Analytics (Vendor Guides)
Below are the vendor guides for Course Analytics.
For more help, please contact canvas@yale.edu.
Canvas @ Yale Help Site
Topics
- Academic Continuity - Course Support Resources 4
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Setting Up Your Course Site
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- Publishing and Unpublishing Your Course
- Copying Content from One Canvas Course Into Another Canvas Course
- Changing Your Course Name and Course Number in Canvas
- Creating a Custom Link in Your Course Navigation Using the Redirect Tool
- Posting Your Syllabus in Canvas
- Unlocking Courses in Past Terms to Add Users
- Viewing What Students See in Your Course
- Changing Course Participation Dates in Your Canvas Course
- Setting Up Student Accommodations in Canvas
- Setting Your Favorite Courses
- Restoring Deleted Items in Canvas
- Quick Start Guide for Instructors
- Organizing Your Canvas Course
- Organizing Your Course Navigation
- Understanding Courses in Past Terms
- Understanding Canvas @ Yale Umbrella Sites
- Using Course Reserves in a Canvas Course
- Requesting a Canvas Sandbox
- Identifying Discussion Sections in Your Canvas Course
- Changing Your Course Visibility
- Course Import Tool (Vendor Guides)
- Courses and Sections (Vendor Guide)
- Settings (Vendor Guides)
- Global Navigation (Vendor Guides)
- Course Navigation (Vendor Guides)
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Getting Started with Zoom
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- Resolving Zoom Errors (Error 2216 / Error 1001)
- Logging into the Zoom Application Using Your Yale Credentials
- Linking a Personal Zoom Account Using a Yale Email Address to a Yale Zoom Account
- Recording Zoom to the Cloud for Proctoring
- Adding a Passcode / Waiting Room to Your Canvas Zoom Meetings
- Setting Up Your Zoom Account
- Configuring Your Microphone / Speakers / Camera in Zoom
- Using Breakout Rooms in Zoom
- Logging into the Zoom App from Your Smartphone / Tablet Using Your Yale Credentials
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User Management
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- Adding / Removing Users in Your Course
- Editing User Roles in Your Course
- Photo Roster: Overview
- Creating Manually Created Course Sections
- Course Roles and Permissions
- Creating Groups in Your Course
- People Tool versus Photo Roster
- Restricting Teaching Fellow’s Access to Specific Sections
- Accessing Group Sites
- Activating the Attendance Tool
- People (Vendor Guides)
- Roll Call / Attendance (Vendor Guides)
- Groups (Vendor Guides)
- Profile and User Settings (Vendor Guides)
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Assignments
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- Creating an Assignment
- Creating a Discussion Board
- Grading Assignments Using the SpeedGrader
- Duplicating an Assignment
- Building Assessments in Canvas
- Setting Lock / Availability Dates
- Creating a Media Recording Assignment
- Introducing New Quizzes
- Viewing a Turnitin Report (Instructor)
- Turnitin Assignment Settings Options
- Creating an Assignment with Turnitin
- Due Dates versus Display Dates
- Checking a Canvas Activity in Student View without Releasing It to Students
- Creating Weighted Assignments Groups
- Creating an Ungraded, No-Submission Assignment (Reading Assignment)
- Assignments (Vendor Guides)
- Quizzes (Vendor Guides)
- New Quizzes (Vendor Guides)
- Discussions (Vendor Guides)
- Rubrics (Vendor Guides)
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Grades
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- Submitting Audio / Video Feedback to a Student
- Utilizing Anonymous Grading
- Grading Assignments Using the SpeedGrader
- Understanding Gradebook Views and Filters
- Using the Grade Posting Policy
- Importing Grades into Gradebook
- Gradebook Overview and Features
- Changing Grading Schemes / Grade Letter Ranges
- Accessing the SpeedGrader from the Gradebook
- Gradebook (Vendor Guides)
- SpeedGrader (Vendor Guides)
- Pages 1
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Files Management
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- Understanding Files and File Storage Quotas in Canvas
- Uploading a File to Your Course
- Preventing Files from being Downloaded when using Google Drive (EliApps) or Box
- Embedding Box (Cloud Storage) into a Canvas Course
- Deleting Files / Folders from a Course
- Using the Rich Content Editor
- Creating Folders in Your Course 'Files" Area
- Recording and sharing videos to the Media Library in Canvas
- Creating a Zip Folder to Bulk Upload Files to Canvas
- Files (Vendor Guides)
- Collaboration (Vendor Guides)
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Media Library
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- Introduction to the Media Library Tool
- Classroom Lecture Capture Benefits
- Creating / Uploading Media to the Media Library
- How do I create a video assignment?
- How can I share a video?
- How can I share a folder?
- How can I see other folders I have access to?
- What are the search features?
- How do I move my media?
- How can I copy/move multiple items to another folder?
- How instructors and students can comment in video?
- How do I record my own videos in Media Library using Panopto Capture?
- How can I see viewing habits?
- How do I record my own videos using Panopto Recorder?
- How do I migrate Media Library course content from one library to another?
- How do I find and move content that was in Media Gallery?
- How do I add and edit captions?
- Recording and sharing videos to the Media Library in Canvas
- Bulk Copy Course Videos
- How do I set my course folder to require manually publishing content?
- How do I allow Panopto video access in the iOS Canvas App?
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Poll Everywhere
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- Logging in to Poll Everywhere
- Installing the Poll Everywhere desktop application
- Creating Polls in Poll Everywhere
- Customize your Poll
- Inserting and Running Polls in PowerPoint on Windows
- Inserting and Running Polls in PowerPoint or Keynote on Mac
- Importing a Course Roster
- Exporting Poll Results to Canvas Gradebook
- Additional Resources
- Enabling and Adding Alt-text to Images in Poll Everywhere
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Zoom in Canvas
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- Zoom Cloud Recordings: Accessing / Downloading / Sharing via Media Library
- Scheduling Zoom Meetings within Canvas
- Adding a Co-Host / Alternative Host for a Zoom Meeting
- Enabling Zoom within a Canvas Course
- Zoom Local Recordings: Accessing / Sharing via Media Library
- Inviting Guests to Your Zoom Session
- Using the Zoom / Panopto (Media Library) Integration
- Zoom and Zoom HIPAA in Canvas
- Displaying and Joining Zoom Meetings from Canvas
- A Strategy to Organize Discussion / Lab Section Zoom Schedules
- Making the most of teaching through Zoom
- Checking / Taking Attendance in Past Zoom Meetings
- Yale University Library and Zoom
- Modules 3
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Communication
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- Creating Office Hour Appointment Slots in the Calendar
- Using the Email Lists Tool
- Creating and Managing Appointment Slots in the Sign-Up Tool
- Editing / Deleting a Calendar Event
- Creating an Announcement
- Receiving Announcements and Inbox Messages Created by You
- Tools for Communicating with Your Students
- Announcements (Vendor Guides)
- Calendar (Vendor Guides)
- Inbox (Vendor Guides)
- Chat (Vendor Guides)
- Course Analytics and Feedback 5
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Best Practices, Training, and Resources
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- Canvas How-To Articles (Vendor Guides)
- Canvas Accessibility (Vendor Guides)
- Beginning of Term Checklist
- Quick Start Guide for Instructors
- Organizing Your Canvas Course
- Setting Up Your Syllabus
- Tips on Importing Course Content
- Instructor Notification Recommendations
- Best Practices for File Storage
- Implementing Online Discussions
- Strategies for Delivering Exams in Canvas
- Implementing Peer Review Assessments
- General Accessibility Guidelines
- Training Opportunities
- Supported Browsers
- Canvas @ Yale Flyers & Brochures
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External Apps to use with Canvas @ Yale
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- External Application Overview
- Overview of ALLY in Canvas
- External App: Cengage Learning
- External App: Ed Discussions
- External Apps: Enabling Ed Discussion in Your Canvas Course
- External Apps: Ed Discussions - Set Up for Your Course
- External Apps: Creating and Managing Ed Discussion Threads
- External App: Ed Discussion Polls
- External App: Examity
- External App: ExamSoft
- External App: Gradescope
- External App: Gradescope - Creating the Canvas Assignment
- External App: Hypothesis
- External App: LabArchives
- External App: Labster
- External App: LibGuides
- External App: LinkedIn Learning
- External App: MobLab
- External App: Moodle + WIRIS
- External App: Perusall
- External App: Perusall - Integrating with Canvas
- Perusall
- Copying a Perusall Course to a New Course
- External App: PlayPosit
- External App: Poll Everywhere - Getting Started (Instructor)
- External App: Poll Everywhere - How do I import a course roster
- External App: Post'Em
- External App: Qualtrics LTI
- Using Embedded Data in the Qualtrics LTI
- External App: Respondus LockDown Browser
- External App: Turnitin
- Creating an Assignment with Turnitin
- Turnitin Assignment Settings Options
- Viewing a Turnitin Report (Instructor)
- External App: VoiceThread
- External App: VoiceThread Assignment Builder
- External App: WileyPLUS
- External App: WordPress in Canvas
- External App: WordPress in Canvas - Removing Course Copy Links to past blogs
- External App: Zoom
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FAQ
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- Where are my courses? I'm teaching a course but I do not see it on my Dashboard page.
- I just posted an Announcement - why didn't I get a copy in my Yale email account?
- I just sent an Inbox message - why didn't I get a copy in my Yale email?
- How do I find my student's residential college?
- What is the "Hidden Files" folder in my Files area?
- Why is my Canvas course name different than past years?
- Why are my TAs grades not being saved in SpeedGrader? / How do I avoid over-writing my co-graders in SpeedGrader?
- How do I review my students name pronunciations or pronouns?
- Why can't I remove some students from my course?
- How do I Allow a Student Extra Time to (Re)submit an Assignment Submission?
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Instructional Tools
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- Canvas Announcements
- Canvas Anonymous Feedback Tool: Overview
- Canvas Assignment Tool
- Canvas Collaborations
- Canvas Conferences
- Canvas Course Settings
- Canvas Discussions
- Canvas Groups
- Canvas Inbox Tool
- Canvas Modules
- Canvas Pages
- Canvas Quizzes
- Canvas Syllabus
- Ed Discussion
- Gradescope
- Hypothesis
- LinkedIn Learning
- Media Library (Panopto)
- Mid-Semester Feedback: Overview
- Perusall
- Photo Roster
- PlayPosit
- Poll Everywhere
- Respondus LockDown Browser
- Turnitin
- VoiceThread
- WordPress for Canvas
- Zoom
- Assessment Finder Tool