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New and Upcoming Changes to Canvas
- Spring 2024 Updates to My Media and Media Gallery
- Media storage and Student View button changes
- Course Navigation and Gradebook icon changes
- New Rich Content Editor
- Discussions and Announcements Redesign
Adding Apps to Canvas
- How do I install an external app in my course site?
Adding Non-Tufts Accounts to a Canvas Course Site
- How do I add a Non-Tufts account to a Canvas course site?
Blueprint Courses
- How do I associate courses with my Blueprint course?
Canvas Assignments
- 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?
Canvas Communications (Inbox)
- How do I send messages to students in my class?
- 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 Copy
- How do I copy content from one Canvas course site to another Canvas course site?
Canvas Dashboard
- How do I organize my Canvas Dashboard?
- How do I nickname my Canvas Dashboard cards?
Canvas Discussions
- How do I record a video and embed it in a Discussion post?
Canvas Global Announcements
- What are global announcements?
Canvas Grades
- How do I post (and hide) student grades?
- How do I hide the "Total Grade" 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
- How do I Bulk Import Grades from Canvas to SIS?
Canvas Group Sets and Course Groups
- What are Canvas Group Sets and Course Groups?
- How do I create Group Sets and 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
- How do I create a Front Page and use it as the Home page for my Canvas site?
Canvas Kaltura Capture
- 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 to Edit your Video Start and End point.
Canvas Modules
- 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
- What are My Media and Media Gallery?
- How do I upload a video to My Media in Canvas?
- 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 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 Media Gallery?
- 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?
- Students: How do I submit a video to an Assignment or a Discussion?
- 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 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?
- How do I edit a pre-existing playlist?
- How do I upload a Youtube video to My Media?
- How can I edit captions on my media videos? (New)
- How to Record Webcam Video with Express Capture
- Updated Kaltura My Media and Media Gallery Player
- How do I Add a Kaltura Video Quiz to Canvas Assignments?
- How to Create a Kaltura Video Quiz
- Spring 2024 Updates to My Media and Media Gallery
- How to Edit your Video Start and End point.
Canvas Course Site Navigation
- How do I add a custom link to my course navigation?
- How do I show hidden items in my course site navigation menu?
Canvas New Quizzes
- 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 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?
Canvas Notifications
- How do I set my Canvas Notification Preferences?
- What are the recommended notification preferences for instructors?
- What are the recommended notification preferences for students?
Canvas Peer Review
- 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 Discussion?
- 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 Profile and Settings
- How do I add pronouns to my Canvas profile?
Canvas Publish / Unpublish
- 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 Rich Text Editor
- 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?
- How do I embed a webcam video in a Canvas text box?
Canvas Rubrics
- What are Canvas Rubrics?
- How do I create a Ratings Block Canvas Rubric?
- How Do I create a Free-form Comment Rubric?
Canvas Scheduler (Sign-up)
- 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
- 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
- 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 Smart Search
- How do I search content in my course site?
Canvas Syllabus
- How do I post a course syllabus?
- How do I add my syllabus to the Syllabus Search?
- Students - How do I search for course syllabi?
Canvas Time Zones
- 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)
- How do I Restore items I have deleted from my Canvas site?
Cengage MindTap
- How do I add MindTap to my course site?
- How do I get support for MindTap?
Combining Canvas Course Sites (Cross-listing)
- How do I Combine (Cross-list) Canvas course sites?
Competency Checklist
- 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?
- Accessing Competency Check-List on Phone
Copyright and Fair Use
- 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
- 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 within my delegated access subaccount?
- How do I post a sub-account announcement?
- How do I access Canvas course sites using my accreditor access?
- How do I use account calendars?
Echo360
- 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
- End of the Semester options for Instructors
- Setting course site access for individual students
Fletcher School Final Exam: Self-Select / Timed
- 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
- 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 submit a Google Document to an assignment?
- Student: How do I use Google Docs to create a collaborative document in a Student Study Group?
Google Maps
- 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?
Office 365
- 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
- What is the Piazza tool?
- How do I set up a Piazza discussion board for my site?
- How do I set up a Piazza discussion board for my site? (LTI 1.3)
- How do I manage Piazza discussion board enrollments?
- As an instructor, how do I post a question in Piazza?
- How do students respond to a question posted by the instructor?
- As a student how do I 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 the student anonymity settings for my Piazza site?
- 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?
Progress Report Tool
- What is the Progress Report tool?
- How do I access the progress report tool to submit a report?
- How do I submit a progress report for a student?
- How do I view progress report history for a student?
Reading Lists
- What are Canvas Reading Lists?
- How do I create a Reading List?
- How do I structure the list by weeks or topics?
- How do I add items to the reading list?
- How do I add links to electronic articles?
- How do I share the list with students?
- How do I re-use a previous semester's list?
- How can I save favorite resources to use on my lists?
- Can my teaching assistant work on my list?
- Where can I get help and training for using the Reading List tool?
- Students - Reading Lists Help
Saving and Exporting Canvas Content
- What happens to my Canvas content when I leave Tufts?
Screen Recording
- How do I record my screen with Kaltura Capture?
- How do I make a screen recording using QuickTime on a Mac?
- How do I edit or trim a QuickTime video on a Mac?
SensusAccess
- How do I enable SensusAccess in my course site?
- How do I use SensusAccess to convert course content?
TidyUP
- What is TidyUP?
- How do I activate TidyUP?
- How do I mange my Canvas site content using TidyUP?
Tufts Box
- 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?
Turnitin
- Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Service
- What's changing about Turnitin?
- How do I update an assignment to use the new Turnitin CPF tool?
- How do I use the Turnitin plagiarism service to check the originality of student submitted papers?
- How do I view a Turnitin Similarity Report?
- Student: How do I submit a paper to a Canvas Assignment that uses Turnitin?
- Student: How do I review my Similarity Report?
- Why are students having difficulty submitting a late assignment to Turnitin?
VoiceThread
- How to add VoiceThread to your Canvas course
- Using VoiceThread in Your Course on Canvas
Webcam Videos
- 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
- How do I embed a YouTube video in a Canvas Page and link it in a Module?

Topics

New and Upcoming Changes to Canvas 5
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?
Blueprint Courses 1
- How do I associate courses with my Blueprint course?
Canvas Assignments 3
Canvas Communications (Inbox) 5
Canvas Course Copy 1
- How do I copy content from 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
- How do I record a video and embed it in a Discussion post?
Canvas Global Announcements 1
- What are global announcements?
Canvas Grades 11
Canvas Group Sets and Course Groups 4
Canvas Home Page 1
- How do I create a Front Page and use it as the Home page for my Canvas site?
Canvas Kaltura Capture 5
Canvas Modules 4
Canvas My Media/Media Gallery Videos 33
Canvas Course Site Navigation 2
- How do I add a custom link to my course navigation?
- How do I show hidden items in my course site navigation menu?
Canvas New Quizzes 13
Canvas Notifications 3
Canvas Peer Review 10
Canvas Profile and Settings 1
- How do I add pronouns to my Canvas profile?
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 Rich Text Editor 4
Canvas Rubrics 3
Canvas Scheduler (Sign-up) 3
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
Canvas Smart Search 1
- How do I search content in my course site?
Canvas Syllabus 3
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?
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 6
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 6
Echo360 3
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
Google Docs 4
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?
Office 365 7
Piazza 14
Progress Report Tool 4
Reading Lists 11
Saving and Exporting Canvas Content 1
- What happens to my Canvas content when I leave Tufts?
Screen Recording 3
SensusAccess 2
- How do I enable SensusAccess in my course site?
- How do I use SensusAccess to convert course content?
TidyUP 3
Tufts Box 6
Turnitin 8
VoiceThread 2
- How to add VoiceThread to your Canvas course
- Using VoiceThread in Your Course on Canvas
Webcam Videos 3
YouTube Videos 1
- How do I embed a YouTube video in a Canvas Page and link it in a Module?