Canvas Questions and Answers

Canvas Questions and Answers Announcements allow you to communicate with your students about course activities and post interesting course-related topics. Assignments are any online activity submission that is graded by the instructor. Assignments include Quizzes, graded Discussions, and online submissions (i.e. files, images, text, URLs, etc.) Breadcrumb Navigation is at the top of the Main Body of the page and helps you to how to move up and down in the course hierarchy. Calendar makes it easy for students and instructors to see all of the events and assignments going on across all of their courses Chat tool provides synchronous video, audio, and chat communication between by the entire course or any subset of the course roster. Collaborations makes it easy for students and instructors to create documents that can be edited by the entire course or any subset of the course roster. Conferences make it easy to create virtual classrooms where students and instructors can interact in real time with audio, video, desktop sharing, and presentation tools. Conversations is the messaging tool used instead of email to communicate with a course, a group, an individual student, or a group of students. Course Activity Stream shows you all of the recent activity from a single course Course Home Page is the first page that students see when they click on "Home" in their Course Navigation. The Course Home Page can be customized to display a custom Page, the Syllabus page, the Assignment page, or the Modules page. Course Import/Export Too makes it easy to pull in content from existing Canvas courses and content packages from other LMSs and textbook publishers.Course Import/Export Tool makes it easy to pull in content from existing Canvas courses and content packages from other LMSs and textbook publishers. Course Navigation is a series of links on the left side of your screen that help you get to where you want to go within your Canvas Course. Course Setup Checklist helps a new user to walk through all of the steps required to build a course and invite students. Course Statistics Course Statistics help the instructor to see which pages are being viewed most frequently Canvas courses Canvas courses begin in an unpublished state. They then move to a published state. They can also be make publicly viewable. Dashboard Dashboard consists of three main elements: Global Navigation across the top of the page, a to do list with upcoming events on the Sidebar, and the Global Activity Stream that comprises the body of the page. ePortfolios ePortfolios allow students to showcase their best work to colleagues and prospective employers. They also make it possible for students to create light-weight websites or presentations. Files: Files: Canvas provides a file repository for each user, group, and course. Files can be public or private. Global Activity Stream Global Activity Stream shows you all of the recent activity from all of your courses Global Navigation Global Navigation menu, always positioned at the top of the page, allows users to quickly navigate to any courses or groups that they are enrolled in. They can also view their grades and calendar from here Grades Grades is the name for the Canvas gradebook. Students can calculate hypothetical grades on this page. Instructors can quickly edit grades for any course or section. Groups Groups can be created for students or by students to enable efficient collaboration Help Corner Help Corner in the top right, is where you can ask for support, check your inbox, or modify your profile In-context Help In-context Help links are marked with a blue question mark. These links open up short tutorials to help users get the most out of Canvas. Math Editor Math Editor is a Latex-compatible toolbar that makes it easy for instructors to write math expressions and equations