This screencast walks you through four parts of Canvas, also known as views. These views include the Dashboard, Global View, Course View, and Student View.

The Calendar is a global tool that keeps track of events and assignment due dates. You can use the Scheduler, a calendar tool, to create sign up sheets for meetings with students or student groups.

Set or change features and functions that control how Canvas courses work. In Settings you can choose a grading standard, allow students to create their own discussions, customize navigation, combine course sections, and decide how other course administrative functions work.

This screencast walks you through how to cross-list or combine sections of the same course into one course. Cross-listing or combining courses allows you to share one copy of your course content with multiple sections of students. You will be able to communicate, assign work, and monitor the entire group and individual sections.

Canvas allows you to add your own external documents, images, and media using Files.

In Canvas, the Calendar, Assignments, Grade Book, Syllabus, and Messaging are all connected. When you perform an action using any one of these tools, that action triggers actions in other tools.

Learn how to add and embed your course syllabus. You will also see how the Syllabus is connected to the Calendar and Assignments. These connections can help you build your course.

In this screencast, you will learn about enabling and using the attendance tool. Roll Call creates a graded assignment and awards students with full points for perfect attendance. When absences are recorded, students lose points.

This introduction includes assignment settings, the assignments index page, groups, and differentiated assignments.

These two features of the assignments tool allow you to structure and administer group and peer review assignments.

This overview shows you how to create an assignment rubric for a graded assignment, and then how to use that rubric to help you grade the assignment in SpeedGrader.

Canvas’ Discussions tool provides all of the traditional online discussion functions and features. In addition, Canvas also allows you to empower students to create their own discussion prompts and forums.

Present course content using a text editor and a content selector that allow you to create text and to link to and embed files, images, and media on a page.

By default, Canvas sets the home page to an activity stream that shows recent course activity. You can change the home page so that it displays the Modules index, the Assignments index, or the course Syllabus. You can also create a custom home page.

Using Modules you pull together different content elements of the course and organize them chronologically or by theme. You can also use module settings to control the release of content to students.