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Canvas' Instructor Guides

Geneseo Canvas Guides

• Adding co-Teachers or TAs to your Canvas Course
• Assignments with Canvas Rubrics and Turnitin Originality Checking
• Blackboard Ally Accessibility Reports for Canvas
• Calculating Final Grades in Canvas
• Canvas Attendance Tool
• Canvas Course Export Options
• Course Analytics and Quiz Statistics
• Create a Grade Column for Assignments Outside of Canvas
• Creating a Turnitin Assignment (Geneseo Guide)
• Creating Quizzes and Exams
• Customizing your Canvas Dashboard
• Export Canvas Final Grades for KnightWeb Importing
• Geneseo Resources for OSCQR
• Geneseo Resources in the Canvas Commons
• Importing Optical Scanning Data into Canvas Grades
• Improving Course Document Accessibility
• Integrating your Pearson MyLab or Mastering
• Managing Students - Groups and Sections
• MyLab & Mastering Coordinator courses and Canvas gradebook sync
• Question Groups and Banks
• Registering and Troubleshooting the Google Drive LTI
• Re-open a Completed Course For a Subset of Students to Manage an Incomplete
• Reviewing student activity and analytics
• SpeedGrader
• The "Undelete" Trick in Canvas
• TopHat Canvas Integration & Grades Sync
• Using Geneseo Outcomes for Assessment
• WeBWorK - Canvas Integration
• Weighting Grades using Assignment Groups

These guides are created for Geneseo faculty and staff for their use with Canvas. Some of the links will take you to the Canvas Instructor Guide, located in the Canvas Community. 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

• Share this "Start of Semester" Canvas checklist with your learners!
  • It's also available as a Canvas page you can import directly into your course from Canvas Commons.
• This YouTube Playlist from Canvas offers detailed student guidance on key Canvas features. 

Geneseo-created Canvas Self Help Videos

Course Quality Review Tools

To help campuses ensure that their online courses are learner centered and well designed, a team of Open SUNY staff and campus stakeholders has designed the OSCQR rubric, a customizable and flexible tool for online course quality review.

• Geneseo's Course Readiness Checklist
• The Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR)
• Geneseo Resources for OSCQR
• Canvas Community Course Evaluation Checklist
• Exemplar Courses from Open SUNY
  • To view the courses, you will need an Open SUNY Bb account
  • Click on Login in the upper right corner. You may be able to use the single SUNY sign on there, but if not, below the Login button there is a link to create a new account.

Accessibility

When developing your course, it's important to think about how to make your course inclusive and accessible to all learners, regardless of physical or learning disabilities.

• Improving Course Document Accessibility
• Uploading Lecture Slides and Recorded Videos to YouTube for Captioning
• SUNY Geneseo Accessible Syllabus Checklist 

Excellent self-paced tutorials for increasing digital accessibility are available through Deque University. Request access to their full collection of courses here: Deque University Accessibility Training

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 grant.

Policies and Resources

• Data Management Policy (When courses are added and removed)
• Making Files Accessible (US Dept. of Health & Human Services Resource)
• Copyright for Teachers and Scholars (Library Resource)
• OpenSUNY Online Teaching Resource Videos