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How do students share or export their Canvas Portfolio?

Canvas Portfolio is a designated space for students to submit evidence towards their learning and reflect on their work. Canvas offers both Evaluation Portfolios, created by the instructor, and Showcase Portfolios, created by the student. Once published, students can enable sharing for both portfolio types, which will create a Share Link that students can share […]

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How do students create and submit evidence to a Canvas Portfolio?

Canvas Portfolio is a designated space for students to submit evidence towards their learning and reflect on their work. Canvas offers both Evaluation Portfolios and Showcase Portfolios. Evaluation Portfolios are created by the instructor, while Showcase Portfolios are created by the student. The process for students to submit evidence to either Portfolio type is the […]

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Get Started with Lucid in Canvas

Lucid for Education can be used to integrate interactive and visual learning tools directly into your course. There are two Lucid tools available under the Lucid (Whiteboard) menu item in Canvas, Lucidspark and Lucidchart. These are referred to as the Lucid Education Suite.  Lucidspark is a virtual whiteboard tool that enables students to collaborate on […]

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Why is my course copy job stuck in “queued”?

When copying a course, usually the copy job will complete in about a minute. However, sometimes you may notice much longer times. In these cases, the job will usually say “queued”. This happens during times when Canvas is experiencing particularly high traffic, such as shortly before and after the start of a new semester. The […]

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I am being warned about overwriting imported course content, what does this mean?

When copying course content, an automatic warning that states “Importing the same course content more than once will overwrite any existing content in the course” will populate for any content type. This warning does not mean that any content in your course will disappear. However, if you import the same course content into the same […]

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Why can’t students see the content I created?

All content in Canvas must be published and placed in a published module to be viewed by students. If an item is not placed in a module, or if the item and/or module is unpublished, students will not be able to see it. You can find instructions on adding items to modules in our Add Items […]

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How do I copy a Canvas course?

Please see our Copy a Canvas Course spotlight for step-by-step directions for copying your Canvas course. Have questions? Need additional support on this or other teaching and learning topics? Please visit us for drop-in support or try one of our self-help tutorials.  Ready to take your teaching to the next level? Opt into our Connections […]