Playlists

GETTING STARTED WITH CANVAS

Best Practices for the Start of the Semester

As you begin the semester with your Canvas course, take a look at these curated videos that answer some of the top questions we receive.


How to Edit Your Syllabus in Canvas		Building and Organizing Your Course in Canvas		Assessing in Canvas		Assignment Weights and Grading Schemes in Canvas

Enhancing the Texas A&M Template in Canvas

The TAMU template is already in your live Canvas course! Engage with these videos to learn about how you can make good use of it and enhance it according to your needs.

Moving a Homepage and Syllabus to New Course

Adding and Editing Homepage
Template Using HTML in Canvas

Adding Buttons to the Course
Homepage in Canvas

Moving Content from Spring to
Summer Courses in Canvas

TAMU Canvas Template Demo
Syllabus Page

TAMU Canvas Template Demo
Communities

Canvas-Led Trainings

The Canvas-Led Training is for all course instructors, teaching assistants, and staff who support teaching and learning at Texas A&M University. This training led by Instructure, is designed to link best practices and innovative technology applications to the Canvas learning environment. Each session is intended to be inclusive of the status of where you might be in your migration to Canvas. We offer insights and ideas to meet you where you are, wherever you are, in preparing your Canvas migration.


New to Canvas Canvas-Led Training		Advanced with Canvas Canvas-Led Training

ORCA

ORCA is a self-service tool that assists faculty in managing their course sections. Currently in ORCA faculty can create combined courses and add course associate roles.


ORCA Demo Section Merging Feature		ORCA Demo Member Management

New to Canvas Live Training

Never used the Canvas LMS before? No worries, these sequential training sessions will help get you started.


Building and Organizing Your Course in Canvas		Assessing in Canvas		Grading in Canvas

Advanced Canvas Live Training

Ready to take the next steps in building your courses in Canvas? This training series walks you through the next steps to innovating the digital learning environment in your classroom.


Course Design Best Practices		Canvas Course Design for Student Success		Assessment Options for Student Success

DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Tools For Teaching Remotely

Administering a remote course is a different experience requiring a different design than a face-to-face course. Whether preparing to teach a future remote course or adjusting to circumstances which require you to switch to a remote course last minute, these videos can help you learn about and use applicable tools. All the tools mentioned have Canvas integrations.


Proctoring with Respondus Lockdown Browser in Canvas		How to Hold Office Hours in yout Zoom Classroom		How to Take Attendance With Zoom		Mediasite for Canvas		Using Google Drive in Canvas

STORAGE OPTIONS IN CANVAS

Content Storage in Canvas

Canvas has a one gig limit on storage for each shell, with that being said it may be advantageous to review additional storage options as you prepare content. This series reviews the different storage options available for content storage and organization.

Mediasite for Canvas

Using Office 365 in Canvas

Adding a Google Drive file to a Canvas module

Why use Google Drive?

Adding a Google Drive file to the Rich Content Editor

Authorizing Google Drive LTI 1.3 in Canvas

GRADING IN CANVAS

Gradebook in Canvas

This series demonstrates the gradebook process in Canvas from beginning to end, including how to set up, navigate and enhance the gradebook, enter grades, submit grades to Howdy.

Creating and Editing Assignment Groups

Assignment Group Rules

Late and Missing Policies in Canvas

Grade Schemes in Canvas

Posting Grades in Canvas

Enter Zeroes for Canvas Gradebook

Entering Zeroes in Excel for Canvas Gradebook

Total Grade Column in Canvas

Verifying the Unposted Grade Column in Canvas Gradebook

Overriding Grades in Canvas

Apply Score to Ungraded feature

Assessing in Canvas

This series demonstrates different ways you can assess your students in Canvas through assignments, assignment feedback, and delivering exams.

Rubrics in Canvas

Speedgrader Overview

Assignment Feedback in Canvas

Moderating a Quiz in Canvas

Ensuring Academic Integrity

Proctoring with Respondus
Lockdown Browser in Canvas

Using Question Banks in Canvas

Using Turnitin in Canvas

ASSESSMENTS AND GROUP WORK IN CANVAS

Assessing in Canvas

This series demonstrates different ways you can assess your students in Canvas through assignments, assignment feedback, and delivering exams.

Rubrics in Canvas

Speedgrader Overview

Assignment Feedback in Canvas

Moderating a Quiz in Canvas

Ensuring Academic Integrity

Proctoring with Respondus
Lockdown Browser in Canvas

Using Question Banks in Canvas

Using Turnitin in Canvas

Groupwork in Canvas

It's All About Groupwork! Watch this series to learn more about how to set Canvas groups to organize students into groups for projects and assignments. Groups allows a seamless communication between students and can help students master the concepts of a course and learn from each other.

Adjusting An Individual Grade within a Group Graded Assignment

Applications for Groups in Canvas

Creating Self-Assign Groups

Creating Groups Automatically

Creating Groups Manually

Grading Group Work on a Group Basis

Grading Group work on an Individual Basis

Peer Review in Canvas

THIRD-PARTY TOOLS

Third-Party Tools in Canvas

Within Texas A&M University Learning Management System, we have several third-party tools that optimize the teaching and learning experience for both course instructors and students. The trainings below highlight best practices when utilizing them.

Using Google Drive

Using Google Drive in Canvas

Google Apps in Canvas

Proctoring with Respondus
Lockdown Browser in Canvas

Ally in Canvas

Mediasite for Canvas

Using Office 365 in Canvas

Using Turnitin in Canvas

Gradescope in Canvas

Zoom Quick Tips

As you prepare to teach using Zoom, check out this playlist for helpful best practices for using Zoom.


How to Authenticate Students in Your Classroom		Preventing Zoombombing		How to Mute Participants in Your Classroom		How to Take Attendance with Zoom		How to Create and Launch a Poll in Your Virtual Classroom		How to Hold Office Hours in Your Zoom Classroom

New Quizzes

New Quizzes is a new assessment engine built to meet the assessment needs in your classroom today and in the future. Leveraging modern technologies, New Quizzes features include a series of feature enhancements and new item types, and bring workflow improvements to what is commonly encountered in Classic Quizzes.


How to Use New Quizzes in Canvas		Converting Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes		Quiz Moderation in New Quizzes		Reports and Regrade Options in New Quizzes

Content Storage in Canvas

View this series of videos that showcase the storage options available to you within the Canvas learning management system.


Mediasite for Canvas		Using Office 365 in Canvas		Using Google Drive		Using Google Drive in Canvas

STUDENT RESOURCES IN CANVAS

Student Perspective - Getting Started in Canvas

Texas A&M University is committed to serving our students with the highest quality instruction from our talented faculty. Below is a curated list of videos provided from Canvas to help students navigate getting started in their Canvas courses.

Canvas Overview

Calendar Overview

Canvas Student App

User Settings and Profile

User Notification Preferences

Student Perspective - Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes, Grades and Files in Canvas

As we continue to innovate the digital learning environment at Texas A&M University, take a moment to view what the Canvas A&M template looks like in the student view for various frequently used tools.

Student Gradebook View

Using the What-if Calculator in Canvas

Reviewing Grade Details as a Student

Assignments Overview

Discussions Overview

Quizzes Overview

Files Overview