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Instructions for accessing your Canvas course through the dashboard, courses list, or to do list.

How to access the AI Detection feature in a Copyleaks report in Canvas. How to enable / disable the aI Detection feature in Copyleaks reports.

Embed Delphinium in your Canvas course homepage (Pages front page) to make it easier for students to find.

How to add an ungraded Hypothesis annotation activity in your Canvas course as a module item.

How to add and style teacher, TA, and course designer details. Information including contact name, contact information, and office hours.

This page explains how to add a TA or Designer to your course. It also explains how to add students to club courses.

How to adjust your Canvas Service Preferences, allowing CIDI to fix common issues students encounter within the course.

You can align any outcome in your account to a rubric. Rubrics are used to help students understand expectations for an assignment and how their submissions will be graded.

How to allow third-party cookies in various browsers to allow external tools to load in Canvas.

Canvas lets you decide the way you want students to submit their assignments. You specify the submission type in the Submission Type box when you create the assignment.

Atomic Search is a tool available to faculty and students to make it easier to find specific content in Canvas.

The attendance tool is available in Canvas for taking roll and tracking assigned seating. Enable it in your Canvas navigation from your settings menu.

How to automatically score missing assignments in the Canvas grade book and when it would be applicable.

When you make your content more accessible it becomes easier for everyone to use. Remember that making your content more usable is a process and that lots of help and training is available to help you.

How to set up the appointment tool in your Canvas course calendar for individuals and groups of students.

Assignment groups allow you to organize the assignment list or gradebook by the type of assignment and allow you to drop a low score among the assignments listed in the group or weight the final grade based on percentages assigned to each group.

Canvas blueprint courses are a way to sync course content across several different Canvas courses. This page contains the sections Setting Up a Blueprint Course, Tips for Using a Blueprint Course, and When to NOT use a Blueprint Course.

The Accessibility Report is available in every course and provides a quick way to get a report on how accessible your course content is and shows you easy things that you can do to improve it.

You can decide what you want students to see on the Canvas Home page. Here are a few suggestions on how to set up a Canvas home page.

With the Due Date Modifier, you can modify all of your course due dates in one place.

The Canvas app is formatted slightly differently than the version users might find online. These instructions are to help users navigate through the Canvas app found on Android and iPhone products.

The Multi-Tool helps you set up a course shell quickly and efficiently. The Multi-Tool consists of three separate tools, a template creator, a module builder, and a due date modifier.

Utilize question banks to have Canvas select quiz or exam questions in random order or to provide a random set of questions to individual students.

The process for setting up a New Quizzes quiz to be proctored in USU Testing Centers.

Overview of communication channels available in Canvas for online courses. Choose from Canvas inbox, announcements, SpeedGrader.

How to convert quiz questions to question bank items. How to combine question banks. Deleting duplicate quizzes.

How to copy all of the content from a Canvas course, including Atomic Assessments assignments and activities.

The steps you should follow if the content for your current course will be copied from another course that uses Delphinium.

An overview of Copyleaks, the university's official plagiarism detection tool. How Copyleaks works and a summary of the AI detection feature.

How to create an annotation assignment in your Canvas course using Hypothesis tool.

How to create an appealing Canvas course homepage with Design Tools Plus. How to add a theme, change course number & title, add a module list, change banner image, and add instructor information.

How to create an appealing Canvas course homepage with Design Tools. How to add a theme, change course number & title, add a module list, change banner image, and add instructor information.

How to enable Proctorio in a Canvas course, activate proctorio in a Canvas quiz, and making adjustments to a Proctorio quiz after students have taken the exam.

There is a Google workaround in Canvas where you can create a template for your students to use as an assignment.

How to create a Canvas template with Design Tools by choosing a theme; add, remove, or rearrange sections; adding icons; and changing the theme colors

How to create a page template with DesignPLUS. How to add a theme, how to add, rearrange, or remove content blocks, how to add and remove template content.

How to enable Copyleaks to create a plagiarism detection assignment in Canvas. How Copyleaks reports appear and how to interpret the results. What students see when an assignment is submitted.

You can use the Quiz tool to create and administer online quizzes and surveys. Quizzes in Canvas are assignments that you can use to challenge student understanding and assess comprehension of course material.

How to create a new quiz using the Canvas New Quizzes and a brief explanation of the differences with the Canvas Classic quizzes

The purpose of using a rubric is to focus students' attention on critical components of an assignment and to help the instructor maintain consistency when grading.

Assignments in Canvas are used to assess students with a point value, percentage, or complete status, or as a place for students to submit non-graded activities. These are sometimes known as an assignment dropbox or assignment inbox.

Canvas doesn't allow extra credit questions by default, but you can use these workaround to achieve the desired result.

You can create an online assignment that embeds a document directly from your Microsoft Office 365 (OneDrive) folder. Accepted assignment types are Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Delphinium is organized by theme and function through the use of tabs. These are the steps you can take to customize the tabs.

You can create a Canvas assignment for a video quiz that you created through My Media. You will need to do this if you would like it to be added to the gradebook.

How to create a Syllabus using DesignPLUS. How to add a theme, edit content blocks, edit icons, add a Canvas Grading Scheme, Add Institutional Policies, and Add Objectives/Outcomes.

The course syllabus is an agreement between the instructor and his or her students to establish the rules of engagement for the course and what is required of students for them to receive credit for the course.

As you begin to add your own content to your course, it’s important to keep things organized so your course is easy to update and maintain moving forward.

Customize your Canvas dashboard to easily access the courses you use most frequently.

Delphinium has an Achievement component where students can earn different badges for completing specific tasks. These badges will then be displayed in the leaderboards where all can see.

The Box Content Map can be customized to better cater to the instructors preferences by organizing the course modules into tabs. Below you will find the instructions on how to create those tabs as well as in-depth explanations which can help you as you tr...

The Box Content Map is a quick and easy visual layout that displays the entire course content at a glance. You can customize this component to make it easier for your students to navigate the course.

In the Delphinium Layout Editor, components are represented by "Component Tiles". Components are grouped into the following categories: Content, Progress, Dashboard, Game Elements, and Description.

If you are using 0-based grading, Delphinium will translate the %-based Canvas grading scheme into a point-based grading scheme.

The Grade Tracker component displays a student's current progress in earning points in the course grading scheme. Points are earned by completing course assignments.

After you choose a template that you would like to work with, Delphinium allows you to do additional customizations to the layout and interface. How to add components, remove components, and create columns.

How to post or embed a webcam recording as a discussion reply in a Canvas discussion board.

You can download a report in New Analytics that contains your class email roster, which allows you to email your students before or after the semester.

You can download a recording from the Media Gallery in a Canvas course. The first step is to make sure that the video has been enabled for downloading.

Duplicating a quiz is a good way to make modifications to an existing quiz while maintaining the original within the same course.

An explanation of settings in a Canvas course to allow students access to designated content before the start date of the semester.

Delphinium provides many components that instructors can include on their page to make their course more interactive. This is how to edit those components to best suit each instructor's preferences.

You may embed an editable Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide into your Canvas course where your students can interact with and update the item according to your instructions.

No matter where you are embedding a video, whether for a Discussion, Announcement, Page, or Assignment, the best way to embed a video in your Canvas course is through your My Media repository.

Step-by-step guide on how to embed a video recording into an announcement in your Canvas course.

To embed a video recording in a Canvas course page, follow these instructions.

Instructions for embedding an image from your computer onto a Canvas page with written steps and a video tutorial.

Enable Delphinium as a tool within your Canvas course on the navigation settings.

If you want to see a letter grade on the Grades page, or if you want to submit grades directly from Canvas to Banner you need to enable the course grading scheme.

How to extend a due date for students in your Canvas course, whether it is for a singular student or multiple students.

Canvas doesn't allow extra credit questions by default, but you can use this work around to achieve the desired result.

How to add or remove courses from Canvas dashboard and course list. Additionally, how to find previously taught courses or troubleshooting why courses aren't appearing in Courses tab.

The methods for addressing potential grading issues when using the Canvas grade book.

Flip is a video discussion platform that makes teaching and learning more personal, fun, and engaging. This page goes over how to set up Flip in Canvas and how to create a Flip assignment.

The most common questions asked and mistakes made by USU instructors when they use Canvas for the first time.

How to adjust and navigate through the major features in the Canvas grade book.

If you teach a general education course, you have likely been asked to assess whether students are meeting specific outcomes. Canvas can make the reporting of those outcomes easier. There are two ways to measure the outcomes.

Instructions to attach a rubric to an assignment for assessing general education outcomes in general education courses.

How to switch between Design Tools and Design PLUS and how to switch back. Options in Design Plus, including Edit Current Element, Add New Elements, Accessibility/Usability, User Guides/Tutorials, and More Options.

How to allow students extra time when taking quizzes or exams using the New Quizzes feature in Canvas.

The grade posting policy determines whether grades that are yet to be entered will be shown to students. The Hide Grades feature will hide grades that have already been entered, while new grades will still show.

How to analyze and review graded discussions in Canvas for all of your courses at Utah State University.

The Assignments page is arguably the most central to Canvas’s operation. In this page you'll learn of the various features that are associated with grading an assignment in Canvas.

In order to enable grading and syncing with iClicker Cloud, you'll need to follow the instructions below.

How to get your students to participate in group discussions on Canvas and how you can effectively review and grade your students.

How to grade Hypothesis annotation assignments using the Canvas SpeedGrader.

How teachers can grade quizzes that were created with the Canvas New Quizzes feature.

How to integrate and activate the Zoom tool into your Canvas course side navigation.

All USU students, faculty, and staff have access to Canvas and can log on to Canvas at canvas.usu.edu.

Walkthrough on how to simplify your Canvas course navigation to be more user-friendly and enhance the overall student experience.

CIDI has developed two templates to help you organize your course materials and provide a consistent experience for students across USU.

Hypothesis is a Canvas integrated tool that allows you to collaborate and annotate most online sources.

Getting ready for the new semester and have content from this semester you'd like to reuse? Great! You can import content from another Canvas course.

You can import specific content from one Canvas course to another, if you are a Teacher, TA, or Course Designer of both courses.

Sometimes grades are collected using another source, such as i>clicker, scantron tests, and publisher websites. Or you may just prefer to organize your grades on a spreadsheet.

Within Delphinium the Layout Coach will walk you through all of these settings. This page serves as a reference to be able to see descriptions of all settings at once.

The instructions required to make grades, comments, and annotations unavailable until grading is complete and grades are manually posted.

Why, when, and how to use question banks in your Utah State University Canvas course quizzes.

The steps to manage outcomes with the new system in the New Quizzes tool in Canvas.

Mastery Paths allows you to customize learning experiences for students based on performance. You can enable Mastery Paths to automatically assign coursework based on the score achieved for a previous assignment.

New Analytics in Canvas allows you to filter outgoing messages to send to your students that fall within a specific grade range.

How to extend time limit for students and give extra attempts on quizzes and exams through the Canvas Moderate Quiz setting.

An overview of the Canvas New Quizzes tool which provides additional question types and tools that are not available in Classic Quizzes.

Suggestions for setting Canvas notifications to determine how often you will receive alerts about new assignment submissions, submission comments, etc.

Suggestions for setting up online essay question types in Canvas exams and quizzes for enhanced security.

The easiest way to open your My Media repository is from your Canvas dashboard.

If you have used the Design Tools or Canvas formatting to prepare your syllabus in Canvas, the easiest way to print a properly formatted syllabus is from the USU Canvas Course Syllabus Tracker.

An introduction of the various options for quizzing using tools available through Canvas.

Instructions on replacing the instructor photo on your Canvas course home page using design tools.

Previously saved content can be restored if it gets accidentally deleted. This includes assignments, classic quizzes, pages, etc.

If you already taught a course once in Canvas, this page is to help you understand how you can best reuse and refine that course to have a successful time teaching your new incoming students.

How to set up a Zoom meeting within Canvas, outside of Canvas, and how to invite guest speakers.

How to post or embed a Kaltura screen recording as a discussion reply in a Canvas discussion board.

Share a Zoom link that can be accessed by all students in the class through Canvas.

The instructions below will show you how to create a self evaluation for your students based on a rubric outline that you have for your assignment.

Periscope view allows the instructor to see what a specific student will see when he logs into Delphinium.

How to switch between Design Tools and DesignPLUS. Also, how to switch back to Design Tools from DesignPLUS in Canvas.

How to sync your Canvas Calendar with either your Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar accounts.

Make accommodations to allow your student(s) to take an exam or quiz with Proctorio while the rest of your students take the exam or quiz in a testing center. Instructions to make the exam flexible in Canvas with the Moderate This Quiz feature.

TidyUP is available in your Canvas course to help you quickly identify and clean up the content in your course.

Transferring a classic Canvas quiz into the New Quizzes format to take advantage of new question types.

How to add dates to the module list on your Canvas homepage to highlight and open the most current module.

Instructions for how to update Canvas content pages using the Design Tools. Change the unit, content title, etc in the template using the side bar.

If you have previously typed dates to appear in your module titles in your homepage, you'll want to update them through the Multi Tool.

How to update the dates for the modules on the home page by using the features on design tools.

The Visual Template comes with a pre-styled homepage containing a general university image and replaceable banner text. Be sure to change the course number and title. Changing the image is optional.

How to upgrade the content designed with the legacy (Design Tools) sidebar to utilize DesignPLUS formatting.

The basics of adding a file to a Canvas course either in the Files tool or within a module.

How to convert your Canvas gradebook to a CSV file to import into Excel to calculate a custom final grade.

How to view a student's Copyleaks report through the SpeedGrader and Grading. How to review the matching sources of a plagiarism detection report using Copyleaks.

Canvas allows the option to change which identifying information an instructor sees for a student.

Tutorials for generating attendance reports, which are available through the Zoom link in Canvas or through the Zoom website. If the meeting recurrence is set for "no fixed time" you will have to pull the reports from the Zoom website.