Canvas For Instructors
Canvas Instructor Guide
These guides, broken down by Canvas features, provide quick how-to's with step-by-step screenshots.
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Instructor Videos
Here is a list of detailed vendor produced videos for various Canvas functionality and tools. Use your keyboard Find shortcut to search for your desired feature ( Command -F on the mac, Ctrl-F on a PC)
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ETS Curated FAQS
These pages below offer additional USF ETS insight and instruction for common Canvas setup and course management tasks.
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- Finding my Courses
- Suggested Canvas Course Settings
- Upload and Manage Files
- Configure Syllabus Page
- Copy Content Between Canvas Courses
- Share Your Course with Other Instructors
- Combine Course Sections
- Publishing Your Course (Making it available ) to your students
- How to integrate Publisher Content and other 3rd Party LTI Apps into Canvas
- Canvas Quizzes Part 1: Create a Canvas Quiz (video)
- Canvas Quizzes Part 2: Adding Questions (video)
- Canvas Quizzes Part 3: Working with Question Banks (video)
- How to Create a Quiz | Configuring Quiz Options (time and attempts, etc)
- How to Copy and Share a Canvas Quiz (video)
- Setting Quiz Time Limits, Availability and Extra Time for Individual & SDS Students
- Setting Extra Time for Individual & SDS Students (video)
- Quiz Settings to Maximize Security
- Common Canvas Quiz Security Settings and the Resulting Student View
- Online assessments with Canvas Quizzing : References (Workshop Document)