How to Set Which Announcements Appear on the Home Page
To keep your students informed without overwhelming them, you can configure your course to display a set number of your most recent announcements directly on the Home page. Hints and Tips
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How to View Your Canvas Calendar in Outlook
Subscribing to your Canvas Calendar in Microsoft Outlook ensures that all your course deadlines and personal events appear alongside your staff meetings and emails. This feature uses a special URL feed to keep the calendars automatically synced. Get Your Unique Calendar Feed Link from Canvas Add the Feed to Microsoft Outlook The exact steps vary …
How to Add an Email Signature in Outlook
An email signature helps people know who you are and how to contact you. In Outlook, you can create a signature once and add it to every email automatically. This guide shows you how to add, edit, and use a signature in Outlook from Microsoft.Note: This guide covers the common Outlook versions for Windows and …
Seeing ADHD through the Pīwakawaka
Contributing author: Hana Hohapata, Kaiarahi Ako, Academic Centre I manaaki HoS and academic kaimahi to integrate mātauranga Māori into programmes, teaching, and learning. I also develop and oversee our mātauranga resource kete, Ako Whakatere in Canvas and partner with schools to integrate Te Mana Akoranga Tiriti principles into new programmes. Kia tuhonohono tatou: Let’s connect! Inspired …
How to Use IgniteAI Search
IgniteAI Search is an AI-powered tool in Canvas that helps lecturers and students quickly find course content using everyday language. It understands the meaning of search terms and returns relevant results from published course materials. It does not search Files or student submissions. IgniteAI Search returns results from published: When a search is entered, it …
How to Use IgniteAI Translations
IgniteAI Translations helps users read course content in their preferred language. It is available in Discussions and Announcements. This feature currently supports the following languages: Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. The following guide will be using Discussions but the steps are the same in both. Disable Translation …
How to Use IgniteAI Open Summary in Discussions
IgniteAI Discussion Summary uses generative AI to create a clear overview of the main points, key questions, and central ideas in a discussion thread. The summary is only available to lecturers, helping you quickly understand the direction and depth of student conversations. Using Discussion Summary can save time and help lecturers identify key themes quickly. …
How to Create a Hot Spot Question in New Quizzes
Hot Spot questions are excellent for visual assessments, such as identifying parts of a diagram, country on a map, or features in an image. However, this question type is not accessible to users who rely on keyboard-only access or screen readers. Use this type sparingly or provide an equivalent alternative text-based question. Upload the image …
How to Create a Classic Quiz
Classic Quizzes is a legacy tool. For all new assessments, you are strongly encouraged to use New Quizzes. New Quizzes offers better accessibility, security, advanced question types, and essential features like Item Banks. Create the Classic Quiz Shell Configure Settings: Scroll down to set the grading type, assignment group, shuffle answers, time limit, and restrict …
How to Create a Categorisation Question in New Quizzes
This question type is highly engaging and is perfect for assessing a student’s ability to sort, group, and classify information, such as grouping historical figures by era, identifying biological concepts by domain, or classifying different types of material. Access the Builder and Add the Question All question configuration occurs within the New Quizzes editor (the …
How to Add and Schedule Events in the Canvas Calendar
The Canvas Calendar is your main hub for communicating essential dates like deadlines, class times, and important reminders to your students. This guide provides all the steps you need, from creating a basic one-time event to setting up complex recurring class schedules. Use the following steps to schedule both one-time events and repeating series. Hints …
How to Write an Assessment
This Canvas Knowledge Base article is a helpful step by step guide on how to write an assessment. Step 1: Start with the learning outcomes Think about what you want students to know and be able to do by the end of the course or topic. These should guide everything else. Example: Learning outcome: “Apply basic …
Extraction of Results for Moderation
This Canvas Knowledge Base article is a helpful guide on how to extract student marks, rubrics and comments from Canvas for moderation for an individual student.
Redact Student Assessments Submitted to Canvas for Moderation
This Canvas Knowledge Base article is a helpful guide on how to remove identities from an assessment for external post-moderation using Foxit. In preparation for external post moderation, you need to remove your identity and that of your students from the PDF document. You must have Foxit PDF Editor on your computer to do this task. If you do not …
Moderation Planning & Tracking Tool
This Canvas Knowledge Base article is a helpful guide on how to use the MIT Moderation Planning and Tracking Tool. The Moderation Planning and Tracking Tool (MP&TT) records planned and completed moderation activities for a programme in a calendar year. It records when internal and external pre-moderation, post-moderation and check marking was completed as well as the outcomes. The MP&TT …