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Canvas provides various tools for managing notifications, renaming courses, reusing content, adding images to quizzes, recording interactive whiteboard sessions, viewing student scores, and accessing old course content. Specific functions include unpublishing a course to stop notifications, renaming course cards, copying quiz questions into a Word document to reuse, uploading images for quizzes, using feedback for incorrect quiz answers, recording student whiteboard marks using Screencast, viewing assignment scores in Speedgrader, and accessing old course pages by navigating to the All Courses section.

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Canvas Q and A

Canvas provides various tools for managing notifications, renaming courses, reusing content, adding images to quizzes, recording interactive whiteboard sessions, viewing student scores, and accessing old course content. Specific functions include unpublishing a course to stop notifications, renaming course cards, copying quiz questions into a Word document to reuse, uploading images for quizzes, using feedback for incorrect quiz answers, recording student whiteboard marks using Screencast, viewing assignment scores in Speedgrader, and accessing old course pages by navigating to the All Courses section.

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Canvas Q&A

Question Answer
I get notifications from an old Canvas course. How do -From your dashboard homepage, navigate to the gray
I get that course erased so that I stop getting toolbar on the left-hand side.
notifications? -Click “Courses” and then click yellow star the to left of
the course in question. Now it will not be on your
dashboard.
-Click into the course.
-In the upper right-hand corner, click “Unpublish” under
“Course Status”

If a button on the left-hand toolbar is gray can I still Yes, “grayed-out” buttons on the toolbar are still
access it? accessible. They are gray because they are not accessible
to the “students” enrolled in your course.

How do I rename the courses on my dashboard? -Navigate to your dashboard


-On the course card click the 3 vertical dots in the upper
right-hand corner
-Under “Nickname” retype the new name
-Click the blue “Apply” button

Can I reuse a quiz from a previous year? Unfortunately, quizzes cannot be reused or saved.
Howard County did not purchase this feature. If you use
the same quiz material each year, you could write it in a
Word Document and copy and paste the questions from
there.

How do I add an image to a Canvas Quiz? You will need to upload the image using the “Images”
tab on the right-hand toolbar.

You are not able to edit the image once it is uploaded, it


will upload the way you have it.

When would I use Feedback on a Quiz? You can use feedback to provide a brief narrative for
wrong answers. You are able to explain why the answer
is incorrect or include any other important information
for students to know.

Can I record marks made from Interactive Yes! Students can write on your whiteboard and it can be
Smartboard tools by using Screencast? recorded via “Screencast-o-matic”. Be sure to start the
screencast before students begin writing/drawing on the
board. When you are finished recording, you’ll need to

click this button at the top of the gray toolbar.


The message (shown on the left) will pop up and you’ll
need to click “Cancel” so the screen doesn’t get cleared.
Then you’ll be able to stop the Screencast with
everything recorded.

Is Speedgrader applicable to all Canvas tabs? Not all Canvas information is/needs to be graded. For
example, Announcements, Pages, and Homepages
cannot be assigned values or grades. Speedgrader is
applicable to Discussion, Assignments, and Quizzes.

How am I able to view a report of all students’ scores After selecting the assignment, quiz, etc. and opening
after applying Speedgrader?
Speedgrader, you will see this button in the upper
left-hand corner. After you click the button you will see
a list of the students’ names as well as their grades for
each assigned and graded task.

Do students have the same “Inbox” icon and Yes, students can send and receive emails through
notification system through Canvas Conversations? Canvas Conversations in the same way that you can.

Are Canvas Conversations emails sent individually or Canvas Conversations can be sent to multiple people at a
is everyone attached able to see all the other time. When you send a mass email, the names of the
recipients? other recipients will be hidden to the individuals getting
the email.

How do I access old pages from a previous Canvas


course? 1)Access from the left-handed toolbar
2) Scroll down to All Courses
3) Click into the previous course that has the content
you’d like to copy
4) Copy the information that you need
5) Go back to the new course you wish to add the old
information to
6) Paste the information in the new location

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