Yes, the storage quota for a Canvas course is 6GB. You will be prevented from uploading files to the course once it is over quota. View your course's Quota Use (%) by opening Files and looking in the bottom left corner.
CETL cannot add users to current "for-credit" classes in Canvas. "for-credit" enrollments must flow directly from UI's central system. Contact your Departmental Scheduler and ask them to request adding additional user(s) to your Canvas "for-credit" course via the Classroom Scheduling request form. See Enrollments & Courses (Instructor Help) for more info.
CDAR Notetakers, and others by request, can be added to a Canvas course as Participants which appear as Students in the Grades view. Confirm the individual is enrolled as a Participant by viewing their status in the People view.
No. The University of Idaho requires an active UofI computer account and DUO to access the Canvas server. Consider using the free version of Canvas if you wish to have non-UofI individuals participate in a Canvas course.
Go to New Analytics in your Canvas course (see course left menu)
Use the Canvas Announcement tool for periodic correspondence with students in a class. Not only does it email all students in a Canvas course, but also posts an archive of these announcements in the course for future reference.
Announcements show by default at the top of a course homepage. If they are not showing, follow these steps to turn them back on:
Go to course Settings
Scroll to the bottom of Course Details and click on More Options
Check the box next to Show recent announcements on Course Home Page
Click Update Course Details
To modify the general settings for the course announcements, go to Settings(left menu) > More Options(bottom of page)
Canvas InBox
The Canvas Inbox functions as a simple, internal communication system for instructors and students so check the Inbox regularly for messages. You may change your notification settings to have Canvas email the Inbox messages to you by going to Account > Notifications.
The Canvas Inbox uses a Sent filter to show communication started by you. Replies between you and the other person show as a standard back-and-forth thread like email. We do not recommend that you rely solely on the Canvas Sent filter for archival records of your Canvas communications.
The Course Summary displayed directly beneath the Course Syllabus is automatically generated by Canvas based on course assignments and events. Items within the Course Summary can only be changed by editing or deleting the assignments or events. All assignments/events (unpublished and published, with due dates and without due dates) are listed in the Course Summary.
If you wish to exclude a specific assignment from showing in this list, apply a due date that is earlier than your course's official start date.
If you wish to remove the Course Summary from view, Edit the Course Syllabus and look for Show Course Summary. Uncheck the box next to it.
Copy all Course Content from a past course into your current course--all Rubrics automatically import with the rest of the Course Content. Do not import the same content into a course more than once as this process is additive.
Copy Specific Course Content from a past course into your current course. Select Specific Content and then check the box(es) next to the Rubric(s) you wish to import.
Turnitin Originality is available s a "Similarity Detection Tool" for student-submitted work through the Canvas Assignments tool. You MUST enable Turnitin for a Canvas Assignment BEFORE students submit their work. This allows your students to agree to terms regarding the scanning their work. Use SpeedGrader to view Turnitin Originality reports for student submissions.
Turnitin's AI writing detection report shows the possible percentage of a document that may have been generated by AI tools. Submissions must have at least 300 words of prose text in long-form writing to be given an AI score--shorter submissions are not scored. We advise you to only use this information to start further discussions with your students. Read more about AI Writing Detection.
To allow students to work on the same file in Canvas, go to Settings > Navigation and drag the Collaborations tool to the upper block. Press Save. Collaborations should now appear on the course left menu.
Turn off the emoji button in your Canvas courses by going to Settings > Feature Options > Emojis in Submission Comments.
Troubleshooting Assignments
Canvas does not give you the ability to add an extra assignment attempt for just one student or to delete a submission. Instead, edit the assignment settings to allow more attempts for everyone in the class or have the student email you the file and manually enter the resulting score into the Gradebook.
In the case of a student posting inappropriate or private material, REQUIRING content removal, please contact canvashelp@uidaho.edu for assistance.
Follow the steps below to assign different due dates and/or availability dates to an assignment:
Edit an Assignment and note the Assign to: card assigned to Everyone at the bottom. (don't change this)
Select the + Add button to add an additional Assign to: card.
Select the desired student or section name. This action causes the first card's Assign to field to change from Everyone to Everyone Else.
Enter the from date, until date, and due date and then Save.
Open a browser window in Incognito and run Canvas there. If this works, there is probably a browser extension causing a conflict with SpeedGrader. The solution is to load Canvas in a different browser or identify the problematic extension and disable it.
If you restrict the types of files allowed, make sure your approval list is formatted correctly (e.g., doc,docx,pdf,txt ). Separate each file type by comma. Do not include periods or spaces. Provide multiple versions when appropriate (e.g., list both "doc" and "docx").
No, Turnitin Originality is only run through Canvas Assignments.
Turnitin, LLC offers a different product for checking manuscripts and dissertations named iThenticate. Please contact Stephanie Thomas (slthomas@uidaho.edu) at the UofI Graduate School for help in accessing iThenticate.
Quizzes
Quizzes (Create)
Randomize quiz question answers by
checking the box located in the Quiz Details section to shuffle answers for all questions in a quiz. Make sure order is not required for answers (e.g., Change "None of the above" to "None of these answers is correct").
Allow a student to take a quiz at a different time than the rest of the class:
Edit the quiz and look for an Assign to: card at the bottom of the page. This card will be assigned to Everyone. (don't change this)
Select the + Add button to add an additional Assign to: card.
In the new card's Assign to field, select the student or section's name from the dropdown list. Note: After selecting the name of the student or section, the first card's Assign to field will change from Everyone to Everyone Else.
Enter from and until available dates as well as a due date.
"Roll Call" is built-in to Canvas and enabled at the UI, but is not turned on by default. Go to Settings | Navigation and drag the this item up into the displayed items area and Save. This tool requires manual attendance marking by the instructor.
Help for the Canvas Roll Call Attendance Tool.
"Online Attendance" is located under New Analytics.
This tool displays the online attendance for students in a Canvas course. Help for the Canvas Online Attendance Tool.
Create a daily Canvas Quiz in Canvas which is opened at the beginning of class and closed after a few minutes. The quiz would have 1 question whose correct answer would be, say, a random number given in class. Note: The caveat to students’ self-marking is attendance proxy, where students sign in for other students—forward the QR code or text the Canvas quiz answer to their classmates who are not in attendance. There is very little that can be done to prevent this.
Use a Canvas Page as a Wiki. Each Canvas Page can be edited by multiple authors when its settings are changed to allow anyone to edit. Note that the Pages tool doesn't track participation and contribution statistics.
Create assignment columns for "non-submission" assessments. Note: Quizzes cannot be assigned a point value. The total value for quizzes is calculated directly from the points for each quiz question. This is why an assignment--rather than a quiz--must be used to create a "no submission" column.
Go to Settings(left menu) > More Options(bottom of page)
Yes. Select Apply Filters > Submissions > Has Ungraded Submissions in the Gradebook. Undo by clicking on the "x" next to Has ungraded submissions(highlighted in yellow below).
Yes. In the gradebook, click on the assignment for a student who elected not to take it and mark it as Excused.
Alternative Method: For one grade column, you may fill in zeros for everyone that does not have a grade. Click on the three dots to the right of the grade column title and select Set Default Grade. (DO NOT check the box to overwrite the grades you have already given.)
Go to Settings > Navigation and drag Perusall up to your course's "available" block. Press Save. This will place a link to Perusall in your course's left navigation menu.
If something in Canvas is not behaving correctly, try fixing the issue by taking the following actions, one at a time, until the problem resolves:
Update your browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) to the newest version. If you are unable to update to the newest version, install/use an alternative browser.
Make sure your computer has the latest updates installed.
Look for a three-line menu toggle on the top left of your course. This is used to show/hide the course menu. Press this to toggle the menu on/off.
Restore items in a Canvas course by typing /undelete after the course ID in the URL (i.e. course address). For example: https://canvas.uidaho.edu/courses/####/undelete, where #### is the unique number for your course in Canvas.
The Module must be Published for content connected to the Module to function for students. Publish a Module by clicking its "circle with a slash" icon to turn it green.
Each left menu item only shows for students when containing content students will be able to see. If the menu item has no content, it will not appear in View as Student.
Panopto is a Video Streaming Platform integrated into Canvas. It provides a reliable, accessible solution for video (and audio) delivery for you and your students.
We recommend using Chrome rather than Safari for Zoom.
If a student adds a different email address as the Canvas "default", Zoom will not be able to authenticate properly. The student must fix this by resetting their "default" email address back to their UI account (via star icon).
How to login to Zoom.
At Sign In, all users should select SSO(circled in red below). If prompted for a domain, enter uidaho.
Fill out the full UI email address and follow the prompts to sign in.
In Zoom, click on Share Screen. (Ask the host to give you permission to share your screen, if needed.)
Choose Share Your Desktop
If prompted, click on Open System Preferences to go to your Mac's Security & Privacy settings
Choose Screen Recording
Check the box next to Zoom
Close the Window
Choose Share Your Desktop again
Click Share
The Collaboration & Classroom Technology Services (CCTS) team, which is part of the Office of Information Technology (OIT), supports the Zoom platform and has the most accurate information for all questions related to Zoom at the UI. Please visit Collaboration & Classroom Technology Services (CCTS) or email ccts@uidaho.edu for assistance.
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