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Canvas Communications (Email Conversations)

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New and Upcoming Changes to Canvas 3
- Media storage and Student View button changes
- Course Navigation and Gradebook icon changes
- New Rich Content Editor
Adding Apps to Canvas 1
- How do I install an external app in my course site?
Adding Non-Tufts Accounts to a Canvas Course Site 1
- How do I add a Non-Tufts account to a Canvas course site?
Canvas Assignments 3
- How do I create a Student Annotation assignment?
- How do I create an audio or video assignment?
- How do students submit an audio or video assignment?
Blueprint Courses 1
- How do I associate courses with my Blueprint course?
Canvas Course Copy 1
- How do I copy one Canvas course site to another Canvas course site?
Canvas Dashboard 2
- How do I organize my Canvas Dashboard?
- How do I Nickname my Canvas Dashboard cards?
Canvas Discussions 1
- Student - How do I embed a webcam video in a Discussion post?
Canvas Communications (Email Conversations) 6
- I'm an instructor. How do I email my class?
- I'm a student. How do I email my instructor, TA or other members of my course?
- How do Announcements and Conversations work?
- How do I download a list of my student's email addresses?
- What are the recommended notification preferences for students?
- What are the recommended notification preferences for instructors?
Canvas Course Emailer 2
- How do I email my class using the Canvas Course Emailer tool?
- How do I unhide the Canvas Course Emailer tool?
Canvas Grades 10
- How do I post (and hide) student grades?
- How do I hide the "Total" grades from students?
- How do I display a Letter Grade in the Total Grade Column?
- How do I display Total Points in the Total Grade Column?
- How do I hide student names when grading (Anonymous Grading)?
- How do I create gradebook columns from a spreadsheet import?
- How do I include student SIS IDs when I export grades?
- Student - How do I view instructor feedback on an assignment?
- Understanding Canvas Gradebook Totals and Exported Totals
- Canvas Grading Tips and Common Mistakes
Canvas Group Sets and Course Groups 4
- What are Canvas Group Sets and Course Groups?
- How Do I create Group Sets / Course Groups?
- How do I assign a graded Assignment to a Group?
- How do I assign a graded Discussion to a Group?
Canvas Home Page 1
- How do I create a Front Page and use it as the Home page for my Canvas site?
Canvas Notifications 3
- How do I set my Canvas Notification Preferences?
- What are the recommended notification preferences for instructors?
- What are the recommended notification preferences for instructors?
Canvas Profile and Settings 1
- How do I select personal pronouns?
Canvas Scheduler (Sign-up) 3
- How do I create an Appointment Group (sign-up)?
- Student: - How do I sign-up for an appointment group?
- Instructor: - How do I check student sign-ups?
Canvas Student Study Groups 2
- As a Student, How do I create a Study Group?
- Student: How do I use Google Docs to create a collaborative document in a Student Study Group?
Canvas Sections 9
- How do I create Canvas course site sections?
- How do I populate Canvas sections with student (and TA) accounts?
- How do I create an announcement for a section?
- How do I email a section?
- How do I post an Assignment for a section?
- How do I post a Discussion for a section?
- How do I post a Quiz or Survey for a section?
- How do I view the SpeedGrader and Gradebook by section?
- How do I limit participation in section to a start and end date?
Canvas Syllabus 2
- How do I make my course site Syllabus open to the public?
- How do I post a course syllabus?
Canvas Math Equation Editor (LaTex) 2
- How do I use the Canvas Math Equation Editor?
- Video Demonstration of the Canvas Math Equation Editor
Canvas Modules 4
- How do I add (link) Files, Assignments, Discussions or Quizzes to a Canvas Module?
- How do I add a Canvas Page as a module item?
- How do I embed a video from My Media in a Canvas "Page" and then create a link to the Page in a Module?
- How do I add my course site "Zoom" tool as a module item?
Canvas My Media/Media Gallery Videos 26
- What are My Media and Media Gallery?
- How do I upload a video to My Media?
- How do I record a video directly into My Media with Kaltura Capture?
- How do I edit a video uploaded or recorded with My Media?
- How do I publish a video from My Media to a course site's Media Gallery?
- How do I embed video from My Media in a Canvas text-editing window? (New)
- How do I embed video from the Course site Media Gallery in a Canvas text-editing window? (New)
- How do I add a My Media or Media Gallery video to a Canvas Module?
- How do I create a Playlist of Videos in the Media Gallery tool?
- How do I embed a Media Gallery Playlist in a Canvas text-editing window?
- How do users add Comments to a Media Gallery video?
- How do I remove commenting permissions from a Media Gallery video?
- How do I upload iPhone or Android phone videos (and images) to My Media?
- How do I download a My Media video?
- How do I allow downloading of video from the Media Gallery?
- How do I change the ownership of a My Media video?
- How do I allow other users to edit and publish a video in My Media?
- Instructors: How do I create an Assignment allowing students to submit a video from their My Media storage? (New)
- Students: How do I submit a video to an Assignment or a Discussion? (New)
- How do I copy Media Gallery Videos from one Canvas Course site to another Canvas Course site?
- Enabling third-party cookies
- How can I get captions on My Media videos?
- How can I edit captions on My Media videos?
- How can I see general and individual viewer statistics for videos in Media Gallery?
- How can I see aggregate video viewing statistics for the Media Gallery in my course?
- How do I remove a video from the Media Gallery?
Canvas Kaltura Capture 5
- What is Kaltura Capture?
- How do I install Kaltura Capture on a Mac?
- How do I install Kaltura Capture on a PC?
- How do I record with Kaltura Capture?
- How do I edit my video start and end points?
Canvas Publish / Unpublish 2
- How do I Publish (or Unpublish) my Canvas Course Site?
- Student - How do I see if one of my Canvas course sites is Published?
Canvas Peer Review 10
- How do I create a Peer Reviewed Assignment?
- How do I manage a Manual Assigned Peer Review assignment?
- How do I manage an Automatically Assigned Peer Review assignment?
- How do I manage a Group peer review assignment?
- How do I create a Peer Reviewed Graded Discussion?
- How do I manage a Manually Assigned Peer Review Discussions?
- How do I manage an Automatically Assigned Peer Review discussions?
- How do I manage a Group peer review discussions?
- Student: - How do I complete a peer review Assignment?
- Student: - How do I complete a peer review Discussion?
Canvas Rich Text Editor 4
- How do I embed a course image in a Canvas text box?
- How do I link to a file in a Canvas text box?
- How do auto-open a preview of a linked file on a Canvas text box? (New)
- How do I embed a webCam video in a Canvas text box?
Canvas Rubrics 3
- What are Canvas Rubrics?
- How do I create a Ratings Block Canvas Rubric?
- How Do I create a Free-form Comment Rubric?
Canvas Time Zones 2
- Instructor - How do I set a Canvas course site time zone?
- Student - How do I set my local time zone in my user account?
Canvas Undelete - (Restore) 1
- How do I Restore items I have deleted from my Canvas site?
Canvas Webex 4
- Canvas Webex - Set-up
- Canvas Webex - How do I create a Webex Virtual Meeting?
- Canvas Webex - How do I create Webex Office Hours?
- Running a virtual classroom in Webex - Video Tutorial
Cengage MindTap 2
- How do I add MindTap to my course site?
- How do I get support for MindTap?
Combining Canvas Course Sites (Cross-listing) 1
- How do I Combine (Cross-list) Canvas course sites?
Competency Checklist 5
- What is the Competency Checklist?
- Students - How do I navigate the Competency Checklist?
- Students - How do I complete a self-assessment?
- Students - How do I request an assessment from faculty?
- Instructors - How do I assess a student?
Copyright and Fair Use 2
- What is Tufts University policy on copyright and fair use of posted materials on Canvas?
- What is Tufts University policy on the use of social media?
Department Administrator - Delegated Access 4
- Department Administrator - Delegated Access
- How do I access Canvas course sites within my delegated access sub-account?
- How do I add users to a Canvas site witin my delegated access subaccount?
- How do I post a sub-account announcement?
Echo360 3
- What is Echo360?
- How do I add Echo360 to my course site?
- How do I embed an Echo360 video using the Canvas text editor?
End of the Semester options for Instructors 2
- End of the Semester options for Instructors
- Setting course site access for individual students
Fletcher School Final Exam: Self-Select / Timed 5
- How do I create a self-selected timed final exam (Essay Questions)?
- How do I create a self-selected timed final exam (File Upload Questions)?
- How do I review and grade a self-selected timed final exam (Essay Questions)?
- How do I review and grade a self-selected timed final exam (File Upload Questions)?
- Student: How do I take a self-selected timed (Essay Question or File Upload) final exam?
Google Docs 4
- How do I link (or embed) a Google Document in a Canvas text box?
- Instructor: How do I use Google Docs to create a collaborative document?
- Student: How do I use Google Docs to create a collaborative document in a Student Study Group?
- Student: How do I submit a Google Document to an assignment?
Google Maps 2
- How do I add the Google Maps App to my Canvas course site?
- How do I embed a Google Map in a Canvas text box?
New Quizzes 16
- Differences between Canvas Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes
- New Quizzes Introductory Videos
- How do I create a quiz using New Quizzes?
- How do I add a question to a quiz in New Quizzes
- How do I add specific question types to a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I manage quiz settings in Canvas New Quizzes?
- How do I create a Stimulus in New Quizzes?
- How do I embed an image into a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I embed video from My Media or Media Gallery into a New Quiz?
- How do I view and grade student submissions in New Quizzes?
- How do I Moderate a Quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I create Item Banks in New Quizzes?
- How do I add questions to an existing Item Bank?
- How do I add a question from an Item Bank to a New Quizzes quiz?
- How do I add multiple questions from an Item Bank to New Quizzes quiz?
- How do I migrate a Classic Canvas quiz to New Quizzes?
Office 365 7
- How do I create an Office 365 Collaboration document (Word / Excel / Powerpoint)?
- How do I link to an Office 365 document in a Canvas Module?
- How do I link to an Office 365 document in a Canvas Rich Text Editor (Announcements / Assignments / Syllabus / Discussions / Quizzes / Pages)?
- Student: How do I submit an Office 365 document to an assignment?
- How do I add the Office 365 tool to my Canvas course site tool list?
- Instructor - How do I create an Office 365 Cloud assignment?
- Student - How do I edit and submit an Office 365 Could Assignment?
Piazza 12
- What is the Piazza tool?
- How do I set up a Piazza discussion board for my site?
- How do I manage Piazza discussion board enrollments?
- How does an instructor post a question in Piazza?
- How do students respond to a question posted by the instructor?
- How do students post a question in Piazza?
- How do Instructors respond to student questions in Piazza?
- How do instructors and students post a poll?
- How do I edit my Piazza email notifications?
- How do I embed an image in a Piazza post?
- How do I deactivate a Piazza site?
- How do I un-enroll (drop) from a Piazza discussion site?
Proctor U 1
- What is Proctor U?
Redirect App - Add Canvas Tool 1
- How do I add a custom link to my course navigation?
Screen Recording 4
- How do I record my screen with Kaltura Capture?
- How do I record my screen using WebEx?
- How do I make a screen recording using QuickTime on a Mac?
- How do I edit or trim a QuickTime video on a Mac?
TidyUP 3
- What is TidyUP?
- How do I activate TidyUP?
- How do I mange my Canvas site content using TidyUP?
Tufts Library Videos 3
- How do I upload a Tufts Library MediaSpace playlist file in Canvas?
- How do I post a Tufts Library Alexander Street video link in Canvas?
- How do I post a Tufts Library Kanopy video link in Canvas?
Tufts Box 6
- Overview of Tufts Box Integration with Canvas
- Instructor: How do I link to a Tufts.Box.Com document in a Canvas text box?
- Instructor: How do I link to a Tufts.Box.Com document in a Canvas Module?
- Instructor: How do I add a link to Tufts.Box.Com to the course site navigation panel?
- Student: How do I submit a document from my Tufts.Box.Com to a Canvas Assignment?
- Student: How do I link to a document from my Tufts.Box.Com in a Canvas text box?
Tufts Library Reading Lists 10
- What are Library Reading Lists?
- How do I create a Reading List?
- How do I structure the list by weeks or topics? (new)
- How do I add library items to the reading list? (new)
- How do I add links to electronic articles? (new)
- How do I share the list with students? (new)
- How do I re-use a previous semester's list?
- Can my teaching assistant work on my list?
- Where can I find detailed training for the Reading List tool? (new)
- Students - Reading List Help (new)
Turnitin 4
- Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Service
- How do I use the Turnitin plagiarism service to check the originality of student submitted papers?
- Student: How do I submit a paper to a Canvas Assignment that uses Turnitin?
- How do I view a Turnitin Originality Report?
VoiceThread 2
- How to add VoiceThread to your Canvas course
- Using VoiceThread in Your Course on Canvas
Web Cam Videos 3
- Instructor - How do I create a webcam video in a Canvas text box?
- How do I add a webcam comment to a student's grade in the Canvas SpeedGrader?
- Student - How do I create a webcam video in a Canvas Discussion text box?
YouTube Videos 1
- How do I embed a YouTube video in a Canvas Page and link it in a Module?

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