Canvas

Personalize the UIW Canvas Blueprint Training: Instructions for editing your Canvas course blueprint items.

Canvas Basics Training: A simple introduction to Canvas and its basic features.

Build Your Course Training: Complete guide to building a Canvas course.

Canvas Handouts:

• Canvas Highlights and Best Practices
• Canvas User Roles
• Build a Course - Step 1 Organization and Settings
• Build a Course - Step 2 Edit and Build Content Areas
• Build a Course - Step 3 Prepare Graded Assignments
• Build a Course - Step 4 Create Modules and Structure
• Build a Course - Step 5 Finalize and Publish
• Using Zoom in Canvas
  • Check out a video demonstration of the Zoom Integration!

• Sharing View Only PowerPoints

Canvas Professional Development Series from UIW

To view an entire playlist of Canvas tutorials from UIW's Center for Teaching and Learning, check out the Canvas Hours channel on YouTube!

Canvas Hours Channel on YouTube

Want to learn more about notifications, announcements, chat, discussions, collaborations, and conferences within Canvas? View an Instructure-led session on Canvacs communication strategies...

Canvas Communication Strategies

Watch this recording to learn how to setup your letter grade Grading Schema, control your gradebook settings, and build the Assignments page to create your gradebook...

Grades Setup and Graded Assignments

Instructure Vimeo Channel - Video Tutorials

Skip the Canvas Guides list, go directly to Instructure's Vimeo channel

Video Tutorials on Vimeo

Direct link to Canvas Guides

Canvas Guides

Video Tutorials for Getting Started

Canvas Guides - Video Tutorials

Canvas Basic Tutorials [text and pic]

General Overview Tutorials

Basic Canvas Overview Tutorials

Canvas Instructor Guides

Tutorials by Feature

Canvas Tutorials by Feature

Canvas Troubleshooting Guide

Canvas Troubleshooting Guide

Growing with Canvas will walk you through the basic features of Canvas and will give you a leg up when building your course. Finish the course for certification.

Growing with Canvas Course

A sandbox is a new, empty course shell created with you as the teacher. Use your sandbox to learn, experiment, or build an entire course. Later you can copy any and all of your work to your live course.

Request a Sandbox Course

Need face-to-face instruction even if it's virtual? We're here for you. Reach out to the instructional design professional for your school or department from the list located in the right side bar of this page.

Canvas Course Access Policy

• All instructors of record and students are given access through Banner – Canvas imports four times every day.
• Users added through Banner cannot be edited or removed by a Teacher, any adds or role changes must be processed through Banner.
• Manual adds/removals of any other roles are managed by the course Teacher. Roles an instructor can add/remove include:

1. 1. Teacher : Most editing and viewing access of all the roles. A user with Teacher role can add, edit, and delete content, manage student grades, publish/unpublish the course, change the settings, and add/remove users.
   2. Colleague: A custom role for UIW faculty who share their courses but are not official teachers. This role gives access to view and edit content but not grades and will not notify the user of grading To Dos.
   3. Teaching Assistant : Similar to the Teacher role but is unable to manage Sections, final grades, Learning Outcomes, Observer connections to students add/remove users.
   4. Designer : Can edit and add content but is unable to access student grades. It is a great option for collaborating on course materials while protecting student privacy.
   5. Affiliate: A custom view only role for users contracted to provide a service to UIW, such as closed captioning for student support.
   6. Observer : View only role. Enrolling a guest with an observer role allows access to the course without being able to affect any course data or participation. When paired with a student, this role cannot submit work on behalf of the students they observe, but they can see student grades, assignments and events, and course interactions. Instructors can generate a pairing code for a student or link a student to an observer in a Canvas course.

How do I generate a pairing code?

How do I link a student to an observer?

Whether it's by chat or calling in, you can always get help with Canvas any time of the day or night. To get help, find the help icon in the bottom of your Canvas' left Navigation menu. Call (844) 384-5742 at any time for help, or see the following links for visual instructions.

• Instructors/Teachers/Course Facilitators: How do I get help with Canvas as an Instructor?
  • Chat with Canvas support (Instructor)

Check out what new feature updates will be rolling out in Canvas.

Upcoming Canvas Updates

Get familiar with Canvas in minutes.

Visit Canvas Cards

Get stuck while you're in Canvas? Help is at the bottom of the left-hand global menu inside Canvas.

Whether it's by chat or calling in, you can always get help with Canvas any time of the day or night. To get help, find the help icon in the bottom of your Canvas' left Navigation menu. Call (844) 384-5742 at any time for help, or see the following links for visual instructions.

• Students: How do I get help with Canvas as a student?
  • Chat with Canvas support (student)

The Immersive Reader is a free tool, developed by Microsoft, that uses proven techniques to improve reading and focus for people regardless of their age or ability. Use the Immersive Reader in Word, Outlook, Teams, and many other Microsoft apps to have text read to you, or displayed a number of different ways.

In Canvas

You can use the Immersive Reader in Canvas. If you do not see the immersive reader button at the top right of your Canvas course window, you can turn it on. Click on your account button in Canvas. Click on Settings and scroll down the page to Feature Options. Search for Immersive Reader and change the State to a green checkmark instead of a red "x" by clicking on it.

Click here for Immersive Reader Instructions.

Click here to learn how to find the Immersive Reader.

Please view this short video to see the amazing features of the Immersive Reader.

The LockDown Browser, by Respondus, is a custom browser that can prevent cheating while taking online tests. It works by locking your computer, so that you are not able to use the menu or web address line. You will not be able to use the function keys or shortcuts and you will not be able to save screenshots or print.

Important: The link to download the browser is unique to UIW. No other download will work. Download the browser here.

When the Monitor is required, you will be required to allow your face to be recorded while you take the test. You will be required to show your ID, and record the environment where you are taking the test. The video will be available to your instructor, it will include warnings that point out any time you look away from the screen or leave your chair.

Check out the Student Resources at Respondus. You will find helpful videos and Student Quick Start Guides.

Respondus Resources

Download and save these Test Taking Tips provided by Respondus

Test Taking Tips

Courses: 2GB of storage per course, Canvas courses are ideal for storing word documents, pdfs, and images.

Personal: Currently, each student and instructor has 52.4MB of storage. Files that students upload for a graded assignment are stored in their files area, but do not count against their storage limit.

However, if students are uploading a file as attachment, say, in a discussion thread, these attachments will count against their storage limit as Canvas does not consider an attachment as an uploaded assignment.

Larger media file types like audio, video, and larger Powerpoint files should be stored in Stream, OneDrive, or on a private YouTube channel and embedded in your course.

For more information on how to store media in OneDrive, Microsoft Stream, or YouTube, please refer to this page, under Storage.

Creating and using video

When using the audio/video feedback feature inside of Canvas, we recommend you limit your recording to 15 minutes per individual media recording.

UIW Faculty on Canvas

Our Process

To provide UIW faculty, staff and students access to a modern and agile learning management system (LMS), Instructional Technology Service conducted a year-long pilot of the Canvas by Instructure. Canvas is the current industry leader in the LMS marketplace and offers UIW faculty, staff, and students a robust mobile experience, seamless integration with third-party applications, easy reporting capabilities, and customer-friendly support services.

Eighty faculty members taught their courses in Canvas during the 2020 academic year. Over 1800 students participated in the pilot. Results from surveys distributed at the end of each semester showed that both faculty and students found Canvas easier to learn, easier to use, and better support for teaching and learning. UIW administration reviewed the survey data and the merits of the learning management system and made the recommendation to move forward with the adoption of Canvas as the university’s learning management system beginning in the summer term of the 2021 academic year.

Master courses will need to be migrated manually. Fill out the Migration Request Form using the button below if you would like your Master course moved to Canvas.

Master Course Migration Request Form

All Blackboard Organizations have been migrated out of Blackboard. There are several platforms at UIW that can host organizations in addition to Canvas and the needs of organizations are different from courses, so ITS will work with organization leaders to help them determine the best platform for them.

For questions about migrating your organization from Blackboard, please contact Iris Solcher about migrating your Blackboard Organization.

Contact Iris Solcher