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Manage Your Canvas Profile and Notification Settings

Your Canvas profile lets you choose a profile picture and share a brief biography with your students. Setting up your Canvas profile will help your students get to know you as a person, which increases instructor presence, humanizes your course, and makes your course more engaging. In this tutorial, we’ll add a profile picture, fill […]

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Canvas Tools Grading

Use the Attendance (Roll Call) Tool

The Attendance Tool is an integrated application that allows you to take attendance from within Canvas. This is helpful for both in-class and synchronous formats of classes. If you wish to use this application, you will need to enable it within each course. Note: When you take attendance using Attendance (Roll Call), Canvas automatically adds Attendance […]

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Blueprint Canvas Tools Communication Ready Set Go

Use the Syllabus Tool

The MSU Denver Canvas Blueprint is a template that is included in every Canvas Course Shell. One feature of the blueprint is the Canvas Syllabus tool/template. The Syllabus template is designed for you to replace the bracketed information with your specific course information. Using this template helps you outline your course details and communicate important […]

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Canvas Tools

Change Notifications for Individual Courses

Notifications are messages sent by Canvas to alert you of activity in your courses. You are able to manage notification settings in two ways. One way is to click Account in the global navigation menu and set preferences that affect all of your courses. The other method is to manage notification preferences for individual courses, […]