Canvas Help for Teachers

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Click here for helpful documents about creating and using video in a Canvas course. 

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Click here for helpful documents about creating and using Canvas assignments.

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Click here for helpful documents about building pages, making announcements, grading periods in Canvas gradebook, updated info. on exporting grades from Canvas into eTAC, quizzes, modules, notifications, and other Canvas features.

Check out the list of videos below for additional help!  If you don't see what 

you want, email me.

Canvas for Teachers Using last year's course material for this year
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Kellie Lahey

Canvas for Teachers Using last year's course material for this year

No need to rebuild your class's Canvas course for this year! Watch this short video to see how to just copy last year's course material for this year.
Canvas Importing Content to a Course
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Kellie Lahey

Canvas Importing Content to a Course

This video shows how you can import content 2 ways: 1. Importing from last year's (or another) Canvas course 2. Importing from The Commons
How to Create a New Course
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Kellie Lahey

How to Create a New Course

Watch this video to see how to create a "teacher made" Canvas course and to set a Home page.
Create a Navigation Button for Your Canvas Page
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Kellie Lahey

Create a Navigation Button for Your Canvas Page

Watch this video to make a button that you can put on your Canvas course pages so that students and parents can easily navigate back to your Home page.
Canvas for Teachers: Putting Your Content on a Page
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Kellie Lahey

Canvas for Teachers: Putting Your Content on a Page

This video explains how to put content on your page or assignment using the Rich Content Editor: how to change fonts, how to create links, and how to add images to your Canvas pages and assignments. It also shows how to make an image that is clickable- like a button on a typical web page.
Canvas for Teachers: Adding Content to a Page- Audio & Video files
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Kellie Lahey

Canvas for Teachers: Adding Content to a Page- Audio & Video files

This video explains more tools on the Rich Content Editor- how to add audio files, how to record yourself (camera on or off) and put it on your page or assignment, and how to add files like PDFs.
Creating Modules to Organize Your Lessons
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Kellie Lahey

Creating Modules to Organize Your Lessons

Use this video to learn how to create a module so that you can organize your assignments and other content for your course.
Canvas for Teachers- Creating a Google Cloud Assignment
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Kellie Lahey

Canvas for Teachers- Creating a Google Cloud Assignment

This is a video explaining how to create a Google Cloud Assignment. This type of assignment is when the teacher creates a doc or slideshow for a template for the students to complete. The assignment is in Canvas, but when the students click on the button, the system connects with their Google Drive and makes a copy of that template in the student's Drive. If a student gets an "Authorize" message, when she/he clicks on the button, please check out my video that helps you walk through the troubleshooting for that.
Canvas Teachers Create an Assignment for Submitting a Student Created Google Presentation Document
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Kellie Lahey

Canvas Teachers Create an Assignment for Submitting a Student Created Google Presentation Document

This is the best way for teachers to create an assignment for students to turn in a Google doc or presentation that they created. (not a Google Cloud assignment.) Teachers will save so much time scoring/grading when they set up the assignment like this because the system will embed the student's work in the Speedgrader window, instead of clicking a link to open another window with the student work.
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