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  1. Tips & Best Practices for Setting Up Online Exams

    Tips: Exam Preparation Tricks for Upping Your Exam Integrity in Canvas Exam Policies to Know Tips: Exam Preparation Communicate We recommend the use of Canvas Announcements to communicate with your students about the exam Can...
  2. Adding a Different Time Window for Exceptions and Accessibility Accommodations

    For students with an approved extension of time or an officially approved accommodation for accessibility, you can add an additional due date and availability window in the "Assign to" area in a Canvas Assignment or Quiz. Step 1. Navigate to t...
  3. Adding Quiz Time For Accessibility Accommodations

    For students with officially approved extension of time accommodations, you can append the available time in a Canvas Quiz. The quiz must be published in order to access the extension of time feature. Note : The Extension School policy req...
  4. Canvas Scheduler

    Canvas Scheduler is part of the calendar and creates appointment groups (collection of individual appointments) that students can sign up for. You may use it to:  create office hours  schedule TA sessions  assign presentation times and host oth...
  5. Unpublished and Published Statuses

    As an instructor, you have the ability to release content to your students at your pace. Unpublished Gray icons indicate unpublished content. Unpublished content exists in a “draft state” and is invisible to students. Published Green i...
  6. Exam Language Tips

    To help you get started with creating clear directions for your students about the nuances of Canvas Quizzes, we've provided you with some base text that you can customize for your needs. General Canvas Directions Available from and Availa...
  7. Zoom links on your Canvas course site

    Don't post Zoom links anywhere Posting Zoom links on a Canvas Syllabus page (or inside of a syllabus) is prohibited for security reasons. More about Zoom Bombings .   Zoom is in the Canvas navigation A link to Zoom meetings is provided in th...
  8. Adding Extra Time to A Running Exam

    If you choose to add time to a student's exam due to a disruption, you can use the Canvas "Moderating This Quiz" feature to give extra time for timed exams. IMPORTANT NOTES : You can only extend the time while the student is still taking the ex...
  9. Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Engaging Diverse Learners

    UDL:   a framework to make learning accessible for all types of learners through multiple means of representation, action and expression, and engagement.  Unpacking the UDL Framework to Provide Multiple Means of: 1.  Engagement:  W...
  10. Group Projects and Collaborations with Student Groups

    Student groups can be used to set-up group projects.  They also give groups of students a space of their own to collaborate outside of the central course site. Setting Up the Groups Manually Make Groups and Add Students Link Student Grou...