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What is Canvas Calendar?

An explanation of what the Calendar in Canvas is, and how best you and your students could use it.

Display a File on Canvas

Embed a file on a page and display (view / preview / display) the file on a Canvas page.

Add Calendar Event

How to add a calendar event in Canvas.

Post a Chat

How to post a Chat in Canvas.

What is Canvas Chat?

Explore what Chat is in Canvas, and how you can use it.

Adding space around an Image

How to add space or padding around images on Canvas. Click Edit and switch to HTML Editor Locate the HTML code for the image(s) you’d like to adjust. Use Control+F or Command+F (Mac) to search for <img  to make it easier to find. Locate the image’s style attribute inside the img tab. If the image …

Embed or Link Files?

An explanation of what embedding and linking files in Canvas are, and when you might want to use either of these things.

What is a Collaboration?

What the Collaborations in Canvas are, and how best you and your students could use them. It also explains that you can do that you can do the same thing using Office365 or Google Docs.

Create a Collaboration

How to create a Collaboration in Canvas.

Group vs Individual Assessments

Explaining how you can use Student Groups in Canvas to manage group assessments.

Home Page Design

Showing you what your Home page in Canvas should look like and what to include. It shows how you can use the MIT Canvas Standards (MCS) template to do this.

Syllabus Page

Where Course Outline information should be displayed in your Canvas course and how the MIT Canvas Standards page can help you do this.

What is Canvas?

This Canvas Knowledge Base page explains what Canvas is, and how you can use it to engage your students.

Formative and Summative Assessment

How you can use organise summative, formative and diagnostic assessments in Canvas

Assignments vs Assessments

The difference between an assignment and an assessment in Canvas.

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