Instructors: How do I grade Turnitin assignments in Speedgrader?
Canvas makes a copy of student submissions to Turnitin and displays them in the SpeedGrader for the assignment in question. It also displays originality reports and similarity indexes on the displayed documents. How to grade Turnitin submissions via Speedgrader A. Open SpeedGrader * Click into your course site.…
FSU's Policy on Self-advertising through Canvas
FSU policy strictly prohibits solicitation for financial gain both in-person and online using a University account. FSU policy also strictly prohibits using IT resources for the propagation of spam. Therefore, FSU-owned resources like Canvas and Webmail should not be used to solicit others for the personal sale of cl…
How to Convert a classic Question Bank to a New Quizzes Item Bank
Canvas currently does not have a way to migrate a Classic Quizzes Question Bank to a New Quizzes Item Bank , but this is a requested feature that Canvas Engineers are currently working on. We do not have a timeframe of when this feature will be released. To begin the manual transfer process, we must first create …
How can I exempt a student's grades?
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 i…
How to add another email address to your Canvas account
Adding another email address to your Canvas account is crucial if you forward your FSU emails to another address, such as an @bio.fsu.edu address or a personal account like an @gmail.com address. These email addresses MUST be added to your Canvas account in order for you to successfully reply to a Canvas email notifi…
How to apply Outcomes to a Canvas Rubric
For information on designing student learning outcomes, please visit FSU’s Office of Institutional Performance and Assessment or contact [email protected] . The most common method of using an Outcome is to align it to a Canvas rubric. It is possible to align as many Outcomes to a rubric as desired. These Outcomes can b…
Canvas Best Practices
Course Setup: Getting started building your new Canvas course site * Getting Started building your new Canvas course site Course Setup Basics * Use a development site to build out your course . This minimizes any potentially major issues that may occur during course-building and guarantees that your students ca…
Can I make students post to a discussion board before they can see other students' posts?
Yes, you can select this option in your Canvas discussions. However, please keep in mind that sometimes students will work around this requirement by deleting their posts. To prevent students from being able to use this "workaround" you can change your course settings to disable students' ability to delete their pos…
Instructors: How to Submit an Assignment Directly to Turnitin
Please keep in mind: With the New Turnitin Direct, submitting an assignment directly to Turnitin will not have the assignment sync to the Canvas Gradebook. Instead, it will need to be submitted through canvas. * Navigate to Turnitin.com and log in. If this is the first time you are accessing Turnitin.com you …
How to set up your course Grading Scheme
It is important that you enable and accurately implement a Grading Scheme in your Canvas course that matches the information you provide in your course syllabus. This is crucial because if your Canvas course grading scheme is not accurate, then your students will see a different final grade calculation in Canvas than…
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