by Thomas Keith | Sep 10, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
Canvas allows instructors to schedule blocks of time for office hours within your Canvas Calendar. When you create an Appointment Group (Canvas’ term for a block of time designated on the Calendar for appointments), your students can then sign up through your...
by Thomas Keith | Aug 28, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
Note: This post was updated May 1, 2019, to reflect changes in the New Gradebook. Canvas’ New Gradebook is now available for instructors to enable on a course-by-course basis. You can enable the New Gradebook for a course you are teaching by going to...
by Thomas Keith | Aug 24, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
Constructing a new course site and organizing your course materials can be a time-consuming process — but it doesn’t have to be. Canvas offers tools that can streamline the process, cutting down substantially on the time and effort needed to set up your...
by Cecilia Lo | Aug 20, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
Canvas provides a fully functional gradebook that can help both instructors and students to keep track of their progress in a course. Once you figure out its few quirks, you will be able to manage grades with ease. I. Some Terminology: Assignment Groups vs....
by Mohammad Ahmed | Aug 6, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
“How do I get rid of old courses and see new courses?” As new quarters begin, we often want to clean up our Canvas sites and move old courses. Obviously we don’t want to scroll through pages and pages of old courses just to find one course. Fortunately, Canvas has an...
by Cheryl Walker | Jul 23, 2018 | Canvas, Canvas Features/Functions, How-tos
Section-specific announcements are now available in Canvas! Instructors can now select whether to send announcements to all sections, a single section, or multiple sections. By default, the announcement will be sent to all sections of your course. However, to select...
