These guides are created for Geneseo faculty and staff for their use with Canvas. Some of the links will take you to the Canvas Community, and you may need to sign in with your Geneseo account credentials to view the pages. The Canvas Community is a rich collection of guides, resources, and opportunities to share ideas with other Canvas users.
Please use the "Provide Feedback" button on your right to offer suggestions or ideas for this collection.
Canvas Guides for Students
More Help
For questions about Canvas, contact CIT via our online service desk or email canvas@geneseo.edu.
To explore Canvas Community Guides (created by Instructure), visit https://community.canvaslms.com/community/answers/guides
Canvas Self-Paced Training for Geneseo Faculty & Staff
Getting Started
- Managing your Canvas Account and Notifications
- Customizing your Canvas Dashboard
- How to add an image to a Course Card
- Syllabus
- Course Home Page
- Course Navigation
- Modules
- Adding Content to your Canvas Course
- Communicating with your Class
- Open a Course to Students Before the 1st day of Class
- Calendar
- Translating from myCourses to Canvas
- Canvas Mobile Apps
- Optimizing Content for Mobile Student Users
- Summer 2017 Canvas Training Booklet.pdf
Grades
- Weighting Grades using Assignment Groups
- How to enable a Grading Scheme for a Course
- What the Icons and Colors in the Gradebook Represent
- Using SpeedGrader
- Using DocViewer in Canvas Assignments
- Muting Assignments During Grading
- SpeedGrader for iOS
- SpeedGrader for Andriod
- Using a rubric to grade in SpeedGrader
- How to grade one quiz question at a time in Speedgrader
- Importing Optical Scanning Data into Canvas Grades
- Giving Extra Credit in a Course
- Creating an Extra Credit Quiz
- Calculating Final Grades in Canvas
- How to Export Final Grades for KnightWeb Importing
- Reviewing student activities and analytics
Rubrics
- Managing rubrics in a course
- Adding rubrics to assignments, discussions or quizzes
- Assignments with Canvas Rubrics and Turnitin Originality Checking
- Setting up rubrics for grading
- Using a rubric to grade in SpeedGrader
Content Utilities
Managing Your Courses
- Exporting from myCourses and Importing into Canvas
- Copy Content from One Canvas Course to Another
- Adding co-Teachers or TAs to your Canvas Course
- Course Analytics and Quiz Statistics
- Using modules to track student progress of students in a course
- How to Cross List Sections in a Course (Merge Sections)
- The "Undelete" Trick in Canvas
- Managing Students - Groups and Sections
- How do I include a course in the Public Course Index?
- Canvas Commons Guide
External Apps and LTIs - Integrating with Canvas
- Registering the Google Drive LTI
- Faculty Enlight Book Adoptions & Bookstore for Students
- Films on Demand Integration (external link)
- Integrating your Pearson MyLab or Mastering
- LTI (External Apps) Integration Notes
- TopHat Canvas Integration & Grades Sync
- WriteLab LTI for Canvas
Policies and Resources
Course Content
Request a Non-Credit or Test Course
Assignments
- Creating Assignments
- How do I use the Assignments Index Page?
- Creating a cloud assignment with a Google Drive file
- Creating a Turnitin Assignment (Geneseo Guide)
- Assignments with Canvas Rubrics and Turnitin Originality Checking
- Creating a Turnitin Assignment (Canvas Guide)
- How to use Turnitin Feedback Studio (video)
- Peer Review Assignments
Attendance
Discussions
Files
Group Work
- Creating Student Groups
- Managing Students - Groups and Sections
- How to create Group Assignments
- How to create Group Discussions
- How to create a Collaboration with Google Docs
- How to create a Collaboration with Google Drive
Modules
- Modules
- How to Add Requirements to a Module
- How to Bypass Requirements and Prerequisites
- Using Modules to Track Student Progress in a Course
Pages
- Creating and Managing Pages
- Course Home Page
- Creating a Home Page with Auto-open Syllabus Preview
- How to use the Pages Index Page
- How to set a Front Page in a Course
Quizzes
- Creating Quizzes and Exams
- LockDown Browser - Faculty Instructions for Canvas
- Using the Moderate Quiz page
- How to give students an extra attempt on a Quiz
- How to give students extra time on a Quiz
- Question Groups and Banks
- Course Analytics and Quiz Statistics
- Question Regrade Options
- Understanding Multiple Answers Questions
Accessibility
When developing your course, it's important to think about how to make your course accessible to all learners specifically those that may have a disability.
If you are interested in earning a certificate and badges for accessibility and Universal Design for Learning, register for the public self-paced course "Accessibility: Designing and Teaching Courses for All Learners" that was created by SUNY Buffalo State & SUNY Empire State through a SUNY IITG.
SUNY FACT2 Council formed a task group to promote the importance of accessible content. Please visit their website for additional resources.