Knowledge Base
Practical help for digital teaching
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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 …
An explanation of what embedding and linking files in Canvas are, and when you might want to use either of these things.
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.
How to create a Collaboration in Canvas.
Explaining how you can use Student Groups in Canvas to manage group assessments.
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.
Where Course Outline information should be displayed in your Canvas course and how the MIT Canvas Standards page can help you do this.
This Canvas Knowledge Base page explains what Canvas is, and how you can use it to engage your students.
How you can use organise summative, formative and diagnostic assessments in Canvas
The difference between an assignment and an assessment in Canvas.
Showing you how to link a video that you’ve recorded, e.g. a Teams session into your Canvas course.
How to upload and organise Files in Canvas.
How to create a Page in Canvas.
Helping you decide when to use Teams and when to use Canvas.
What a Discussion in Canvas is, and why you’d want to use one.
