Online Learning Resources: Resources for Faculty - Canvas Reference for faculty (a curated list)

Canvas Reference for Faculty (a Curated List)

This page contains a curated list of Canvas Guides to help you design and teach your course.

Canvas Interface Overview

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Logging in to Canvas

1. Go to Canvas at CSUN
2. Log in with your University ID and Password

Profile and user settings in Canvas

• Updating your profile
• Adding email addresses and mobile numbers for notifications
• Setting notification preferences

Navigation in Canvas

• Global navigation
• The dashboard
• Customizing your courses list
• Course navigation

The Course Home Page

• About the course homepage
• Setting the course homepage

Making the course visible to students

• Publishing a course

Announcements

• Posting an announcement
• Setting up an announcement to post at a future day/time

Using Discussions

Important terms:

• Discussions: The discussions function (sometimes called Discussion Boards or Discussion Forums) is an asynchronous communication tool. A course may have one or more discussions. Discussions may be organized by subject (e.g., Assignment 2 Discussion) or chronologically (e.g., Week 1 Discussion). A discussion may have a prompt provided by the instructor, to which students will write responses.
• Thread or Topic: Discussions are made up of topic threads. A thread is the initial post and the entire series of replies to that post within a discussion.
• Post: A post is a discussion entry posted to a thread or used to start a thread. Other terms used for this include discussion board message or discussion reply.

• Creating a discussion
• Reading replies
• Replying to a discussion
• Editing or deleting a discussion reply
• Creating a content page
• Uploading and managing files

Using the Assignment tool

• Creating an Assignment
• Adding or editing the details of an assignment
• Accessing SpeedGrader for assignments, quizzes and discussions
• Using SpeedGrader

Quizzes

• Creating a quiz
• Viewing student results on a quiz

Modules

• The modules index page
• Adding a module
• Adding content to a module (assignments, content pages, files)

Other Important Tasks

• Viewing the course as a student
• Viewing course enrollment
• Copying content from another Canvas course
• Using the Conversations (Inbox) Tool