Faculty Development
CITI provides links to resources on various topics related to teaching, learning, assessment, technology, instructional design and more.
Canvas
Canvas Quick Tips
- Creating a Group Set in your Canvas course
- Create conferences in a course
- Import QTI Chapter Test Banks into Canvas
- Muting or Un-muting assignments in Canvas
- Add a different due date or availability to an assignment for a student(s)
- How do I copy content from another Canvas course?
- Setting Canvas Notifications
- How to Create a Profile in Canvas
- Canvas Calendar Keeps Us Organized!
- The Canvas Mobile App: Try It Out!
- Creating Modules in Canvas
- Canvas Help Really HELPS!
- Students LOVE Modules!
- The Syllabus- How to Upload it into Canvas
- Classroom instruction
- Instruction with technology
- Course design: online/blended/face to face
- Midterm Assessment Plans
- Customized Topics
Tools You Can Use
Professional Development
- Faculty Focus Institutional Membership
- Teaching & Learning Travel and Project Development Grants
- Department Chair Resource Manual
Beyond WSSU
New Faculty Symposium
- Twice per month throughout the academic year
- Invited speakers
Online Professional Development
- Workshops
- Institutes
- Resources
- TED Talks
This section contains specific “How To…” information on Canvas relevant to building a course and other information. Scroll down for various “how to” topics, downloadable documents, and videos.
This is for course shells (eg Sandboxes or committee or department shells) that are not registered courses for the term.
Instructors can request a course shell by logging into RAMSupport and selecting Canvas request. It will send you to the Canvas request page.
Choose the item at the bottom of the menu “Request Canvas Course Shell for Non-Banner Course .”
This page will guide you for the information needed to fulfill the request.
This feature is great for providing updates, greetings and even short lectures for students.
How do I record a video using the Rich Content Editor as a student?
Steps:
- Open Rich Content Editor
Open the Rich Content Editor using one of the Canvas features which support the Editor.(the editor opens when a page or assignment is edited)
- Open Media Comment Tool
Click the Media icon.
- Select Video Recording Option
If your computer has a webcam, Canvas will select your default camera automatically. However, if you have multiple webcams, you can select your webcam by clicking the Webcam button.
- Select Audio Option
Canvas will also select your default microphone. However, if you have multiple microphones, you can select your preferred microphone by clicking the Mic button.
- Start Recording
To begin recording video, click the Start Recording button.
- Stop Recording
The time [1] and the volume level [2] of your recording will continuously update as you record. To stop recording, click the Finish button [3].
- Review Recording
To review your video, click the Play button [1]. To save your video, click the text field [2], enter a title for your video, then click the Save button [3]. To re-record your video, click the ;Start Over button [4].
- View Video
View your video automatically inserted into the Rich Content Editor.
- Save Changes
Quizzes.Next is an assessment engine that integrates with Canvas as an LTI tool and replaces the classic quizzes functionality currently existing in Canvas. It is new to Canvas this year.
- Instructors can use Quizzes.Next to create assessments using a variety of questions types. Quizzes.Next assessments display as assignments in the Assignments page and can be duplicated.
- Students can take Quizzes.Next assessments within their Canvas courses.
Quick Tip: keep the Availability Date for the assignment open in Canvas.
If you work with Turnitin and your students are having problems accessing your comments on assignments, the following might help.
If you’re making annotations through the Turnitin Feedback Studio, students will actually have to open the Feedback Studio themselves to view those comments. They can do this by clicking on their originality score that appears in the Turnitin submission area of the assignment page.
To access this from Canvas, you will need to keep the assignment lock date open (“Available Until…”) so that students can access the Turnitin platform.
Since the assignment is through Turnitin, the “Available Until” date set in Canvas actually does not affect the assignment’s availability. Turnitin has its own settings that allow you to make sure that students are unable to submit late work.
- In Course Navigation, click the Grades link.
- Click the Export button, then click the CSV File link.
When the export is completed, Canvas will download the CSV file automatically to your computer.
Please Note: If you navigate away from the page during the export, the CSV file will appear as a previous download in the Grade book export drop-down menu so it can be downloaded again. The Grade book will show the date and time you requested the export.
If you made changes to the Grade book after exporting a file and want to export a new file, click the CSV File link again.
Grade book export files include the date and time of the download to differentiate between multiple exports. The export filename format is YYYY-MM-DDTHHMM, followed by the course name.
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A pop up window will appear. Select “Open” or “Save” file to your computer or a USB. (see below)
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To send the file, simply attach as email to the sender
Download document to show you "How to Export Grades into an Excel Spreadsheett".
