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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 communi...
  2. Tools to Extend Canvas

    Tools:  Discussion - Annotation - Chat - Peer Review - Math, Science, Polling - Course Admin Want to do something in your course but not sure which tool can help? Here are the key features of some commonly used tools that can help enhance t...
  3. Change An Individual Assignment's Grade Posting Policy

    To release grades and comment immediately after , you need to select a "automatic" grade posting policy per individual assignment (only needed if course posting policy is set to manual). To hide grades while grading , you need to select a ...
  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 o...
  5. Linking HOLLIS resources to Canvas

    Leverage the Harvard Library resources for your students and respect copyright policy. Link to individual Harvard-licensed resources in Canvas modules, pages, assignments and discussions . It is the safest and best route because Harvard has alread...
  6. Ed Discussion Startup & Resources

    Once Ed Discussion has been installed on your Canvas course site, it will be visible in the Canvas left navigation.  Students will not have access to content until you activate it. Activation is quick - follow the steps below.  Ed Discussi...
  7. About Ed Discussion

    Ed Discussion is a threaded Q&A-style tool that is easy to use in your Canvas course site. Fill out a Canvas course site request to have Ed Discussion installed on your course site or self install the tool by selecting Hello Harvard from the ...
  8. Accessibility in Canvas

    Canvas Accessibility Checker Using Canvas image options Alt text and decorative images Link text Heading tags Emphasis in text Color contrast Lists- Bullet Points & Numbering Formatting tables PDFs and documents Acc...
  9. Add Content in Canvas

    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 . Add content to your page Add Files Add Im...
  10. Instructor Guide to Setting Up an Ungraded Kialo Discussion

    Follow these steps to add an ungraded Kialo discussion to your CANVAS classroom. STEP 1 Go to the Modules page in your CANVAS classroom and use the “+” icon to create an External Tool connection to Kialo Edu. If ...