Getting Started
Preparing your Canvas site: A start-of-semester checklist
Preparing your Canvas site: A start-of-semester checklist Ensure that your course syllabus has been updated and posted in your site. We advise sharing your syllabus in the Syllabus tool of your Canvas site so students can find it easily. See … Continue reading
Canvas: copy course content
last updated Often you may wish to copy course content to re-use in another Canvas site. For instance, a) if you are teaching the same course again in a subsequent semester; or b) if you have set up section 01 … Continue reading
Canvas: using sections to manage large classes
About sections This page explains how to set up Sections in your Canvas course site. Sections will allow you to assign a TA to their students for grading and communications and will allow instructors to: Post Announcements to a section … Continue reading
Canvas: customize course menu
last updated [Aside: In Canvas, all users see the Global Navigation Bar at the far-left of your screen. It has a red background at Rutgers. The tools on that bar are for functions across all your Canvas sites… think meta-Canvas? … Continue reading
Canvas: add people to a Canvas site
Course sites are accessible to a certain group of people, in most cases. For a course site, one professor is given a “teacher” role and the students on the official class roster are given “student” roles. A couple of notes: … Continue reading
Canvas: make an announcement, add an attachment
An announcement is generally the best way to send a message to all your students from Canvas. When you post an announcement, it will be available in the Canvas site (from the Announcements tool) and an email notification will be … Continue reading