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- Courses that are cross listed in Banner will show up as a single course based on the lowest CRN. Although a cross listed course in Banner has multiple sections, it only counts as a single course in Canvas.
- Faculty should make every effort to work with their department scheduling office and the registrar's office to cross list courses in Banner, but there is a way to merge courses in Canvas, as long as you are careful to abide by FERPA regulations. See our guide: Cross-listing Courses in Canvas.
Below are the dates when courses and organizations for a particular semester will be added to Canvas.
Semester | Date Loaded |
Fall 2024 (202410) | Early Mar 2024 |
Spring 2025 (202420) | Early Oct 2024 |
Summer 2025 (202430) | Early Oct 2024 |
Fall 2025 (202510, 202511, 202512, 2012513, 202514) | Early Mar 2025 |
Spring 2026 (202520, 202521, 202522, 202523, 202524) | Early Oct 2025 |
Summer 2026 (202530) | Early Oct 2025 |
Fall 2026 (202610, 202611, 202612, 2012613, 202614) | Early Mar 2026 |
Spring 2027 (202620, 202621, 202622, 202623, 202624) | Early Oct 2026 |
Summer 2027 (202630) | Early Oct 2026 |
Fall 2027 (202710, 202711, 202712, 2012713, 202714) | Early Mar 2027 |
Spring 2028 (202720, 202721, 202722, 202723, 202724) | Early Oct 2027 |
Summer 2028 (202830) | Early Oct 2027 |
Yes, there are student and instructor mobile apps available for iOS, iPadOS, and Android. Announcements, Discussions, Quizzes, Assignments, and Grades can be accessed from the student app. The instructor app allows annotations in the Canvas DocViewer. Download either app from your device's app store. For more information, go to .
Features and Functionality
Due to multimedia storage constraints in Canvas, all multimedia content (.mpg, .mov, .mp4, .wav etc.) should be stored in Panopto. Make sure the media content is uploaded to Panopto and is linked to or embedded in your Canvas courses. There is a 2 GB multimedia file limit set per course in Canvas.
When a course remains unpublished, students do not have access. A course must be published for students to see it on their Dashboard, assuming it is being published within the term dates set in place. Once the course is published, you can determine how much content you want students to view. Once the instructor has graded a submission, they will no longer have the option to unpublish the course.
Students will be able to access the course immediately after publishing, assuming it is within the start and end default term dates. Also, please note that you will be unable to unpublish a course if you have graded an item in the gradebook.
There is a way to restrict student access to a course after you've published, if you want to keep students from viewing content before the class actually starts. See our guide: Making Courses Unavailable to Students.
Supported file types are listed in the Canvas Guides:
Zoom has been defined as the University standard for web conferencing.
The conferencing tool that is packaged with Canvas is Big Blue Button. It does have several limitations. These include recordings that are only kept for 2 weeks (14 days) and are not downloadable, attendee limit of 24 etc. Additionally, video recordings are not automatically transferred to Panopto.
Yes. See the page. You can also use the .
Yes. See the page. You can also use the .
The has a great agenda feature that will allow you to create office hours. More information can be found in the Canvas Guides.
Users can upload an image to display behind the course card in the Canvas Dashboard. Accepted images include JPG, JPEG, GIF, and PNG files. For more information on how this is done, see the page.
Canvas Self-Enroll is being evaluated and how we would approach using that option. We believe that Canvas Catalog is a viable solution and will be providing more information on that in the near future.
Yes, Canvas offers course and department-level groups. Go to the "" page for more information.
Maybe. Though it's not 100% effective, you may have some luck with the method outlined in this Canvas blog post:
When you favorite at least one course, the Dashboard only displays favorited courses.
When no courses are favorited, the course list displays up to 20 courses alphabetically. After 20 courses, however, courses start to drop off the list. To see all of your courses, click the Courses icon in the menu bar.
For more information, see this Canvas guide:
Integration
All Zoom cloud recordings can be accessed through "My Media" in Canvas. From there, you can embed Zoom recordings.
Yes. The conferencing tool that is packaged with Canvas is Big Blue Button. It does have limitations, though. For example, meetings are limited to 24 attendees, recordings are only kept for 2 weeks (14 days) and are not downloadable. It is highly recommended that faculty use Zoom, the University's standard web conferencing tool.
Turnitin has been selected as the University-supported plagiarism tool and will be integrated with Canvas. Faculty received training on this new product in January 2022. You can or .
First, the instructor will need to .
Second, a Google Doc can be either embedded in a Canvas Page or you can use the to share the document with one or more students.
Get Started with Canvas
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Configure your Course Modules
Manage your Course Files in Canvas
Add and Organize your Course Content
Unfortunately, we don't offer this service. Faculty and coordinators are responsible for copying their own courses. For more information, please refer to this knowledge base article: .
Add Assignments to your Course
Communicate with your Students
To communicate with your entire course prior to the course start date, use the Canvas Inbox to send messages to all enrolled students. To accomplish this follow the directions provided in .
Add Quizzes & Surveys to your Course
Question types with partial credit options are outlined here on the page.
Use your Course Gradebook
You can choose from a few options for displaying test/quiz results - on a certain date, after it has been graded, etc. Here you will find the .
Canvas outlines a few ways you can administer extra credit. See the page for details.
Instructors can create as many assignment groups as necessary to accomplish variations of weighting. Please view the and pages in the Canvas Guides.
Columns in the Gradebook are only created by adding an assignment in Canvas. If you need to create a column in the Gradebook to use for manual grading, you can .
Accessibility
Canvas is built to be an accessible platform, but development of accessible content within a course is the instructor's responsibility and still needs to adhere to university accessibility guidelines. For more information, please refer to Educational Accessibility Resources for Faculty and Staff.
Instructure has stated that the Rich Content Editor's accessibility checker tool is an ongoing project, and they are continuing to improve the 11 different checks that it currently performs. More information can be found in the .