Articles about the Canvas LMS

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Canvas - Assigning Alternate Assignment Due Dates to Specific Students

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".

Canvas - Calendar Guide for Instructors

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.

Canvas - Calendar Guide for Students

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.

Canvas - Contacting 24/7 Canvas Support

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.

Canvas - Create Sandbox Template Courses 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 - ePortfolio Gude for Instructors

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.

Canvas - ePortfolio Guide for Students

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.

Canvas - Guidelines for Combining Sections into a Single 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.

Canvas - How to Sign In

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

Canvas - Inbox Guide for Instructors

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.

Canvas - Inbox Guide for Students

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.

Canvas - Sharing ePortfolios

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.

Canvas - User Account Creation for New UWGB Students, Staff, and Faculty

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

Canvas (Continuing Education) - Login and Password Resets for Community Members without UWGB Network Accounts

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.

Canvas (Discussions) - As a student, how do I embed files in a Canvas discussion?

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

Canvas (Instructors) - Using Files

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.

Course Evaluations (Program Chairs) - Excluding a Section from the Standard Evaluation

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.

Kaltura - Adding Hotspots to a My Media Video in Canvas

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.

Kaltura - Inserting a Video in Canvas with the Rich Content Editor

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

Kaltura - My Media and 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 - Using the Kaltura Capture Desktop Recorder

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.

Kaltura - Using Video Player Controls

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

Kaltura (Canvas) - Downloading a Video from Your My Media Library

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 (Canvas) - Uploading Videos

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.

Kaltura (My Media) - Getting an Embed Code from My Media

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

Kaltura (My Media) - Upgrading a Video Embed to the New v7 Player

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