Canvas

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• Yes, here are "Kung Fu Panda" (This is created by Coast College District, so please ignore the "Open Labs".)

• And, Canvas Essential Videos:

  • Module 1 - Getting Started with Canvas
  • Module 2 - Creating & Organizing Content in Canvas
  • Module 3 - Assessment & Grading in Canvas
  • Module 4 - Communication & Engagement in Canvas

• Should you prefer to learn Canvas on your own see the Canvas instructor guide, and this self-paced Canvas video tour, and this self-paced Introduction to teaching in Canvas training.
• There are 2 minute tutorials.
• There are also Canvas training webinars offered every day that faculty have access to.
• There are Lynda.com Canvas videos. You will find them in the Portal -> Work Life -> Lynda.com Employee Online Training
• Desktop Webinars:
  • 5 Ways to Course Copy
  • Regular Effective Contact in Canvas Courses 
  • Using Groups in Canvas
  • Use 3C Media to Integrate Audio and Video into Canvas 
  • The Power of Video- Boosting Instructor Presence in Canvas with Camtasia
• Some other colleges have publicly shared their Canvas instructor training courses, including: Richland.

• Go to your course, then Settings (on the bottom left), and you’ll see the Student View button on the top right.
• See How do I view a course using a test student? for more details.

• You can access Canvas using your mobile phone's web browser, but there are also Canvas apps for Android and iPad/iPhone. The Canvas Guide to Androidand Guide to iOS has more documentation.
• Canvas Polls for Android and iPad/iPhone

• In Canvas, you cannot add new links to the navigation menu, only remove, hide, or change the order of links.* If an item is grayed out, it means you can see it, but students can’t.  See How do I reorder and hide Course Navigation links? for more information, and use the Student View (see above) to double check how your course and navigation looks to your students.  

*There is a 3rd party app that allows you to add links to the Canvas navigation menu.  See these instructions on using the Redirect Tool.

• Pages are static web pages. They are meant to hold content, like text, embedded videos, links to outside resources, etc. Modules let you sequence and organize your content and activities. A module might contain one or more pages, plus an assignment, a pdf file, a quiz, and so forth. With a module, you can set the sequence and whether or not students are required to view or complete an item in a module. Modules help students understand what they need to do in your course.
• Here are different examples of ways to organize a module.

TurnItIn

There is some documentation for using TurnItIn in the Canvas Guides, including:

• For instructors:
  • How do I create a TurnItIn assignment?
    • Go to Assignments and add as you would normally do, fill out the usual info, Assignment name, and content, points, etc.
    • Scroll down to the usual submission type.
    • Assuming you are accepting an online upload of text or a file, etc., as you scroll down you will see the new feature called, PLAGIARISM REVIEW! This ONLY shows up after you check Text Entry and or File Uploads.
    • Change the “none” choice to the Turn It In option, and a host of features with check off boxes appear!
    • Check or uncheck what you want. After completing all of that, SAVE.
    • After saving it, you will see the Rubric option just like before.
  • How do I manage TurnItIn assignments?
  • How do I change TurnItIn settings for an assignment?
• For students:
  • How do I submit a TurnItIn assignment?
  • How do I view TurnItIn results for my assignment submission?

• When editing text in Canvas, click the pi icon (π) in the rich text editor toolbar to open the math editor and insert math equations and chemistry formulas.  You can click on 'Switch View to Advanced' in the math editor to paste in LaTeX.  For more details and examples, see How do I use the Math Editor in the Rich Editor?
• Additionally, Canvas quizzes have a type of question called Formula Question that lets you enter variables and formulas that will be varied from student to student, to handle homework copying.  See How do I create a Simple Formula quiz question?  and this video presentation: Using Mathematical Formulas in Canvas Quizzes to Improve Formative Assessments.

• If you click on Quizzes in the navigation for your Canvas course, you can then click on the settings gear icon on the top right and select "Manage Question Banks" to see the test banks.  See also How do I create a question bank in a course? and Creating and Using Question Banks.
• And if you bookmark a question bank, it will be accessible in other courses.

• Click the settings gear icon next to any item to delete it.  Example: How do I delete an assignment? Note, however, that when you are on the Modules page, it says 'Remove', not 'Delete'.  That is because modules only contain links to items, not the actual items.  If you remove a page or file from a module, the page or file is still in your course, just no longer listed in that module.  To delete it, you need to go to the Pages or Files area, or to the actual item to be able to delete it.
• You can undelete and restore items that were accidentally deleted.  Add "/undelete" (no quotes) to the end of the URL to your course.  See Undeleting things in Canvas.

• You can add more than the maximum points to an assignment in the gradebook or SpeedGrader (example: 105/100).  If you use assignment group weighting, however, and you create a zero point 'bonus' assignment, make sure it is in a group with at least one other non-zero point assignment, or the bonus points will not be counted (because zero points times percentage weight equals zero).
• See How do I give extra credit in a course? for more details and more techniques for bonus points and extra credit.

• See Example Courses by Subject for some sample courses.  You can also enroll in public Canvas courses (MOOCs) on  Canvas.net or import and test out courses from the Canvas Commons repository. 
• You can also find publicly shared Canvas courses through Google search, by restricting the search to the instructure.com or canvas.net domains. Example query: "public speaking" syllabus (site.instructure.com OR site.canvas.net) .
• In the Canvas Commons you can search and find several Canvas course templates and resources, including:
• Humboldt State has a detailed 16 week course template (preview) aligned to their Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT) Best Practices: download template in Canvas Commons
• Santa Rosa Junior College has a Quickstart Course Template (preview): download template in Canvas Commons
• Oregon State University also has a Canvas Template (preview): download template in Canvas Commons