Faculty Center - Canvas How To Videos & Documents

The Faculty Center is part of the Division of Online Education & Learning Resources.  

Quick Start Tutorials

• Logging in to Canvas at Saddleback

• Canvas Quick Tip - Post your syllabus and grades in 3 minutes or less!

• Get Started - How to log in add syllabus, post grades (video series)

• New Rich Content Editor - Preview the changes - on by default in December 2020 

Publish the Course:

• Publish (make course available to students) Options 

Accessibility Tools:

• Ally accessibility checker
• ReadSpeaker & TextAid Integrated Accessibility Tools

Communication:

• Announcements
• Setting Announcements on Home Page
• Discussion boards

Content:

• Assignments
• Addings files (like PowerPoint, Word, etc) and use content pages
• Course navigation menu (customize)
• Setting Home Page
• Undo page edits
• Uploading and embedding images
• See What Students See (student view)

Video options:

• Create videos with Monosnap and embed in Canvas
• Embed YouTube in Canvas Option 1

Tests:

• Extra attempts or unlock a quiz
• Extend Test Times (doc)
• Proctorio proctored exams
• Quiz Stats (doc)
• Quiz Logs and Student Interactions (doc)

Grades:

• Total column options
• Grade Averages - Weighting Grades

Semester to semester maintenance:

• *Copy Canvas Course from semester to semester*
• Copy little bits of content from one course to another
• Find the number of students enrolled
• Manage the Canvas Dashboard

Plug-ins:

• Ally accessibility checker 
• Films on Demand
• Films on Demand (doc)
• Turnitin: Faculty 
• Turnitin: Student view
• Turnitin(doc)
• How to View Feedback on a Turnitin Paper (doc)
• ReadSpeaker & TextAid Integrated Accessibility Tools
• VoiceThread

More:

•  Videos from Canvas

• Design examples and templates
• Introduction to Teaching with Canvas
• Quick Start with Canvas and Zoom
• Proctorio Online self-paced class: Interact with Proctorio like a student