Canvas for Faculty - Getting Started

On this page, you will find resources and tutorials that cover the essentials of using Canvas to deliver content, engage your class, and deliver assessments. We regularly expand and update content on our YouTube channel to help you navigate Canvas features. For more tutorials:

• Search the Canvas Guides for Instructors 
• Canvas Training for Faculty course

Getting Started	Course Design and Management
Canvas Course Copy Request Form	Customize Your Courses List
Course Navigation - the Basics	Archiving your Gradebook content
Use the Syllabus tool in Canvas	Copying Course Content into a new term
Creating Course Announcements	Using Student Preview
Using the Canvas Inbox to send messages	Course Copy FAQs
Dashboard: Canvas Course to Course Navigation	Managing Incomplete Students
Building Content	Canvas Assignments
Organize your content with Modules	Creating an Assignment
Add a Module	How Students Submit Assignments
Move or Reorder Modules	Assignment Types
Understanding the Text Editor	Group Assignments
Setting your course Home Page	Creating a rubric and associating it with an assignment
Add a Page	Grading assignments with a rubric in SpeedGrader
Add a File	Copy a rubric to use in another course
Add an External URL/ Web link	Outcomes Assessment with Canvas rubrics
Add an External Tool
Course links
Upload videos using Kaltura in Canvas
Quizzes and Question Banks	Engagement & Media Tools
Creating a Quiz	Creating Discussion Boards
Creating Questions and Question Types	Creating Groups and Using Group Tools
Adding Quizzes to a Module	Introduction to Kaltura Media
Quiz Options	Everything to know about using Zoom
Building a Question Bank	Post videos in your course with Kaltura Media
Building a Quiz from a Question Bank	Guide to using a COCC Go Bag
Give a Student Another Attempt For a Quiz
Printing Quizzes from Canvas with Respondus
Importing and Exporting Quizzes Into a Different Course
Turn It In	Grades
Creating a TurnItIn Assignment	Tour the Gradebook in Canvas
Submitting a TurnItIn Assignment	Setting up Assignment Groups to Create a Weighted Total
Feedback Studio - Commenting Tools	SpeedGrader
Feedback Studio - How to View Similarity Reports	Add a Late Submission Policy
Feedback Studio - How to Use Layers	Curve Grades
Creating Peermark Assignments	COCC Guide to Setting up your Gradebook in Canvas video
External Tool vs. Plagiarism Framework in Canvas	Managing Incomplete Students
Turnitin Instructor Introduction Guide

 

Retired Beginner's Guides
Effective Organization and Navigation	Establishing Instructor Presence	Building a 'Getting Started' content area