If you are an instructor or TA, the resources below will help you get started with Canvas and third-party tools.
Canvas Instructor Guides
Canvas Student Guides
Canvas 101- Crash course
Classic Vs New Quizzes
Academic Tech- Onboarding
Training for TAs
FERPA Training – TrainTraq Training #11012
Information Security Awareness Training – TrainTraq Training #3001
How to create assignments
How to weigh the final course grade based on assignments groups
Alternative assessments
How to add outcomes to rubrics in assignments
How to create announcements
Setting up notifications in Canvas (as Instructor)
Notifications settings for students
How to create discussion activities
Instructor guide: discussions
Your Canvas course has a storage limit of 1GB, that includes all files and information in your course.
Instructor guide: Files
How to customize your Home Page
Pages & Templates
Academic Integrity when creating an exam in LMS
How to view an exam log in Canvas
Separate due dates or Make-up tests in Canvas
How do I export quiz content from a course? (when questions are in banks)
Classic Quizzes
New Quizzes
Instructor guide: Modules
How do I duplicate a module?
How do I send a module to another instructor?
TAMU Guidance for Syllabus
BSPH and Graduate School of Public Health Syllabus (Commons)- Search
How to remove courses from your Dashboard
Customize your Dashboard and courses
Import content from Blackboard into Canvas
Canvas to Canvas- export/import (video)
Canvas to Canvas- copy from a canvas course
Canvas 101-Export/Import section
Grade submission to Howdy from Canvas
Extra credit in Grades
Curve grades
How to import grades in Canvas (csv file)
Instructor guide: Grades
Gradebook features
How to use the gradebook in Canvas
Canvas new gradebook best practices from FSU
Current 3rd Party Tools in Canvas
Mediasite videos in Canvas (video)
Enabling Mediasite for Canvas
Poll Everywhere in Canvas
Google Drive in Canvas
Proctoring with LockDown Browser in Canvas
Canvas Test Analytics
Download files from Canvas courses
Instructor guide: Outcomes
Student view