Welcome to the Canvas Spotlight! Below you will find a list of tutorials that have been featured in Early Bird Spotlight articles. These tutorials cover a wide range of tools that will help you improve your experience and your students’ experiences in your Canvas courses. Each tutorial presents ideas and best practices, as well as step-by-step written and video walkthroughs to help you implement these tools in your Canvas course.
Tutorials
- Update Your Course for the New Term
- Finalize Your Course for End of Semester
- Use Hypothesis for Collaborative Annotations on Documents in Canvas
- Prerequisites, Requirements, and Locking in Canvas Modules
- Using MS Teams to Create Recurring Synchronous Meetings
- Using Rubrics in Canvas
- Communicate with Students
- Advanced Presenter Modes in MS Teams
- Use Quiz Accommodations in Canvas
- Late Policies
- Extending Deadlines for Excused Work
- Use Formula Quiz Questions in Canvas
- Sharing Files with Students
- Using SpeedGrader Comment Library
- Converting Paper Tests to Canvas Quizzes
- Set Up Assignment Submissions
- Extra Credit Options in Canvas
- The New and Improved 2021 Canvas Blueprint
- Add Readings and Videos to the Course Summary
- Add Items to Modules
- Weighted Grading
- Grading in Canvas – How to Set up and Customize Gradebook
- Grading in Canvas – How Students Interact with Grades in Canvas
- Grading in Canvas – What Can and Cannot Be Graded in the Canvas Gradebook?
- Grading in Canvas
- Use SpeedGrader in Canvas
- Video Discussions
- Use Unicheck
- Use MS Teams Breakout Rooms
- Formative Assessments
- Voiceover PowerPoints
- Use Groups in Canvas