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Canvas - Canvas Basics

This webpage should have links to subpages related to basic tutorials for Canvas

Student's Guide to Canvas

Student's Guide to Canvas

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Student's Guide to Canvas

Canvas Basics Guide

Getting Started with Canvas

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Video on Getting Started

Links to Canvas (& Canvas Status)

CLICK HERE: ➡️ https://canvas.drexel.edu ​

Publishing Your Canvas Course Section
Changing Course Entry Point (Home)
Student Access to Canvas (They Must Accept Invite in Email or Notice)

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Student Access to Canvas

Syllabus

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Syllabus

Exporting from BB Learn and Importing to Canvas
Copying Selected Content of Course Information

*Note: You need to talk to Michael Galloway, SCIS Assistant Director of Platform and Technology Support, BEFORE you handle copying material between Canvas and Bb Learn or between Canvas sections.*

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Copying Selected Content of Course Information

Copying Canvas Section to a Canvas Section

*Note: You need to talk to Michael Galloway, SCIS Assistant Director of Platform and Technology Support, BEFORE you handle copying material between Canvas and Bb Learn or between Canvas sections.*

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Copying Canvas section to a Canvas Section

Adjusting All Dates in Course after Couse Copy

*Note: You need to talk to Michael Galloway, SCIS Assistant Director of Platform and Technology Support, BEFORE you handle copying material between Canvas and Bb Learn or between Canvas sections.*

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Canvas - Adjusting All Dates in Course after Couse Copy

Less Basic Important Stuff

Incompletes

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Incompletes in Canvas

Groups

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Groups

Discussion Boards
Embedding or Embedded Videos (Kaltura)

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Embedding Video (Kaltura)

Powerpoints
Gradescope and Canvas

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Gradescope Set-up and Canvas

Echo360 Tips

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Echo360 Tips

Assignments, Modules & Quizzes/Tests

Modules (How to)

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Modules (How to)

Modules Full Guide

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Modules Full Guide

Assignments Basics

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Assignments

Group Assignments

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Group Assignments

Quizzes/Tests/Exams

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Quizzes/Tests/Exams

Export 1 or Select Quizzes/Tests/Exams from Bb Learn to Canvas

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Exporting from Bb Learn

Question Pools to Question Banks
Accommodations and Exceptions on​ Assignments

Navigation

No Left-Hand Navigation? No Settings in Left-Hand Navigation?
Navigation (Left-Hand Link) Changes

Course Tools

TurnitIn
Attendance Tool (Plus Drexel One Photo/Class List)
Course Summary (on Syllabus page)
Course Calendar: Check it! (STUDENTS WILL)​

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Course Calendar: Check it!

Pages in Canvas

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Pages in Canvas

Grading

Basic Grading

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Basic Grading

More on Grading

CLICK HERE: ➡️ More on Grading

Weighted Grades, Assignment Groups, & Ignore Highest/Lowest Scores
Extra Credit

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Extra Credit

Submitting Grades

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Submitting Grades

Ungraded Surveys

Canvas Notifications/Emails

Course Notifications

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Course Notifications

Email Students from Canvas (& Why You Don't Get Emails)

See Contacting Students: Announcements, Inbox, Emails, & Why Not Getting Emails section below ️️⬇️⬇️⬇️ .

Contacting Students: Announcements, Inbox, Emails & Why Not Getting Emails
Inbox Canvas (& Why You Don't Get Emails)

See Contacting Students: Announcements, Inbox, Emails & Why Not Getting Emails section above ⬆⬆⬆ .

Other Important Instructor Things

Resetting Canvas Section v2 (WIPE A COURSE)

Note: There are NO resets after doing this!!

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Resetting Canvas Section v2

Viewing Permissions

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Editing View Permissions

Prerequisites & Requirements
Rich Content Editor (RCE) (a.k.a. WYSIWYG, a.a.k.a. the text-editor box tool bar)
Uploading Large Files in Canvas

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Large Files in Canvas

Respondus in Canvas

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Respondus in Canvas

Course Reserves

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Course Reserves

Canvas Status (is it up or down?)
Undelete Deleted Items

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Undelete Deleted Items

Instructor's Student View

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Instructor's Student View

Customize your Canvas dashboard

CLICK HERE: ➡️ Your Own Page In Canvas

Notebook in Canvas
Canvas - Extending Course Start and End Dates

Still stuck?

The CCI Commons help desk can walk you through it.

Mon–Fri
8am–9:30pm
Sat
9am–6pm
Sun
12pm–5pm

Need help?

The CCI Commons help desk can walk you through it.

Mon–Fri
8am–9:30pm
Sat
9am–6pm
Sun
12pm–5pm