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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 the course to send the announce...
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You can export a Canvas course to: give to someone in another Canvas account upload to another institution's account at a later date create a copy as a backup on your local computer You can import an export file into Canvas at any...
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Gather Study Lounge Best Practices Guide (Harvard DCE Pilot) Hello! Thank you for piloting the Gather Study Lounge. The Gather Study Lounge is a tool built into your course’s Canvas site that gives your students a space to meet outside of clas...
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Last Updated: 02/27/2026
in Web Conference
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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Last Updated: 05/21/2025
in T&L Immersive Classroom
Immersive Classroom Activity Types Do you do activities or discussions in your live class? Are your async students left watching your live class with no way to participate? Or have you been building alternative versions for async students...
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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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Use Canvas Quizzes for all assessments Learning assessments, both graded and ungraded, in the form of high stakes exams, low stake quizzes, practice tests and course level surveys can be administered right in your Canvas course site using the C...
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In the Canvas Gradebook, you can apply a selected grade posting policy for all course assignments. Posting policies can be set to automatic or manual.
Set a Course Grading Policy
Post Grades for Students to View
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We've curated tools from the FeedbackFruits suite to help create engaging and meaningful learning experiences with less work for you, from the setup to the grading.
Once an activity is set up, you can be high or low touch as you want. Feed...
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About Proctorio Profiles Create a Proctorio Profile About Proctorio Profiles Proctorio Profiles allow you to quickly set your preferred Proctorio exam and behavior settings for all your Proctorio exams or quizzes. Make sure you are...