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  1. Teaching with Immersive Classroom Activity Features

    Immersive Classroom Activities The Immersive Classroom uses smart technology to auto-generate discussion boards or polls right where your async student need them. There's no need for advance set up, so you have complete flexibility to adapt...
  2. 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 Avai...
  3. Teaching Your Asynchronous Students

    Teaching Your Asynchronous Students At Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, we have courses in which all online students are synchronous and a few courses with all asynchronous students. We also have courses that have both asynchrono...
  4. Yellowdig Resources

    Basic How To Guides Advance Features & FAQs Share with your student the Yellowdig How to and Support Guides in the Student Pocket Guide.  Basic How To Guides Posting and Commenting Pinning a Post to Top Search...
  5. Content Link Error Notification

    This setting alerts you when a student clicks a link to unpublished content, content with permission errors, or a broken link. Step 1. Click "Account on the global navigation menu and select "Notifications". Step 2. Locate "Alerts" ...
  6. Building an Exam in Canvas? Use New Quizzes!

        From the Quizzes page, click the button for "+ Quiz".  In the dialog box, choose "New Quizzes" and click the "submit" button.  Enter your exam name and click the "build" button to start adding questions to your exam. ...
  7. Filter and Sort in Gradebook

    You can filter and sort columns in the Gradebook according to your preference.  The option to filter columns affects all assignments within the filter.  You can also have a preset arrangement or manually arrange columns. ...
  8. Unpublished and Published Statuses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 Unpublished Gray icons indicate unpublished content. Unpublished content exists in a “draft state” and is invisible to students.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...
  9. View a Course as a Test Student Using Student View

    Student View lets you experience your course the way that your students do.  You will see only what you, as the instructor, allow your students to see. Notes: Each Canvas course has a separate Test Student account. Whenever you move to a ...
  10. Poll Everywhere - Web Version

    Poll Everywhere allows instructors to run polls at any time for class use. The web version has no built-in grading features and does not require students to log in via their HarvardKey to respond.  Harvard Poll Everywhere Acc...