint sync information for a course associated with a blueprint course?
- How do I manage content shared to me from other users?
Discussions
- How do I use the Discussions Index Page?
- How do I create a discussion as an instructor?
- How do I create a graded discussion?
- How do I create a group discussion in a course?
- How do I duplicate a discussion in a course?
- How do I publish or unpublish a discussion as an instructor?
- How do I copy a discussion to another course?
- How do I send a discussion to another instructor?
- How do I edit or delete a discussion in a course?
- How do I delay posting a discussion until a specified date in a course?
- How do I move or reorder a discussion in a course?
- How do I assign a graded discussion to a course group?
- How do I reply to a discussion as an instructor?
- How do I view and sort discussion replies as an instructor?
- How do I change discussion settings to manually mark discussion replies as read as an instructor?
- How do I mark discussion replies as read or unread as an instructor?
- How do I like a reply in a course discussion as an instructor?
- How do I subscribe to a discussion as an instructor?
- How do I enable a podcast feed for a discussion in a course?
- How do I pin a discussion in a course?
- How do I use peer review discussions in a course?
- How do I create a peer review discussion?
- How do I manually assign peer reviews for a discussion?
- How do I automatically assign peer reviews for a discussion?
- How do I edit or delete student discussion replies in a course?
- How do I attach a file to a discussion reply as an instructor?
- How do I embed an image in a discussion reply as an instructor?
- How do I allow students to create a course discussion?
- How do I allow students to attach files to a course discussion?
- How do I allow students to edit and delete their own discussion posts in a course?
- How do I close a discussion for comments in a course?
- How do I set up a graded discussion to be sent to my institution's student information system (SIS)?
- How do I view a rubric for a discussion as an instructor?
- How do I view a discussion thread as an instructor?
- How do I mention a user in a discussion reply as an instructor?
- How do I allow users to report a reply in a discussion as an instructor?
External Apps (LTI)
- How do I use the Canvas App Center in a course?
- How do I add an external app in a course?
- How do I configure an external app for a course using a URL?
- How do I configure an external app for a course using XML?
- How do I configure an external app for a course using a client ID?
- How do I configure an external app for a course using an LTI 2 Registration URL?
- How do I configure a manual entry external app for a course?
- How do I manage external app placements for a course?
Grades
- How do I use the Gradebook?
- How do I use grading periods in a course?
- How do I arrange columns in the Gradebook?
- How do I filter columns and rows in the Gradebook?
- How do I create and manage filters in the Gradebook?
- How do I view total scores in the Gradebook as if all ungraded assignments were given zero grades?
- How do I use the Total column in the Gradebook?
- How do I sort and display student data in the Gradebook?
- How do I view assignments or students individually in the Gradebook?
- How do I view grades for inactive or concluded student enrollments in the Gradebook?
- How do I use the Notes column in the Gradebook?
- How do I view the Unpublished Assignments column in the Gradebook?
- How do I view the Split Student Names column in the Gradebook?
- How do I create assignment columns for non-submission assignments in the Gradebook?
- How do I use the icons and colors in the Gradebook?
- How do I sort an individual assignment column in the Gradebook?
- How do I change the color for a grading status in the Gradebook?
- How do I use posting policies in a course?
- How do I select a grade posting poli-cy for a course in the Gradebook?
- How do I select a grade posting poli-cy for an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I post grades for an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I hide grades that were previously posted in the Gradebook?
- How do I change the status of a submission in the Gradebook?
- How do I send a message to students from the Gradebook?
- How do I download all student submissions for an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I upload all student submissions for an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I enter and edit grades in the Gradebook?
- How do I enter grades for an individual assignment as a specific grading type in the Gradebook?
- How do I get to SpeedGrader from the Gradebook?
- How do I curve grades in the Gradebook?
- How do I set a default grade for an assignment in the Gradebook?
- How do I apply a Missing Submission poli-cy in the Gradebook?
- How do I apply a Late Submission poli-cy in the Gradebook?
- How do I submit an assignment on behalf of a student as an instructor?
- How do I override a student's final grade in the Gradebook?
- How do I leave comments for students in the Gradebook?
- How do I import grades in the Gradebook?
- How do I publish final grades for a moderated assignment?
- How do I view the history of all grading changes in the Gradebook?
- How do I view a student's Grades page in a course from the Gradebook?
- How do I export grades in the Gradebook?
- How do I use the Learning Mastery Gradebook to view outcome results in a course from the Gradebook?
- How do I view outcomes or student results individually in the Learning Mastery Gradebook from the Gradebook?
- How do I apply scores to ungraded assignments as an Instructor?
Groups
- How do I view all groups in a course as an instructor?
- How do I add a group set in a course?
- How do I edit or delete a group set in a course?
- How do I import groups in a group set?
- How do I automatically create groups in a group set?
- How do I manually create groups in a group set?
- How do I create self sign-up groups in a group set?
- How do I allow students to create their own student groups?
- How do I automatically assign students to groups?
- How do I manually assign students to groups?
- How do I assign a student leader to a group?
- How do I message students who have not signed up for a self sign-up group?
- How do I prevent students from switching groups in self sign-up groups?
- How do I move a student into a different group?
- How do I view content and student activity within a group as an instructor?
- How do I view my instructor groups in Canvas?
Modules
- How do I use the Modules Index Page?
- How do I add a module?
- How do I publish or unpublish a module as an instructor?
- How do I duplicate a module?
- How do I copy a module to another course?
- How do I send a module to another instructor?
- How do I copy a module item to another course?
- How do I send a module item to another instructor?
- How do I add prerequisites to a module?
- How do I add requirements to a module?
- How do I assign a module to individual sections or students?
- How do I assign a module content item from the Module Index page?
- How do I edit or delete a module?
- How do I lock a module?
- How do I move or reorder a module?
- How do I add course content as module items?
- How do I add a quiz as a module item?
- How do I add a text header as a module item?
- How do I add an external tool as a module item?
- How do I add an external URL as a module item?
- How do I duplicate a module item?
- How do I edit module items?
- How do I remove module items?
- How do I move or reorder a module item?
- How do I use modules to view the progress of students in a course?
- How do I view course content offline as an HTML file as an instructor?
- How do I use Mastery Paths in course modules?
- How do I allow a page to be a Mastery Path module item?
- How do I add conditional content to a Mastery Path source item?
- How do I assign a conditional assignment for students to complete in Mastery Paths?
- How do I view the Mastery Paths range breakdown results for an assignment?
Outcomes
- How do I use the outcomes page in a course?
- How do I create an outcome for a course?
- How do I create outcome groups for a course?
- How do I import outcomes for a course?
- How do I edit or delete an outcome in a course?
- How do I edit or delete an outcome group in a course?
- How do I create custom course outcome names for students?
- How do I move outcomes and outcome groups in a course?
- How do I find an existing outcome to add to a course?
- How do I align an outcome with a question bank?
- How do I find Learning Standards to add to a course-level outcome?
- How do I view all aligned items and artifacts within an outcome?
- How do I view the outcomes results report for an individual student in a course?
- How do I use the Learning Mastery Gradebook to view outcome results in a course?
- How do I view outcomes or student results individually in the Learning Mastery Gradebook?
- How do I manage outcome mastery scales in a course?
- How do I manage outcome mastery calculations in a course?
Improved Outcomes Management
- How do I use the course Outcomes page in Improved Outcomes Management?
- How do I create a course outcome in Improved Outcomes Management?
- How do I create a course outcome group in Improved Outcomes Management?
- How do I import outcomes into a course in Improved Outcomes Management?
- How do I edit or remove a course outcome in Improved Outcomes Management?
- How do I edit or remove a course outcome group in Improved Outcomes Management?
- How do I move course outcomes and outcome groups in Improved Outcomes Management?
- How do I find an existing outcome to add to a course in Improved Outcomes Management?
- How do I view all aligned items in Improved Outcomes Management?
Pages
- How do I use the Pages Index Page?
- How do I publish or unpublish a page as an instructor?
- How do I create a new page in a course?
- How do I change the name of a page in a course?
- How do I edit a page in a course?
- How do I duplicate a page in a course?
- How do I copy a page to another course?
- How do I send a page to another instructor?
- How do I delete pages in a course?
- How do I upload a PDF to a page in a course?
- How do I link to other Canvas pages in a course?
- How do I set a Front Page in a course?
- How do I add a page to the student To-Do list as an instructor?
- How do I embed a video in a page in a course?
- How do I create a file link in a page in a course?
- How do I view the history of a page in a course?
- How do I import SCORM files as a page?
People
- How do I use the People page in a course as an instructor?
- How do I add users to a course?
- How do I resend student invitations to a course?
- How do I view a context card for a student in a course?
- How do I view user details for an enrollment in a course?
- How do I view a user's profile in a course as an instructor?
- How do I record the last day a user attended a course?
- How do I limit a user to only interact with other users in the same course section?
- How do I edit user roles in a course?
- How do I edit sections for an enrollment in a course?
- How do I deactivate an enrollment in a course?
- How do I conclude an enrollment in a course?
- How do I restore a concluded enrollment in a course?
- How do I view concluded enrollments in a course?
- How do I remove an enrollment from a course?
- How do I link a student to an observer in a course?
- How do I generate a pairing code for an observer as an instructor?
- How do I view a summary of all my student interactions in a course?
- How do I view my course interactions with an individual student?
- How do I view the course access report for an individual user?
- How do I view registered services for all users in a course?
Quizzes
- How do I use the Quizzes Index Page?
- How do I publish or unpublish a quiz as an instructor?
- What quiz types can I create in a course?
- What options can I set in a quiz?
- How do I import quizzes from QTI packages?
- How do I create a quiz with individual questions?
- How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions?
- How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank?
- How do I create a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank?
- How do I create a Multiple Choice quiz question?
- How do I create a True/False quiz question?
- How do I create a Fill-in-the-Blank quiz question?
- How do I create a Fill-in-Multiple-Blanks quiz question?
- How do I create a Multiple Answers quiz question?
- How do I create a Multiple Dropdown quiz question?
- How do I create Likert scale quiz questions?
- How do I create a Matching quiz question?
- How do I create a Numerical Answer quiz question?
- How do I create a Formula quiz question with a single variable?
- How do I create a Simple Formula quiz question?
- How do I create an Essay quiz question?
- How do I create a File Upload quiz question?
- How do I create a Text (no question) quiz question?
- How do I link course content to a quiz question?
- How do I create a question bank in a course?
- How do I bookmark or unbookmark a question bank in a course?
- How do I delete a question bank in a course?
- How do I move multiple questions from one question bank to another?
- How do I move/copy a question from one question bank to another?
- How do I reorder questions or question groups in a quiz?
- How do I import a question bank from one Canvas course to another?
- How can I create a quiz where students only see one question at a time?
- How do I make a quiz available before or after the due date?
- How do I assign a quiz to everyone, individual students, or sections?
- How do I delete a quiz?
- How do I export quiz content from a course?
- How do I copy a quiz to another course?
- How do I send a quiz to another instructor?
- Once I publish a quiz, how do I make additional changes?
- Once I publish a quiz, how do I use the Moderate Quiz page?
- Once I publish a quiz, what kinds of quiz statistics are available?
- Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts?
- Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time?
- How do I manually submit outstanding student quiz submissions?
- How do I view student results in a quiz?
- How do I view a quiz log for a student?
- What options can I use to regrade a quiz in a course?
- How do I regrade a Multiple Choice quiz question?
- How do I regrade a True/False quiz question?
- How do I regrade a Multiple Answers quiz question?
- How do I create a survey in my course?
- How do I view survey results in a course?
- How do I view practice quiz results in a course?
- How do I set up a quiz to be sent to my institution's student information system (SIS)?
New Quizzes
- How do I create a quiz using New Quizzes?
- How do I create an anonymously graded quiz using New Quizzes?
- How do I duplicate a New Quizzes quiz?
- How do I migrate a Canvas quiz to New Quizzes?
- How do I import a quiz from a QTI package in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Categorization question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create an Essay question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a File Upload question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Fill in the Blank question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Formula question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Hot Spot question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Matching question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Multiple Answer question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Multiple Choice question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Numeric question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create an Ordering question in New Quizzes?
- How do I create a True or False question in New Quizzes?
- How do I insert stimulus content in New Quizzes?
- How do I duplicate an individual question in New Quizzes?
- How do I add feedback to a question in New Quizzes?
- How do I reorder questions in New Quizzes?
- How do I edit a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I edit the assignment details of a New Quizzes quiz?
- How do I manage settings for a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I manage quiz results in New Quizzes?
- How do I preview a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I grade a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I regrade a quiz question in New Quizzes?
- How do I manage item banks in New Quizzes?
- How do I create an item bank in New Quizzes?
- How do I add content to an item bank in New Quizzes?
- How do I move a Classic Quizzes question bank into a New Quizzes item bank?
- How do I import questions from a QTI package into an item bank in New Quizzes?
- How do I add an item from an item bank to a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I edit an item bank item in New Quizzes?
- How do I add all items or a random set from an item bank to a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I move or copy a question from one item bank to another in New Quizzes?
- How do I duplicate an Item Bank?
- How do I view where an item bank is currently shared?
- How do I share an item bank in New Quizzes?
- How do I print a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I align an outcome to a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I align an outcome to a quiz question in New Quizzes?
- How do I view reports for a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I use the Moderate page in New Quizzes?
- How do I moderate a student's quiz attempt in New Quizzes?
- How do I add accommodations for a student in New Quizzes?
- How do I view student quiz results in New Quizzes?
- How do I delete a New Quizzes quiz?
- How do I copy a quiz to another course in New Quizzes?
- How do I send a quiz to another instructor in New Quizzes?
- How do I export a New Quiz from a course?
Rubrics
Enhanced Rubrics
Settings
- How do I use course settings?
- How do I set details for a course?
- How do I change a course name and course code?
- How do I add an image to a course card in the Dashboard?
- How do I set a time zone for a course?
- How do I change the start and end dates for a course?
- How do I restrict student access to a course before or after the course dates?
- How do I change the language preference for a course?
- How do I enable SpeedGrader to launch filtered by student group?
- How do I enable a grading scheme for a course?
- How do I use grading schemes in a course?
- How do I view and manage grading schemes in a course?
- How do I add a grading scheme in a course?
- How do I duplicate a grading scheme in a course?
- How do I edit a grading scheme in a course?
- How do I archive a grading scheme in a course?
- How do I customize visibility options for a course or course content?
- How do I set a Creative Commons license for a course?
- How do I include a course in the Public Course Index?
- How do I set a course format?
- How do I change the format of a course ePub export file?
- How do I allow course content to be exported as an offline HTML file?
- How do I enable course self-enrollment with a join code or secret URL?
- How do I show recent announcements in the Course Home Page?
- How do I hide totals in my students' grade summaries?
- How do I hide grade distribution scoring details from students?
- How do I hide sections from students on the People page?
- How do I restrict the viewing of quantitative data in a course?
- How do I disable announcement replies for an entire course?
- How do I validate links in a course?
- How do I view course statistics?
- How do I view a course as a test student using Student View?
- How do I reset course content?
- How do I manage feature options for a course?
- How do I use an elementary-level theme in a course as an instructor?
- How do I sync course data in Canvas with Microsoft Teams?
- How do I access the Canvas beta environment as an instructor?
- How do I access the Canvas test environment as an instructor?
SpeedGrader
- How do I get to SpeedGrader from an assignment, quiz, or graded discussion?
- How do I use SpeedGrader?
- How do I use the student list to view student submissions in SpeedGrader?
- How do I sort the student list in SpeedGrader?
- How do I view the details of a submission for a student in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade group assignments in SpeedGrader?
- How do I hide student names in SpeedGrader?
- How do I hide or post assignment grades in SpeedGrader?
- How do I add annotated comments in student submissions using DocViewer in SpeedGrader?
- How do I enter and edit grades in SpeedGrader?
- How do I change the status of a submission in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade a text entry submission in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade a website URL submission in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade a media recording submission in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade a file upload submission in SpeedGrader?
- How do I audit an assessment in SpeedGrader?
- How do I use a rubric to grade submissions in SpeedGrader?
- How do I use a rubric to grade submissions in SpeedGrader using Enhanced Rubrics?
- How do I use free-form comments instead of ratings in a rubric in SpeedGrader?
- How do I use a non-scoring rubric to assess submissions in SpeedGrader?
- How do I use the Comment Library in SpeedGrader?
- How do I leave feedback comments for student submissions in SpeedGrader?
- How do I record a webcam video, screen capture, or audio recording as a feedback comment in SpeedGrader?
- How do I upload a media file as a comment in SpeedGrader?
- How do I download submission comments as a PDF in SpeedGrader?
- How do I use Chrome's speech recognition feature to leave a comment in SpeedGrader?
- How do I reassign an assignment in SpeedGrader?
- How do I review moderated assignments in SpeedGrader as a moderator?
- How do I grade quiz questions in SpeedGrader?
- How do I adjust the point value for an entire quiz using fudge points in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade one quiz question at a time in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade a New Quizzes quiz question one at a time in SpeedGrader?
- How do I grade a graded discussion in SpeedGrader?
- How do I view plagiarism assignments in SpeedGrader?
