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Gradebook Overview and Features
Updated onArticleThe Gradebook utilizes many features that are beneficial to you and your course when sorting, displaying, and posting your course grades to students. The purpose of this article is to review these features as well as the missing functions which Instructure is developing resolutions for.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Assessments, Feedback and Grades Providing Feedback & Grades
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Accessing and Managing Your Canvas Account as a Yale NetID User
Updated onArticleYale University faculty, staff, and students are all issued a NetID which is used to grant access to Yale's instance of Canvas. As NetID users in Canvas, you access and manage your Canvas account through the primary forms of support for Yale systems.
General Information Canvas @ Yale Settings Account Settings
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Students being Removed from Groups
Updated onArticleUsers enrolled in a Canvas course who have a change of enrollment (ie Guest Student to Auditor, Visitor to Student) may be removed from their groups in Canvas.
General Information Updates & Known Issues Known Issues
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Understanding the Canvas @ Yale Visitor Purge
Updated onArticleAll learners who added a course to their Canvas Worksheets in Yale Course Search are added to those courses as "Visitors." The "Visitor" learners are removed automatically from these courses at the end of the Add / Drop period. Please review the information below to learn more about the timeline of the visitor purge from Canvas, as well as specific information for instructors and students to be mindful of regarding this process.
General Information Enrollment & Permissions Canvas @ Yale Enrollment
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Understanding How the Registration Worksheet & Canvas Worksheet Interact with a Canvas Course Site
Updated onArticleThe information provided below explains how the Registration Worksheet and Canvas Worksheet used in Yale Course Search enroll a participant into a Canvas course site. Please contact the University Registrar Office or your school's registrar if you have questions about the status of your own or a participant's enrollment in a class.
General Information Canvas @ Yale Admin / Registrar Canvas @ Yale Registrar Resources
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How Academic Canvas @ Yale Course Sites are Made (Departmental Registrar Resource)
Updated onArticleOfficial academic course sites are created in Canvas automatically based on the course offerings and registration enrollments managed by the student information system (SIS), Banner.
General Information Canvas @ Yale Admin / Registrar Canvas @ Yale Registrar Resources
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Using the Email Lists Tool
Updated onArticleThe Email Lists Tool is a tool that generates an email address for Instructors and TAs to use to connect with the users in their course. The email addresses provided by this tool can only be emailed by the official Yale email addresses of the instructors and TAs listed within the course site.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Course Management Communication & Notifications
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Creating a Custom Link in Your Course Navigation Using the Redirect Tool
Updated onArticleYour course may need a link to an external resource that your students access / reference many times throughout the semester. A quick and easy way to provide them access is by adding that resource in your course's Navigation menu by using the Redirect Tool.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Course Management Managing Course Materials