Canvas: upload document to Syllabus tool

The easiest and most useful way to share your class syllabus with your students is to use the Canvas Syllabus tool, providing both a link to the document (for downloading and printing) and an “automatic preview” so the students can see the text on the fly. How-to video follows these written instructions.

Canvas: control student access to your Canvas course

Two important factors affect the availability to students of all Rutgers Canvas course sites. At Rutgers, all Canvas courses follow our official “term dates” for availability to students (we try to get them adjusted consistently for the earlier start dates for Law). Term dates run from the first day of classes to some time after… continue reading

Canvas: share a quiz with another instructor

If you create a Canvas quiz for your course, you might want to share it with another instructor to use in their Canvas course. The simplest way to do that is to 1) export the quiz from Canvas to your computer, then 2) email the export file to your colleague, and then 3) they can… continue reading

Canvas: upload document to Modules

There are several ways you can share documents with your students in Canvas, but this is probably the simplest, if you are using the Modules page. Be sure you have the file(s) you wish to upload on your computer (it may be stored on your hard drive, a flash drive, or a networked drive). Short… continue reading

Creating a Canvas Site

Generally speaking, there are two types of Canvas sites: course sites and sandbox sites. Course Sites Course sites are associated with a course roster and are provisioned based on the schedule of classes and REGIS data. If you are the assigned instructor for a course and do not see a corresponding Canvas site on your… continue reading

Kaltura: embed video in Canvas page

If you’re teaching with Canvas, you can embed videos from your Kaltura account into any Canvas page with the Rich Text Editor. Note: you must create and upload your videos to My Kaltura Media first. While editing the page: See more Kaltura tips.