Annoto Personal Notes
Annoto Personal Notes is a feature that allows students or instructors to make time-tagged notes while watching videos. These notes are visible only to the individual who made them and help link notes to a particular part of a video for easy reference. You can use your personal notes to summarize the video, reflect …
Introducing New Quizzes
What is New Quizzes? New Quizzes is Canvas's new assessment engine, which will replace the current "Classic" Quizzes over the next few years. New Quizzes was built as a separate web tool to integrate into Canvas using the LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) standard that securely connects applications to Canvas a…
New Quizzes Transition Timeline
New Quizzes is Canvas's new assessment engine which will eventually replace "Classic" Quizzes. On October 26, 2022, Instructure, which is Canvas' parent company, decided to eliminate the June 2024 transition deadline . With this change, FSU faculty now have more flexibility to use and assess features according to th…
What settings and features are available at the course level?
At the course level you can update and see the different users and sections in your course, and you can modify the navigation of your course. You can also determine whether or not to use Canvas's new features in your course site by turning them on or off. See our Instructors: Course Settings Options article for mor…
How do I use/navigate Assignments in Canvas?
Canvas Assignments include Quizzes (assessments and surveys), graded Discussions, and online submissions (paper submissions). The Assignments page shows your students all of the Assignments that will be expected of them in the course and how many points each one is worth. You can assign a particular Assignment to the…
Help! What can I do with my Canvas site?
There are several options available to you to determine how your course site looks and functions. There is also a variety of content that you can add to your Canvas site. We recommend you start with the following resources: * Canvas Best Practices * Canvas Course Setup Checklist * Course Settings Options * Acces…
How do I create an assignment in Canvas?
You can create assignments from the Assignments Index page (Assignments area of course site) and you have two options: * You can create an assignment shell, or * You can create the entire assignment. An assignment shell is just a placeholder for the assignment within an assignment group, such as a discussion assig…
Get to Know New Quizzes
New Quizzes has changed, updated, and improved many features that you use when creating a quiz or exam in Canvas. Use this guide to see how a New Quiz is created from start to finish and explore how the layout has changed. You can click on any image to enlarge it. Navigate this page: Creating a Quiz New Questio…
Instructors: How to activate your Kaltura account in Canvas
Kaltura, our premier video upload service integrated with Canvas, isn't automatically available to new users. But fear not: it's available to everyone after a few simple steps! Listed below are two ways you can activate your account and get started using Kaltura: * Authorize Kaltura from the Canvas Help menu * Aut…
How do I navigate around/use Canvas?
Not sure where to start? Feeling overwhelmed at the prospect of learning how to use a new system? Fear not - here are some resources to help you get started in Canvas! We recommend starting with FSU's Canvas Instructor/Staff Orientation course. If you'd like a deeper dive, the Office of Digital Learning offers co…
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