 Canvas

Course instructors can add individualized due dates to any Canvas assignment (including quizzes and graded discussions) to give specific students an extended deadline for submitting their work. These due dates are added by editing the "Assign To" settings of an assignment and adding an additional box of student-specific due dates and availability dates underneath the dates that are assigned to "Everyone."

This article is a collection of technical guides intended to help students use assignments in a Canvas course.

The Canvas Calendar can be used to help instructors and students keep track of events, assignment due dates, and to-do items across all of their courses. This article is a collection of technical guides intended to help instructors use the Canvas Calendar.

Students can use the Canvas Calendar to view scheduled events and assignment due dates across all their courses. This article is a collection of technical guides intended to help students use the Canvas Calendar.

This document details instructions on the top five items that users will need help with in Canvas as well as information on how to contact the 24-hour Canvas support service.

This document details how to confirm the email address on your Canvas account. You may need to confirm your email address to receive notifications and course invitations from Canvas.

Canvas support is available to UWGB students and faculty 24 hours a day! Access Canvas support options by clicking the Help button in the Global Navigation Menu located along the left edge of any page in Canvas. The Help menu contains options for contacting Canvas support via live chat, phone, and email.

A Canvas course's Settings page includes options for setting course start and end dates to control when students can access a course after it is published. This page explains the effects of these settings and an instructor's available options for controlling access to your Canvas course. A basic FAQ is followed by a deeper explanation of the settings that control Canvas course access.

This document outlines several reasons for "missing" Canvas courses. Please also read this document if you recently dropped a course but are still enrolled in Canvas.

This document can show instructors how to create a sandbox course in Canvas. A Canvas sandbox course, previously known as a "master" course, is a place for instructors to create, test, and develop course content outside of an active instructional course. Sandbox courses cannot contain Students, but content from a Sandbox course can be easily imported into an instructional course.

Canvas course instructors can create assignments to track and facilitate graded activities in their course. Each assignment in a Canvas course will appear as column in the course gradebook. Assignments support multiple submission types, including online submissions, on paper submissions, external tool submissions, and no submission. Graded quizzes and graded discussions are also considered assignments and are listed in the assignments index page. Assignments can be organized into assignment grou

Canvas Discussions allow instructors and students to interact in online message board-like environment. Instructors can view and create Discussions by clicking the Discussions link in the course navigation menu to open the course's Discussions Index page. Discussions can be ungraded or graded and can be added to modules on the course home page. This article is a collection of useful Canvas guide resources on using Discussions in your Canvas course.

This document details how to remove a user from a Canvas course.

This article is a collection of technical guides intended to help students use discussions in a Canvas course.

This document details instructions for enabling third-party cookies in Chrome and other internet browsers in order to resolve errors seen in Canvas while trying to view Kaltura My Media videos or another external tool integration.

This article is a collection of technical guides intended to help instructors build, manage, and share an ePortfolio in Canvas. You must be enrolled in a Canvas course to create an ePortfolio.

This article is a collection of technical guides intended to help students build, manage, and share an ePortfolio in Canvas. Any student enrolled in a Canvas course can create an ePortfolio.

Students who are not able to complete a course before its normal end date are sometimes granted "Student Incomplete" status. Instructors in the Universities of Wisconsin Digital Learning Environment can use the "Extend Student Access" tool to directly grant those students longer access to their Canvas course sites.

This article is a collection of technical guides intended to help instructors set up and use the gradebook in a Canvas course.

This article is a collection of technical guides intended to help students view their grades and feedback from their instructor in a Canvas course.

This article is a collection of technical guides intended to help students use groups in a Canvas course.

Canvas supports the functionality to merge sections from two separate Canvas courses into a single Canvas course; however, there are student privacy concerns related to this practice which require the instructor to take special precautions before combining sections. This guide outlines requirements and best practices for combining Canvas courses.

This document details the steps required for UW-Green Bay Students, Faculty, and Staff to sign into Canvas at UW-Green Bay.

Canvas course instructors can use the Inbox tool to send messages to individual students, groups, or entire classes. Students may also send Inbox messages to their instructor or classmates. The Inbox tool works similarly to email except that messages, which Canvas refers to as "conversations", reside in Canvas instead of Outlook. The Inbox is accessed by clicking the Inbox button in the Global Navigation menu along the left side of any Canvas page.

Students can use the Canvas Inbox tool to send messages to their instructor or classmates. The Inbox tool works similarly to email except that messages, which Canvas refers to as "conversations", reside in Canvas instead of Outlook. The Inbox is accessed by clicking the Inbox button in the Global Navigation menu along the left side of any Canvas page. This article is a collection of technical resources intended to help students use the Canvas Inbox.

This article is a guide for instructors on how to use modules in Canvas.

This article is a collection of technical guides intended to help instructors create New Quizzes in Canvas.

This article is a collection of technical guides intended to help instructors use HTML Pages in a Canvas course.

This article is a collection of technical guides intended to help instructors create and use Quizzes in Canvas.

This document details the procedure for removing a Canvas course from your Dashboard.

This guide details three methods for safely sharing Canvas course content with another instructor.

UW-Green Bay instructors, students, and staff that have a Canvas account can create and manage Canvas ePortfolios. Those who create Canvas ePortfolios can share their public or private ePortfolio for others to view. This guide provides you with instructions on the different ways one can share a public and private Canvas ePortfolio.

This document details how to sign in to the Office 365 integration in Canvas.

SpeedGrader is the primary tool used for grading in Canvas. SpeedGrader allows instructors to view student work, enter grades, and leave feedback all within a single interface. This article provides a collection of technical guides intended to help instructors use SpeedGrader in Canvas.

This document describes how new Canvas user accounts for UW-Green Bay students, staff, and faculty get created.

This document details the three main methods for enrolling users as Students in a Canvas course in the Continuing Education (CE) instance of Canvas and provides advice for when each method should be used.

This document describes how to enroll in a Canvas course by using a Canvas Catalog self-enrollment link.

The process for joining a course with a Canvas Catalog Self-Enrollment Link is different for users who are taking a UW System institution Canvas course for the first time and users who already have a Canvas account from taking another course or from being a UWGB (or other UW System university) student or employee. Please reference the steps which pertain to your status:

Community members can take Canvas courses offered in the Continuing Education instance of Canvas at UWGB by signing up for a UW Continuing Education Student Canvas account. These community member Canvas accounts are not tied to a UWGB network ID and reside entirely within Canvas. This document explains how these users log in to Canvas and how they can reset a forgotten password.

This article discusses how students can insert images and other files into replies in Canvas Discussions using the Rich Content Editor.

This article provides step-by-step instructions for adding a page to a module in a Canvas course. Pages in Canvas are an effective tool for conveying information and sharing resources with students. Adding pages to modules helps to present that information within the context of a week or unit of your course.

This article contains a description of the items (links) available in the course navigation menu of a UW-Green Bay Canvas course. The course navigation menu is a list of links that appears along the left side of most pages in a Canvas course. It is found to the right of the global navigation menu.

Canvas Commons is a repository of shared Canvas course content from which instructors can import resources into their own courses. A resource on Commons can be an individual content item (pages, assignments, quizzes, etc.), a whole module, or even an entire course. This document details the steps UW-Green Bay instructors should follow to import a resource from Canvas Commons into their Canvas course.

Instructors in UW-Green Bay's Canvas environment cannot enable the Files link in their Canvas course navigation menus. This is an intended consequence of UW System's enforced Canvas setup options.

This document details how instructors can send their final grade letter values from Canvas to SIS.

Some instructors choose to make use of the digital resources provided by textbook publishers as external application integrations for Canvas. Generally, these come at some additional cost to students but offer them the ability to practice formative tasks and access learning materials online.

This page includes the steps for uploading scores from ScanTron results spreadsheet to an assignment in Canvas.

Instructors can upload documents and other files to a Canvas course and share a file with students by inserting a hyperlink to the file in a page or by adding the file to a module as a module item. This article is a collection of useful Canvas guide resources on using files in your Canvas course.

This document details how to navigate and use the course Media Gallery feature in Canvas.

The "Redirect Tool" in Canvas allows you to add a link as an item to your course navigation.

This document details a known issue in Canvas encountered when a student attempts to use the "Office 365" submission option to submit to an online file upload assignment that is configured to restrict submissions to specified file types.

Canvas Badges (formerly Badgr) is a platform for administering and managing digital badges that integrates with Canvas. Some offices and departments may use Canvas Badges to track and award engagement in professional development activities, and some instructors may use badges in their courses to track student progress. This guide will help badge recipients set up a Canvas Badges account so they can view and share their digital badges.

This article describes how UW-Green Bay instructors can view the response rates for their course evaluation surveys.

This document details the steps instructors can take to access course evaluation reports in the UWGB Evals system. Follow this procedure to view individual course evaluation reports from terms from Spring 2023 to the present.

This article describes how program chairs can add a special attribute to a section while scheduling it in CLSS that will prevent the course evaluation system from sending the standard UWGB Student Evaluation of Instruction form to the students in that section.

This article describes how UW-Green Bay students can access and fill out a course evaluation survey.

This document details how to request the Honorlock Canvas integration and use it for proctoring online exams, including how to notify students, set up a practice quiz, and get support.

This document details how to take an exam that is proctored with Honorlock, including minimum system requirements and how to get support.

This document details how to add hotspots to a video in your Kaltura My Media library. Hotspots are boxes that appear over part of your video during playback at a designated time. Hotspots can contain text and be set up as selectable links which can direct the viewer to a different part of the video or another website.

This document details how to create and edit video clips in the Video Editor tool of the Kaltura app through Canvas.

This article details the procedure for creating an audio file from a video in your My Media library. Kaltura does not have a built-in method for creating an audio-only version of a video, but it is possible to download the video file from your My Media library and extract the audio using a free program like VLC Media Player (PC or Mac) or QuickTime (Mac only). The resulting audio file can then be uploaded to My Media as a separate audio-only media entry or distributed using another service.

This document details how to embed Kaltura (My Media) videos in Canvas pages, assignments, discussions, quizzes, and announcements with the Rich Content Editor.

UW System Digital Learning Environment (DLE) users can now access their Kaltura media through the Kaltura MediaSpace Go app for mobile.

Kaltura MediaSpace is the video portal for University of Wisconsin System institutions participating in the Digital Learning Environment (DLE). Instructors, students, and staff can use it to easily upload, store, stream, and share (or restrict) videos. Many of these video features are also available through Kaltura's Canvas integration, but Mediaspace allows users to manage or publish their media outside of Canvas.

This document details an overview of how to use the Kaltura My Media video tools within Canvas to upload, create, and embed videos.

Kaltura (My Media) is the recommended service for uploading and sharing media (audio and video) in Canvas. This document details methods for uploading video that was recorded on an iPhone or Android phone to your My Media library so it can be shared in a Canvas page, discussion post, or assignment submission.

This guide documents the steps that UW-Green Bay instructors, students, and staff can use to create recordings with the Kaltura Capture app and upload them to My Media. Recordings can include any combination of screen recording, webcam video, and audio—including all three at once.

This document describes how to use the controls on the Kaltura video player to adjust the playback experience.

Instructors, students, and staff can create and upload videos to the Kaltura My Media service, which can be accessed within Canvas. Users may wish to download a local copy of their own recording for offline viewing or archival purposes. This guide documents the procedure for downloading a video from your My Media library in Canvas.

Kaltura is the video portal for University of Wisconsin System institutions. Instructors, students, and staff can use it to easily upload, store, stream, and share (or restrict) videos in Canvas.

This document goes over the basics of Kaltura Video Quizzes, how to create one, and how to make a Canvas assignment video quiz.

This document details how to get the embed code for a video (to share on a web page, for example)

This guide details the steps for updating an embedded Kaltura My Media video in Canvas to use the newer "v7" video player.

This guide provides instructions for students on how to use the Kaltura Capture app on a personal computer to make recordings that include screen capture and/or webcam video that can be uploaded to the My Media service and shared in Canvas.

This document details the steps instructors should follow to import a Kognito assignment template into their Canvas course.

UW-Green Bay instructors can use PlayPosit to create interactive videos, called "bulbs", and assign those bulbs to students in their Canvas courses. This guide details the procedure for adding a PlayPosit bulb to a Canvas course as a graded assignment.

UW-Green Bay instructors can use PlayPosit to create interactive videos, called "bulbs", and assign those bulbs to students in their Canvas courses. UWGB PlayPosit users can create bulbs from videos in their Kaltura My Media library or videos that are publicly shared on YouTube or Vimeo. After selecting a video source, the user can add interactions to the bulb to turn their video into an engaging learning experience. This guide provides instructions for creating a new PlayPosit bulb in UWGB's Ca

PlayPosit Peer Review Assignments enable instructors teaching in Canvas to assign an asynchronous activity where students are tasked with submitting a video and then reviewing the video submissions of the peers in their small group. The structure of a PlayPosit Peer Review Assignment helps avoid some technical issues that students commonly encounter when working with video and empowers students to leave feedback right within the video player as timestamped comments. This article details the proc

This article provides guidance to students participating in a PlayPosit Peer Review video assignment within a UW-Green Bay Canvas course.

Turnitin is a "similarity" checker that can be enabled for Canvas assignments. By enabling Turnitin for an assignment, you can see how much original text Turnitin believes a student's submission contains. Please note that Turnitin is often referred to as a plagiarism checker. This is not 100% accurate, hence their marketing around "similarity." We recommend you actively check any student submissions that you're concerned about.