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Best Practices / Alternatives for Canvas Course File Storage
Updated onArticleCanvas provides 1.5 GB (1500 MB) of storage space for each Canvas course site. This limitation can make it easy to quickly reach your storage quota cap. Alternative storage options are made available by Yale to supplement your course file storage needs based on file type and size, access, and origin.
If you find that you are running out of space on your Canvas site, or have specific access needs, review the following file storage alternatives.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Course Management Files Management
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Beginning of Semester / Term Checklist
Updated onArticleBefore your class becomes available to students, there are a few administrative and technical items that you may want to check / revisit to ensure you are ready for the new semester.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Instructor Getting Started Guides Start of the Semester
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Creating Folders in Your Course 'Files" Area
Updated onArticleFolders can be created in the "Files" area of your Canvas course to help you organize the files you upload.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Course Management Files Management
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Uploading a File to Your Course
Updated onArticleBy default, you are given 1500 MB (1.5 GB) of storage space within your Canvas course, which allows you to upload files to share with your course and students.
This course storage differs from group and personal storage quotas. Please refer to our "Understanding Files and File Storage Quotas in Canvas" article for more information on each storage type.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Course Management Files Management
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Understanding Files and File Storage Quotas in Canvas
Updated onArticleBy default, you are given 1500 MB (1.5 GB) of storage space within your Canvas course, however, there are two other storage space types: Group and Personal. These file storage types have their own particular quotas, and are used in their own specific times and places.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Course Management Files Management
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Qualtrics LTI: Overview
Updated onArticleThe Qualtrics LTI is a powerful survey tool that is integrated into Yale's instance of Canvas. Qualtrics allows for faculty to create and share robust, responsive surveys to collect data and feedback from their students and other users, while the Qualtrics LTI is the bridge that connects those surveys into Canvas.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Discover Instructional Tools Feedback Tools
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Feedback & Accessibility Barriers Tool: Overview
Updated onArticleThe Feedback & Accessibility Barriers tool (or Feedback & Accessibility Barriers in the Course Navigation) in Canvas allows students to provide anonymous feedback to instructors at any time during the semester, or to report accessibility barriers with content in a course. When enabled, students can go to the tool and enter in textual feedback into an open-ended text entry field.
Although the Feedback & Accessibility Barriers tool does not allow instructors to create text prompts for students to respond to, instructors can provide questions in advance to students so they can include it in their responses.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Discover Instructional Tools Feedback Tools
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How to Enable ASR Captioning for Folders
Updated onArticleInstructors have the option to enable Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) captioning, also referred to as Automatic Machine Captions, as a captioning service for folders. When enabled for a folder, all new videos added to the folder will have ASR captions automatically added, and these captions can still be edited.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Canvas @ Yale External Applications Media Library
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Using the Grade Posting Policy
Updated onArticleThe Gradebook has a Grade Posting Policy function that allows you to predetermine when you want grades to be posted to students. By controlling when grades are posted and hidden, instructors can determine when students are notified of their grades being available.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Assessments, Feedback and Grades Providing Feedback & Grades
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Sharing Media Library Content with Specific People
Updated onArticleMedia Library content associated with a course folder is shared automatically with the users enrolled in that course. However, it is possible to share Media Library content with specific individuals directly and not with the entire student enrollment by creating a new folder in your course Media Library and editing the permissions.
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