Instructor Guides
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Start of the Semester
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Getting Started with Canvas
- Quick Start Guide for Instructors
- Posting Your Syllabus in Canvas
- Setting Your Favorite Courses to Display in the Canvas Dashboard
- Viewing What Students See in Your Course
- Instructor Notification Recommendations
- Canvas @ Yale Course Roles and Permissions
- Global Navigation (Vendor Guides)
- Course Navigation (Vendor Guides)
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Additional Starting Resources
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Course Administration Settings
- Publishing and Unpublishing Your Course
- Changing Your Course Name and Course Number in Canvas
- Term Dates Vs. Course Dates & Concluding / Resetting Courses
- Changing Course Participation Dates in Your Canvas Course
- Changing Your Course Visibility
- Understanding Canvas @ Yale Umbrella Sites
- Merging Canvas Course Sections into One Course Site (Section-Merge Umbrella Site)
- Requesting a Canvas Sandbox
- Requesting Non-Academic Canvas Courses (Project Sites)
- Settings (Vendor Guides)
- Courses and Sections (Vendor Guide)
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User Management
- Canvas @ Yale Course Roles and Permissions
- Adding / Removing Users in Your Course
- Unlocking Courses in Past Terms to Add Users
- Requesting Non-Yale User (Guest) Accounts for Canvas
- Editing User Roles in Your Course
- People Tool versus Photo Roster
- Photo Roster: Overview
- Photo Roster Interface Overview
- Identifying Discussion Sections in Your Canvas Course
- Creating Manually Created Course Sections
- Restricting Teaching Fellow’s Access to Specific Sections
- Activating the Attendance Tool
- People (Vendor Guides)
- Roll Call / Attendance (Vendor Guides)
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Communication & Notifications
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Managing Course Materials
- Copying Content from One Canvas Course Into Another Canvas Course
- Tips on Importing Course Content
- Organizing Your Canvas Course
- Organizing Your Course Navigation
- Creating a Custom Link in Your Course Navigation Using the Redirect Tool
- Posting Your Syllabus in Canvas
- Using Course Reserves in a Canvas Course
- Creating Modules
- Download Course to View Offline
- Sharing LibGuides in a Canvas Course
- Restoring Deleted Items in Canvas
- Using the Rich Content Editor
- Linking to a Specific Canvas Activity or Canvas Tool in Canvas Content
- Embedding / Inserting an Image in Canvas Content
- Embedding / Inserting HTML Code in Canvas Content
- Embedding / Recording a Video in Canvas Content
- Inserting URL Links to External Sites in Canvas Content
- Course Import Tool (Vendor Guides)
- Rich Content Editor (Vendor Guides)
- Pages (Vendor Guides)
- Modules (Vendor Guides)
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Files Management
- Understanding Files and File Storage Quotas in Canvas
- Uploading a File to Your Course
- Creating Folders in Your Course 'Files" Area
- Deleting Files / Folders from a Course
- Creating a Zip Folder to Bulk Upload Files to Canvas
- Uploading / Linking a File in Canvas Content
- Preventing Files from being Downloaded when using Google Drive (EliApps) or Box
- Best Practices / Alternatives for Canvas Course File Storage
- Embedding Box (Cloud Storage) into a Canvas Course
- Creating a Shared Google Doc Using Canvas Collaborations
- Methods to Record, Upload, and Share Course Welcome Videos on the Media Library in Canvas
- Files (Vendor Guides)
- Collaboration (Vendor Guides)
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Assignments
- Building Assessments in Canvas
- Creating an Assignment
- Creating a Media Recording Assignment
- Creating an Ungraded, No-Submission Assignment (Reading Assignment)
- Implementing Peer Review Assessments
- Duplicating an Assignment
- Setting Lock / Availability Dates
- Due Dates versus Display Dates
- Checking a Canvas Activity in Student View without Releasing It to Students
- Assignments (Vendor Guides)
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Discussions
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Quizzes
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Providing Feedback & Grades
- Supporting and Using Feedback in Your Class
- Submitting Audio / Video Feedback to a Student
- Grading Assignments Using the SpeedGrader
- Utilizing Anonymous Grading
- Accessing the SpeedGrader from the Gradebook
- Gradebook Overview and Features
- Understanding Gradebook Views and Filters
- Using the Grade Posting Policy
- Changing Grading Schemes / Grade Letter Ranges
- Creating Weighted Assignments Groups
- Importing Grades into Gradebook
- SpeedGrader (Vendor Guides)
- Rubrics (Vendor Guides)
- Gradebook (Vendor Guides)
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Collecting Student Feedback
- Feedback & Accessibility Barriers Tool: Overview
- Enabling / Viewing the Feedback & Accessibility Barriers Tool
- Mid-Semester Feedback: Overview
- Disabling / Enabling the Mid-Semester Feedback Tool in Your Canvas Course
- Timing of Mid-Semester Feedback
- Managing Mid-Semester Feedback Survey Questions
- Viewing / Downloading Student Mid-Semester Feedback Submissions
- New Analytics (Vendor Guides)
- Analytics (Vendor Guides)
- Outcomes (Vendor Guides)
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Groups
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Calendars & Scheduling
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Frequently Asked Instructor Questions
- Why are my TA's grades not being saved in SpeedGrader? / How do I avoid over-writing my co-graders in SpeedGrader?
- Why can't I remove some students from my course?
- What is the "Hidden Files" folder in my Files area?
- How do I allow a student extra time to (re)submit an assignment submission?
- Student essay responses in my Canvas quiz / exam are missing parts of their answer. What happened and where do I find their complete essay response?
- I'm teaching a course but do not see it on my Dashboard. Where is my course?
- Students reported that an image didn't load in a quiz question. Why did this happen and how can I avoid it?
- I just posted an Announcement or Inbox message. Why didn't I get a copy in my Yale email account?
- How do I review my students' name pronunciations and pronouns?
- How do I find my student's residential college?
- Why is my Canvas course name different than past years?
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Blackboard Ally
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Ed Discussions
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Gradescope
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LabArchives
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LinkedIn Learning
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Media Library
- Classroom Lecture Capture Benefits
- Media Library (Panopto): Overview
- Creating / Uploading Media to the Media Library
- Methods to Record, Upload, and Share Course Welcome Videos on the Media Library in Canvas
- Recording Videos in Media Library using Panopto Capture
- Recording Videos in Media Library using Panopto Recorder
- Creating New Media Library Folders
- Setting Media Library Folders to Require Content be Manually Published
- Creating / Managing a Video Assignment Folder in the Media Library
- Migrating Media Library Content from One Course Folder to Another
- Moving / Copying Media Library Items / Folders
- Finding and Moving Content that was in Media Gallery (Classes*v2)
- Sharing Media Library Content
- Sharing a Media Library Folder
- Sharing Media Library Content with Specific People
- Embedding Media Library Content into Canvas Pages
- Viewing Other Media Library Folders You have Access to
- Media Library Search Features
- Viewing Media Library Item / Folder Statistics and Usage
- Adding / Editing Captions on Media Library Content
- How to Enable ASR Captioning for Folders
- Commenting on a Media Library Item
- Allowing Media Library (Panopto) Access in the iOS Canvas App
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Perusall
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PlayPosit
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Poll Everywhere
- Poll Everywhere: Overview
- Logging into Poll Everywhere
- Installing the Poll Everywhere Desktop Application
- Creating Polls in Poll Everywhere
- Configuring Your Poll in Poll Everywhere
- Adding Images and Alt-Text in Poll Everywhere
- Syncing Your Canvas Roster to Poll Everywhere
- Exporting Poll Results to Canvas Gradebook
- Inserting and Running Poll Everywhere in PowerPoint on Windows
- Inserting and Running Poll Everywhere in PowerPoint (or Keynote) on Mac
- Poll Everywhere (Vendor Guides)
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Post'Em
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Program / School Specific Canvas External Apps
- External App: Cengage WebAssign (Applicable Disciplines)
- External App: Examity (Yale Online Summer Session Programs)
- External App: ExamSoft (Yale School of Nursing)
- External App: MacMillan Learning - Achieve (Chemistry & Applicable Disciplines)
- External App: MobLab (School of Management)
- External App: WirisQuizzes (Select Courses)
- External App: WileyPLUS (ONEXYS Courses)
- External App: DawnSign (ASL)
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Qualtrics LTI
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Respondus LockDown Browser
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Turnitin
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VoiceThread
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WordPress
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Zoom
- Zoom: Overview
- Setting Up Your Zoom Account
- Logging into the Zoom Application Using Your Yale Credentials
- Logging into the Zoom App from Your Smartphone / Tablet Using Your Yale Credentials
- Linking a Personal Zoom Account Using a Yale Email Address to a Yale Zoom Account
- Enabling Zoom within a Canvas Course
- A Strategy to Organize Discussion / Lab Section Zoom Schedules
- Scheduling Zoom Meetings within Canvas
- Adding a Passcode / Waiting Room to Your Canvas Zoom Meetings
- Adding a Co-Host / Alternative Host for a Zoom Meeting
- Alternative Strategies While Teaching Through Zoom
- Displaying and Joining Zoom Meetings from Canvas
- Configuring Your Microphone / Speakers / Camera in Zoom
- Inviting Guests to Your Zoom Session
- Using Breakout Rooms in Zoom
- Zoom Cloud Recordings: Accessing / Downloading / Sharing via Media Library
- Recording Zoom to the Cloud for Proctoring
- Zoom Local Recordings: Accessing / Sharing via Media Library
- Using the Zoom / Panopto (Media Library) Integration
- Checking / Taking Attendance in Past Zoom Meetings
- Yale University Library and Zoom
- Resolving Zoom Errors (Error 2216 / Error 1001)