## Cases where a Canvas course site is a good fit 1. If your organization site is an academic organization that provides information, announcements, and/or surveys to participants and/or enrolls users each term using automatic enrollments. 2. If your organization site is a course of some sort, i.e. student orienta...
You can restrict the file type for assignment submissions. For example, if you would like your students to only upload word documents for grading and not any other file type such as a pdf or a ppt, you can specify the file extensions for MS Word document such as _doc_ and _docx_ in the **Restrict Upload File Types **fi...
Yes, you can make group-specific discussions in Canvas. It may be beneficial to create the student groups first, and then create the group discussions. Further resources: * [How do I create a group discussion in a course?][1] * [How do I assign a graded discussion to a course group?][2] * [How do I assign a gr...
Canvas calls exempted grades "excused." Excused assignments are not factored into the student's total grade, and the student will not be able to submit the excused assignments. You can excuse a grade by selecting the specific student's cell in the gradebook and typing "EX." Alternatively, you can follow the steps in ...
Please read through our [Canvas organizations][1] information. A link to the Organization Request Form can be found on this page. [1]: /kb/article/930-creating-an-organization-using-a-canvas-course-site/ ...
Turnitin has reported issues arising when students on Apple computers use the Safari browser to access and submit Turnitin assignments in Canvas. The specific error message reads: "_Loading Error: We couldn't carry out that action because you have been logged out. Please log in again from the Turnitin home page._" Th...
Please fill out our webform to submit a request for a Canvas development site: [https://odl.fsu.edu/canvasdev][1] When prompted to login, make sure to use your fsuid@fsu.edu email address. Using a vanity FSU email address (e.g., [jsmith@admin.fsu.edu][2] or jdoe@med.fsu.edu) will result in a permissions error. ...
Yes. Canvas has fairly extensive rubric options, allowing you to attach a rubric to an assignment, graded discussion item, and to assessments (called "quizzes"). Rubrics can be used both for grading purposes or for feedback only. You can also create rubrics in Microsoft Excel and then import those rubrics into Canva...
Canvas automatically creates a Gradebook column for each item in your course's Assignments list. Canvas has a [grade history][1] feature, allows you to [mute an assignment][2] to hide grades from students until you are done grading, allows you to [download assignment submissions to grade or view offline][3], and more....
You can email students from the Gradebook interface in Canvas, but you cannot send messages on an individual basis and instead must choose from categories of students. You can send messages to your students based on the following assignment categories: Haven't submitted yet, Haven't been graded, Scored less than X numb...
