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Announcements & Email Communication Canvas users are able to communicate with their students using both the announcement tool and the email tool. Announcements can go out to students as an email notification as well as being placed on the home page of the course. Assignments Assignments are…
Discussions & Announcements Redesign
Canvas Announcements and Discussion Redesign Instructure redesigned Canvas announcements and discussions to include new features and options. To learn how to turn on these new features, scroll down to "How to Turn on the New Features" at the bottom of this page. These modifications include:
Assigning Extra Credit in Canvas
There may be times when you’d like to offer extra credit to your students. While there is no explicit “extra credit” option available in Canvas, this How-To outlines a few options for giving extra credit points. The three options here will serve a majority of need cases. If you have a more complex…
Canvas Quizzes
This guide will walk you through the various facets of Canvas Quizzes including creating a Canvas quiz; adding questions to quizzes and groups; creating quiz banks; and moderating quizzes for AEC (Accessible Education Center) accommodations. It will also cover grading quizzes using SpeedGrader and…
Instructor Added Questions
Staring Winter 2023, instructors can add up to two of their own questions to UO Student Experience Surveys. Instructors can add and edit their own questions before the survey opens for students. The questions appear at the end of the survey for students. To access instructions for creating and…
Add Instructor Image to Student Experience Survey
Instructors can add a small photo to be displayed alongside the links to their student experience surveys. If uploaded, the photo will be displayed to students on their landing page, making it easier to identify which surveys are for which instructors. This is especially helpful for courses with…
Schedule When a Canvas Page will be Published
Canvas allows you to create a Page and then schedule when you'd like to publish it. This feature gives you the flexibility to create Pages in advance that then will be published automatically on the date you select. Students will only see the Page (even when it's included in a published Module)…
Setting up a Shared Document in OneDrive to be Shared in Canvas
Want to give your students a shared document to collaborate on? Use OneDrive to create your document and share it with your students in Canvas.
Canvas Academic & Community Instances
Wondering what the difference is between the Academic instance of Canvas and the Community instance? This How-To will walk you through using either instance of Canvas at the University of Oregon.
Canvas Dashboard: Adding and Removing Favorite Courses
The Canvas Dashboard can display your favorite courses. If you can't view your courses on your Canvas Dashboard, you may need to favorite the course in your Courses list. If you are seeing old courses on your Dashboard, you’ll need to unfavorite them.