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Alternatives to Traditional Exams Purpose: Alternative assessments can foster deeper student engagement, real-world skill-building, and more accurate representations of what students know and can do, especially in the age of AI. To make...
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Last Updated: 02/27/2026
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If you've used Zoom to teach at another Harvard School, or another institution, you'll notice we do some things a bit differently here. Even if you have taught at DCE, policies and procedures are continuously evolving. Getting into Your Online ...
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A rushed or incomplete course copy can result in broken links, incorrect dates, missing content, and a confusing student experience throughout the term.
Taking a few minutes now to copy your course correctly will save you and your students...
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Organize assignments and set assignment weights for final grade calculations. This option assigns a weight to each assignment group, not the assignments themselves. Important - you must enter in "0 points" for any missing student submission i...
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What to know
Canvas content creation works similarly across all areas of the site where there is a rich content editor.
Tip: to revert to a previous version of a page, visit our guide on Pages revision .
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Easily integrate FeedbackFruits into your Canvas assignment. Once integrated, you can also take advantage of FeedbackFruits' grade passback to the Canvas grade book.
Step 1.
Create a Canvas Assignment.
Step 2.
Name th...
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Create new announcement
Go to the announcements page
Click the “add announcement” button on the top right of the page
Add content
Write a title and content for the announcement
Select whom in...
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Communication
Use Canvas Announcements to get class-wide information in front of your students in a myriad of ways. Announcements will appear on your course site, and in the student dashboard, notify students via th...
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Last Updated: 06/15/2026
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Updated June 9th 2026
General
Accessibility
Hosts and Co-Hosts
Apps
Video, Effects, and Virtual Background
Share Screen
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We cannot create course sites before the Extension and Summer Schools have set up the course catalog and registrar system. You can create a sandbox site yourself by setting up an outside Instructure Canvas account and build out things th...