Learn how to bulk edit the dates in your Canvas course instead of manually changing each and every date. Then, simply verify and edit when needed.
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Faculty Tutorials
These tutorials are for faculty members teaching distance education (online) in Texas A&M University's College of Engineering.
Getting Ready to Record at Home
This tutorial includes everything you need for getting ready to record at home.
We will discuss sound and visual quality, thus improving your students’ learning experience. Lastly, we’ll discuss scripting and rehearsing, recording in PowerPoint, and submitting your content.
Continue ReadingExamity Setup in Canvas
The following page includes instructions and additional information about setting up Examity in Canvas for practice and real quizzes and exams.
Continue ReadingPossible Time Issues in Canvas Quizzes
Canvas availability windows work differently than those in eCampus. Instead of the time window being a start window, in Canvas, the time window is absolute and overrides all other settings.
To illustrate this, we’ll go over two examples.
Continue ReadingUsing Categories in New Quizzes
Canvas offers a variety of tools to support creative teaching practices in online and face-to-face courses. New Quizzes is no exception, offering four novel question types, Hotspot, Ordering, Stimulus, and Categorization, to move assessment beyond multiple choice questions.
Categorization questions are a great way to engage students with the material and creatively measure their understanding.
Continue ReadingImport Content into Your Canvas Course
Importing your previous semester’s section in Canvas to your new section makes it easy to start your semester. This tutorial will help walk you through a simple set of steps to transfer content from one Canvas course to another.
4-minute video by Lani Draper
Continue ReadingClean Up Your Canvas Dashboard
Have trouble finding your current courses? Want a faster way to get to the courses you need most?
Clean up your Canvas Dashboard in 3 easy steps; save yourself time every time you log in.
1.5-minute video by Lani Draper
Continue ReadingHow to Upload a Syllabus to Canvas
Learn how to upload a syllabus to Canvas and link to it within your TAMU Canvas course. In the end, your students will see your syllabus linked directly on the Canvas home page.
2-minute video by Christine Roach
Continue ReadingHow to Create an Accessible Word Document
Follow this guide to help you create an accessible Word document for all your students.
Use the accessibility fundamentals and Word’s internal Accessibility Checker together to ensure you create accessible course materials for your students. This helps ensure every student has an equitable chance of succeeding in your course.
Continue ReadingHow to Convert a Word Document to an Accessible PDF
This tutorial provides instructions for how to convert a Word document to an Accessible PDF. Use the Save As of Save a Copy feature only, as the Print to PDF and Save as Adobe PDF features will not produce an accessible PDF file.
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