Can I customize my course site in Canvas?
All courses will look relatively the same, making the course structure fairly uniform across all sites. However, you can customize your home page to be one of the following: * Course Activity Stream (most recent activity and interactions). * Pages Front Page (select a page in the course site to be the site's landi…
Design Tools: Getting started
CiDi Labs Design Tools provides a powerful tool set for creating eye-catching, accessible, and informative course content in Canvas that displays well across a variety of devices. To get started with using Design Tools, we recommend you begin with pre-formed page templates. These templates can be used anywhere that y…
Cidi Labs Design Tools: Building a course homepage
Creating a Homepage Using Cidi Labs Design Tools, you can create a custom Homepage for your Canvas course(s). Creating a course Homepage will allow you to provide your students with the tools necessary to successfully complete your course, while at the same time adding some creativity and visual interest to your cou…
Instructors: How to email your students via the Faculty Center in myFSU
* Login on to my.fsu.edu with your FSUID and password. Your portal page will appear after login. * From the left-hand side of your portal page, choose Teaching > Faculty Center . * Your "My Schedule" page appears. * Under "My Teaching Schedule," click the Class Roster icon for the section containing studen…
How do I navigate/use Canvas's Gradebook?
Canvas automatically creates a Gradebook column for each item in your course's Assignments list. Canvas has a grade history feature, allows you to mute an assignment to hide grades from students until you are done grading, allows you to download assignment submissions to grade or view offline , and more. Canvas…
How do I hide the calculated total column from students?
* Go to your course Settings * Expand the More Options link at the bottom * Check the box next to "Hide totals in student grades summary" * Click Update Course Details
Canvas Course Setup Checklist
We have created a course setup checklist for our FSU community that incorporates our best practice recommendations . This checklist is available in two different formats: As a Google Doc, or an accessible PDF. Please select your preferred format below. Canvas Course Setup Checklist Google Doc Accessible Canvas Cou…
Publish, Publish, Publish: Key to Canvas as well as academia!
Make sure your students can access your course and its content. Students cannot access your course or any specific items until you have both published the course itself AND published the specific items you want your students to access. Publish your course site You can publish your course site in two ways: From the …
How do I message my students in a course before the semester starts?
There are two ways you can communicate with students in your course before the semester start date: * Use the Faculty Center email roster tool in myFSU. * Publish your course and move up the course start date in Canvas. How to publish your Canvas course * In the Home page, select to Publish the course. …
Can I email students from within the Gradebook interface?
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 nu…
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