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Canvas Tools Navigating Canvas

View Your Course in Student View

By default, you will be using your Canvas courses from the “instructor view,” which shows some options not available to students. including hidden pages, grading/feedback options, and content editing options. When building a course, you may find it useful or necessary to try using your course as a student would, to help alleviate issues with […]

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Canvas Tools Navigating Canvas

Use the Canvas Dashboard

The Dashboard functions as a central hub of Canvas, allowing you to view and make changes to all of your courses. This section allows you to publish/unpublish courses and provides quick links to each of your courses’ announcements, assignments, discussions, and files. For instructors teaching multiple courses, this section will likely be the easiest way […]

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Canvas Tools Navigating Canvas

Use Browser Tabs and Shortcuts

When working on multiple courses, you can open multiple tabs in your browser and cut and paste between courses to save yourself some time. Directions Go to MSU Denver’s Faculty and Staff Hub. Click Canvas in the Teaching & Learning section. Log in to your Canvas Account. Select the Course you’d like to copy information from. Right-click (or control + click for Mac users) […]

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Canvas Tools Navigating Canvas

Edit Your Course Dashboard

Your course dashboard is a handy place to access all of your courses when you arrive in Canvas. However, too many courses can make navigation difficult. Thankfully, you can select what courses appear on your course dashboard. Directions Go to MSU Denver’s Faculty and Staff Hub. Click Canvas in the Teaching & Learning section. Log in to your Canvas Account. Click Courses from […]

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Import SCORM Files as Assignments into Canvas

A SCORM file is a .zip file of content that a publisher may provide for classroom use or that has been developed outside of Canvas. The following tutorial explains how to import SCORM files directly into Canvas as assignments. Before starting the steps below, you must first download the SCORM .zip files from the publisher […]