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 ...
Have you had to remove one of your course modules due to lack of time? In order to hide both the module and all of its content from your students you will need to: 1. Unpublish the module itself AND 2. Unpublish every item within that particular module If you do not unpublish the individual items in th...
Though Canvas offers the ability to curve students' grades, we recommend caution in using this feature because the grade curving cannot be undone. Pre- curving grade histories will be available, but the curving action is irreversible. It may be more tedious, but we recommend you curve grades manually at this point in t...
Canvas development sites are limited to FSU's faculty, instructional staff, and support staff. To request a Canvas development site, please [fill out our webform][1]: [https://odl.fsu.edu/canvasdev][1]. We will review all requests and reply within one full business day. When prompted to login, make sure to use yo...
Canvas gives you many options for communicating with your students - through [Announcements][1], [Conversations][2] (internal Canvas messaging tool similar to email), [chat][3] (communication in real time), and [web-conferencing][4]. _**Please note: we do not recommend using chat because its messages are not private.*...
## 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 may [add participants to your organization manually][1], [send participants a secret URL join code][2], or [contact ODL to set up batch enrollments][3] for very large groups. ## Option 1: Add participants manually 1. Click **People** on the navigation menu. ![][4] 2. Click the **+ People** button to add pe...
The best way to change your name in Canvas is to adjust your preferred name in other FSU systems so that your desired name will be reflected consistently across FSU systems. Once you see the change reflected on [your FSU MyProfile page][1], approximately 24-48 hours later your updated name should then display consisten...
In order to export your New Gradebook from Canvas, you will want to navigate to **Grades** from the Course Navigation Menu. From here, select **Actions** in the upper left of the New Gradebook, and then select **Export **from the drop-down menu. The New Gradebook can only be exported as a .csv file. ![][1] Further re...
## FAQs 1. [Can I customize my course site in Canvas?][1] 2. [Can I edit or customize the course navigation menu in my Canvas course site?][2] 3. [What settings and features are available at the course level?][3] 4. [How do I import the default Home page into my course from Commons?][4] 5. [How can I conn...