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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.
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.
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.
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 the procedure for removing a Canvas course from your Dashboard.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The "Redirect Tool" in Canvas allows you to add a link as an item to your course navigation.
This document details an overview of how to use the Kaltura My Media video tools within Canvas to upload, create, and embed videos.
This document details how to get the embed code for a video (to share on a web page, for example)