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All instructors and staff can access the U of A’s Canvas instance at
https://canvas.ualberta.ca [https://canvas.ualberta.ca]. Users will
need to sign in with their CCIDs to access their courses. All use of
Canvas is governed by the Campus Computing Use po...
Instructors who have been approved for the Wave 1 transition or who
wish to get started early can begin exploring the Canvas content
creation processes in their SANDBOX COURSES
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/Knowledgebase/Article/View/525/53/accessin...
Instructors are now able to request their Bear Tracks credit courses
for Canvas at HTTPS://CC.CLOUD.ECLASS.UALBERTA.CA/
[https://cc.cloud.eclass.ualberta.ca/]. This process uses the same
system and is analogous to what instructors have used to create
cour...
Instructors have a couple of different options to manage the
visibility of their course and content availability to students: by
setting COURSE PARTICIPATION opening and closing times (for the entire
course), or by toggling the PUBLISH settings for module...
This article provide details on the mass migration of course content
from eClass to Canvas as a part of the U of A's LMS transition project
[https://www.ualberta.ca/en/provost/projects-initiatives/canvas/index.html].
Instructors and TAs can learn the nex...
The Canvas Dashboard allows users to view all their enrolled courses
and organize them according to their personal preference. It also
includes a TO-DO list displaying upcoming deadlines and due dates.
Students will only see their current term's courses o...
The following recordings cover the latest Canvas Learning
Opportunities delivered for Wave 2 of the U of A LMS Migration Project
[https://www.ualberta.ca/en/provost/projects-initiatives/canvas/index.html]
in December 2024:
* Workshop #1: Creating your ...
Canvas STUDIO is a media streaming service that is available as a part
of the Canvas Learning Management System. Studio is similar in
functionality to the YuJa
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/Knowledgebase/Article/View/486/50/yuja-video-platform-overv...
Smart Exam Monitor (SEM) is a 3rd-party external tool that allows
instructors to proctor online exams remotely that can now be setup and
used in Canvas. SEM can be used for remote proctoring a variety of
assessment activities in Canvas such as quizzes and...
ASSIGN2 is a third-party tool that allows students to upload paper
assessments to be graded online. Instructors can also create scannable
PDF paper submissions for in-person exams and online peer-graded
assessments.
Assign2 allows students to complete so...
Creating a course from scratch may seem daunting, so to assist with
that process, the U of A has created a template that is added by
default to all sandbox courses and can be added to credit or
co-curricular courses. Canvas constructed the template in con...
All Canvas users have a number of areas and options available to
personalize their Canvas experience to best meet their needs and
learning style. Most customization options are available under user's
ACCOUNT menu near the top left of the screen but user's...
Canvas provides a basic tool to recover inadvertently deleted content
in a course to maintain continuity in a course. This article will
outline the basics for restoring deleted items and the limitations of
this process.
This feature is not as robust as t...
ZOOM is currently available for all Faculty and Staff at the UofA. If
a Zoom account is required by a Staff or Faculty member who does not
want to access Zoom via Canvas (or eClass), please contact us at
eclass@ualberta.ca to request a manual account in Z...
Assignments in Canvas have a wider functional role than they do in
eClass: they are used to create all traditional graded student
activities
[https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/What-is-the-difference-between-a-Canvas-Assignment-and-a-Canv...
Overall the gradebook in Canvas is less complex than in eClass which
will vastly simplify grading for most users. Instructors using
advanced gradebook features and/or calculating grades with custom
formula will need to move these calculations to an extern...
This article outlines the best practices for working with videos in
Canvas and contains recommendations for when to use the main 2
centrally-supported tools, Canvas Studio and YuJa Enterprise Video.
Guides for using these tools are here: YuJa
[https://sup...
This article describes the default course settings applied to all
Canvas courses and highlights the important things for instructors to
be aware of and or change based on their needs.
CONTENTS:
* 1 Changing Course Names
* 2 Changing Course Access ...
Similar to the mechanisms in eClass, there are a couple of ways to
track student progress in Canvas courses. The basic way involves a
visual indicator, per student, of their progress through course
modules, analogous to the Completion Progress Block
[http...
This article outlines how YuJa videos can be added through the
standard Canvas rich content editor (RCE) available in most content
areas in the system.
* For instructors, common spots for adding media would include quiz
instructions and questions, dis...
This article will describe the Canvas quizzing features and guide
instructors on the best practices for creating and using them in their
courses, especially when making the transition from eClass. The
transition to Canvas quizzes is complicated because ou...
Canvas has a toggle at the top of course pages, labeled "View as
Student". This functions similarly to creating a Demostudent in your
eClass course.
To enter the student view, click the button at the top right of the
screen:
[Student view button on Canv...
If instructors identify questions that are ambiguous or have incorrect
answers _IN QUIZ ATTEMPTS THAT HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED_ it is possible
to change the correct answer in a quiz question and regrade attempts.
In NEW quizzes, the regrading method will va...
Instructors have 3 main options to share course content between their
own courses or to colleagues:
* Send To;
* Import / Export Content;
* or Canvas Commons.
This article outlines all three options and identifies the use cases
(and potential issu...
This guide outlines how instructors can add interactive elements to
videos uploaded into Canvas Studio
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/Knowledgebase/Article/View/539] --
one of the approved media streaming tools
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/Kno...
Discussions facilitate student engagement with course content. They
can be general discussions, small group discussions, or one-on-one
conversations between an instructor and student. The instructor may
grade discussions, and they may also be graded as a ...
This article provides an overview of the communication tools available
for instructors within Canvas. The Canvas Learning Opportunities
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/Knowledgebase/Article/View/532/55/canvas-learning-opportunity-recordings]
delivered...
Just like in eClass, instructors can add external LTI tools or apps
that link out to online educational tools into their Canvas courses.
This is not required for the existing institutionally-licensed tools
which are already added to Canvas and available f...
Participants in a Canvas course can be divided into groups much like
in eClass (Moodle) however there are some key differences which will
be outlined in this article. MOST NOTABLE IS THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE
TO HAVE ANONYMOUS GROUPS - IF PLACED IN GROUPS, ...
Users moving existing course content from the eClass/Moodle
environment to Canvas may be seeking ways to recreate various
hierarchical display methods for course content. Content moved
automatically between systems will come across as a series of pages
(f...
For students who require additional time or attempts in Canvas
quizzes, there are several options depending on whether they are
attempting a CLASSIC or a NEW quiz.
CONTENTS:
* 1 Moderating a New Quiz
* 2 Accommodation in a New Quiz
* 3 Moderating...
Instructors wishing to share files with students in Canvas will not
find a direct analogue to the eClass Moodle FOLDER activity. Files can
be added as links in modules but adding numerous files to a in that
way creates a long, cluttered list of files.
Th...
If you are enrolled in a Canvas course as a Teacher or a Non-Editing
Teacher, you can enroll additional users into your course. (This
capability is not available to TAs.) This would be commonly used to
add co-instructors or TAs into credit courses or to a...
In Canvas, instructors can give students partial marks for questions
that allow multiple answers or require that they select every correct
option. The possible options differ slightly when using either the NEW
QUIZ or CLASSIC QUIZ types, so this article w...
This article outlines how instructors can take student grades
completed in offline activities then recorded in a spreadsheet and
publish them into the Canvas gradebook. Once uploaded, STUDENTS CAN
ONLY VIEW THEIR OWN GRADES, and instructors have full cont...
CANVAS TEACHER is a mobile app that allows instructors to facilitate
their courses on the go, both inside and outside the classroom. This
app provides quick access to grading, communicating, and updating —
three of instructors' most frequent course facili...
Instructors with existing Yuja videos (or new ones uploaded via
sign-on at https://ualberta.yuja.com) can add Yuja videos to any
content area in Canvas just by using the Yuja button found in the
toolbar:
[Yuja button in content areas]
However, you may fi...
This article describes how content from eClass maps to content in
Canvas through the various migration pathways available as a part of
the U of A's LMS transition project
[https://www.ualberta.ca/en/provost/projects-initiatives/canvas/index.html].
This in...
In addition to the common calendaring features available with many
learning management systems, the calendar in Canvas offers a unique
variety of functionality not available in Moodle. This article will
cover the basics of the Canvas Calendar as well as h...
When extenuating circumstance cause students to miss assessments,
instructors using Canvas have a couple of options available to adjust
the grade calculations.
CONTENTS:
* 1 Excluding Grades from Calculation (Recommended)
* 2 Shifting Grade Item We...
Quiz activities on Canvas may be printed for students who require a
paper option for test taking. The recommended _New Quizzes_ on Canvas
has options for printing a blank quiz as well as one with an answer
key. Printing on _Classic Quizzes_ is limited to ...
Much like in eClass, Canvas allows instructors to upload SCORM
packages created in external content creation tools like Articulate
Rise, the main difference being that SCORM must be enabled in a course
since Canvas implements it as an external tool. Packa...
This article describes how instructors can customize the graphical
elements of course pages including the home page that is provided in
the U of A Custom Template
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/Knowledgebase/Article/View/531/55/adding-course-content-...
This article lists the steps instructors need to follow to export
their gradebook from Canvas, reformat it correctly, and then import it
into Bear Tracks. To use this process, users must be enrolled in Bear
Tracks/Campus Solutions as the instructor of rec...
Canvas NEW ANALYTICS is an interactive tool that helps instructors
better track student performance and activity within the course. Learn
which students have viewed pages and resources and participated in
assignments — and which students may need more enc...
Instructors who wish to use attendance as a class participation metric
are recommended to use the ONLINE ATTENDANCE feature in Canvas' NEW
ANALYTICS which shows which day-by-day students accesses to a course.
Alternatively, instructors may add the ATTEND...
This article describes how instructors can convert quiz questions and
question banks in their eClass courses into new quiz item banks and
quizzes in Canvas. The process leverages Canvas' built-in workflows
that are a part of Classic quizzes.
This is not ...