Faculty Help & Resources
General Help & Resources
- New federal rules for online learning (opens in a new window)
- Report a Canvas problem (opens in a new window)
- Technology coordinator contact for faculty (opens in a new window)
- Canvas instructor guide for faculty (opens in a new window)
- Canvas general accessibility design guidelines for faculty (opens in a new window)
- Cengage Learning (opens in a new window)
- McGraw-Hill Education (opens in a new window)
- Pearson (opens in a new window) (faculty can also contact their Person sales representative)
- Wiley (opens in a new window) (faculty can also contact their Wiley sales representative)
- Labster (opens in a new window) (faculty can also contact their Labster sales representative)
- Canvas LMS and accessibility statement (opens in a new window)
- Anthology Ally help for faculty (opens in a new window)
- Anthology Ally community website (opens in a new window)
- UHV inclusive learning and accessibility technology (Anthology Ally) (opens in a new window)
- National Center for Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE) (opens in a new window)
- Canvas Android mobile app for faculty (opens in a new window)
- Canvas iOS mobile app for faculty (opens in a new window)
- Canvas LTI integration requests (opens in a new window)
Canvas LMS FAQs
- I can't log into Canvas (contact your college's coordinator or support tech (opens in a new window))
- I don't see my course in Canvas (contact your college's coordinator or support tech (opens in a new window))
- How do I get a course shell in Canvas (opens in a new window)
- Where can I see a student's activity in Canvas (opens in a new window)
- Can I use my mobile device or smart phone (opens in a new window)
Anthology Ally Resources for Instructors
- Ally accessibility indicators (opens in a new window)
- Add alternative descriptions to image files (opens in a new window)
- Best practice for image descriptions added through Ally for Canvas (opens in a new window)
- Remove potentially harmful content (opens in a new window)
- Scanned PDFs and accessibility (opens in a new window)
- Add a library reference (opens in a new window)
- View all file accessibility issues (opens in a new window)
- Add alternative descriptions to PowerPoint images (opens in a new window)
- Add headings to a Word document (opens in a new window)
- Add headers to your data tables in Word (opens in a new window)
- Export a Word document as a tagged PDF (opens in a new window)
- Ally for LMS help for instructors (opens in a new window)
- Ally Youtube Channel (opens in a new window)
Canvas LMS 3rd-Party LTI Tool Integrations
UHV Canvas Videos
- Canvas Livestream Video Collection (opens in a new window)
- Canvas FastTrack Video Series (opens in a new window)
- What you can do with Canvas (opens in a new window)
- All Canvas instructor videos (opens in a new window)
- Announcements overview (opens in a new window)
- Assignments overview (opens in a new window)
- Calendar overview (opens in a new window)
- Canvas Instructor On-Demand Video Guides (opens in a new window)
- Canvas LMS on YouTube (opens in a new window)
- Discussions overview (opens in a new window)
- Files overview (opens in a new window)
- Gradebook overview (opens in a new window)
- Groups overview (opens in a new window)
- Modules overview (opens in a new window)
- New Analytics (opens in a new window)
- Pages overview (opens in a new window)
- Quizzes overview (opens in a new window)
- Rubrics overview (opens in a new window)
- SpeedGrader overview (opens in a new window)
Follett Discover (instructor textbook selection/material adoption)
TurnItIn Help & Resources
- TurnItIn Instructor Resource Hub (opens in a new window)
- TurnItIn Faculty Help (opens in a new window)
- TurnItIn LTI Integration Help for Canvas (opens in a new window)
- Complete TurnItIn Faculty Instructions (opens in a new window)
- How to Interpret the TurnItIn Similarity Report (opens in a new window)
- Full Documentation of the TurnItIn Similarity Report (opens in a new window)
UHV Canvas LMS Resources
- Accessibility checker in Canvas (opens in a new window)
- All Canvas Instructor Guides (opens in a new window)
- Analytics and New Analytics (opens in a new window)
- Announcements (opens in a new window)
- Announcements, adding (opens in a new window)
- Assignments (opens in a new window)
- Attendance (Roll Call) (opens in a new window)
- Calendar (opens in a new window)
- Course home page, changing (opens in a new window)
- Course, publishing (opens in a new window)
- Discussions (opens in a new window)
- ePortfolio (opens in a new window)
- Files (opens in a new window)
- Front page as home page, setting (opens in a new window)
- Grades (opens in a new window)
- Groups (opens in a new window)
- Inbox (opens in a new window)
- Inbox, using (opens in a new window)
- LTIs (external apps) (opens in a new window)
- Modules (opens in a new window)
- Module, creating (opens in a new window)
- Module, editing (opens in a new window)
- Pages (opens in a new window)
- Page, creating (opens in a new window)
- Profile and user settings (opens in a new window)
- Publish/unpublish a module (opens in a new window)
- Publish/unpublish a page (opens in a new window)
- Publish/unpublish an assignment (opens in a new window)
- Quizzes (opens in a new window)
- Rubrics (opens in a new window)
- Settings, changing (opens in a new window)
- SpeedGrader (opens in a new window)
- Syllabus, using (opens in a new window)
- Syllabus, editing (opens in a new window)
UHV Canvas LMS (Additional Resources)
- Canvas LMS status (opens in a new window)
- List of Upcoming Canvas LMS Changes (opens in a new window)
- List of Known Canvas LMS Issues (opens in a new window)
- Canvas LMS Product Roadmap/Upcoming New Canvas Features (opens in a new window)
- Canvas Community Homepage (opens in a new window)
- Training on LinkedIn Learning (opens in a new window)
- Canvas LMS Upgrade Schedule (opens in a new window)
UHV Library Help & Resources
Respondus Help & Resources
- Respondus 4.0 - optional for faculty/instructors (opens in a new window)
- Respondus LockDown Browser Accessibility Resource (opens in a new window)
Course Evaluations
How Do I Use the Canvas Training Services Portal as an Instructor? (opens in a new window) (available to UHV faculty & adjuncts until December 2023)
Canvas LMS How To Resources (provided by the Canvas Community)
Accessibility
Announcements
Assignments
- How do I create rules for an assignment group (opens in a new window)
- How do I assign an assignment to an individual student (opens in a new window)
- How do I assign an assignment to a course section (opens in a new window)
- Making assignments available to students (opens in a new window)
- How do I create rules for an assignment group & do things like drop lowest score (opens in a new window)
- How do I download all student submissions for an assignment (opens in a new window)
- How do I assign an assignment to an individual student (opens in a new window)
- How do I create a cloud assignment with a Microsoft Office 365 file (opens in a new window)
Courses
- How do I manage new features for a course (opens in a new window)
- How do I select specific content as part of a course import (opens in a new window)
- How do I copy content from another Canvas course using the Course Import tool (opens in a new window)
- How do I manage course navigation links (opens in a new window)
- How do I use the Course Navigation Menu as an instructor (opens in a new window)
- How do I restrict files and folders to students in Canvas (opens in a new window)
- How do I manage my Canvas notification settings as an instructor (opens in a new window)
- Setting the course entry point (opens in a new window)
- How do I delete a file or folder as instructor (opens in a new window)
- How do I create a new page in a Canvas course (opens in a new window)
- How do I edit a page in a course (opens in a new window)
- Creating a hyperlink using the Rich Content Editor (RCE) (opens in a new window)
- Creating a file link in a page (opens in a new window)
- How do I create a Microsoft Office 365 collaboration as an instructor (opens in a new window)
- How do I view my Microsoft Office 365 files in Canvas as an instructor (opens in a new window)
- How do I create a hyperlink from Microsoft Office 365 in the Rich Content Editor (RCE) as an instructor (opens in a new window)
Discussions
Due Dates
Grades
- How do I weight the final course grade on assignment groups (opens in a new window)
- How do I use the Total column in the Gradebook (opens in a new window)
- How do I view total scores in the Gradebook as if all ungraded assignments were given zero grades (opens in a new window)
- How do I enable a grading scheme for a course (opens in a new window)
- How do I add a grading scheme in a course (opens in a new window)
- How do I override a student's final grade in the Gradebook (opens in a new window)
- How do I view a student's Grades page in a course from the Gradebook (opens in a new window)
- How do I filter columns and rows in the Gradebook (opens in a new window)
- How do I use the icons and colors in the Gradebook (opens in a new window)
- How do I leave comments for students in the Gradebook (opens in a new window)
- What is SpeedGrader (opens in a new window)
- How do I use SpeedGrader (opens in a new window)
- How do I leave feedback comments for student submissions in SpeedGrader (opens in a new window)
- How do I send a message to students from the Gradebook (opens in a new window)
- How do I use the Gradebook (opens in a new window)
- How do I create assignment columns for non-submission assignments in the Gradebook (opens in a new window)
- How do I export grades in the Gradebook (opens in a new window)
- Removing columns from the Gradebook (opens in a new window)
Groups
- How do I automatically create groups in a group set (opens in a new window)
- How do I import groups in a group set (opens in a new window)
- How do I manually create groups in a group set (opens in a new window)
- Managing group assignment settings (opens in a new window)
- How do I create self sign-up groups in a group set (opens in a new window)
Modules
Quizzes
- How do I copy a quiz to another course (opens in a new window)
- New Quizzes Feature Comparison (opens in a new window)
- How do I migrate a Canvas quiz to New Quizzes (opens in a new window)
- Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time (opens in a new window)
- What options can I set in a quiz (opens in a new window)
- How do I publish or unpublish a quiz as instructor & do things like make changes to published quizzes (opens in a new window)
- How do I publish or unpublish a quiz as an instructor (opens in a new window)
- How do I create a quiz where students only see one question at a time (opens in a new window)