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How do I PUBLISH MY COURSE then students can see it?

By default, your course site is unavailable to students until yous "publish" it. Once your grade is published, students will exist able to view and collaborate with the content y'all've created in your course.

1. Navigate to your grade "Abode" folio.
   
2. Discover the "Course Condition" fix of menu items (typically found at the correct).
   Click thePublish  button. Your form tin now be seen by enrolled students.

How do I get a new Canvass Course?

You lot volition see a link/button to asking a Canvas class from the Sail website homepage hither: world wide web.cmu.edu/sail/

• Y'all can also navigate direct to the online grade request form.
• Note, we maintain the elevation-level www.cmu.edu/canvas/ webpage to provide y'all with timely announcements about the state of Sheet and/or the online grade asking form (eastward.g., downtimes)

When will your grade be created after submitting the request?

For courses listed in S3 with yous as the instructor of tape:

• Upon submitting the Canvas course request class, you should notice that the Canvas grade is created instantaneously and a straight link to the form site is provided.

For courses not listed in S3 and/or you are not listed equally the instructor of record:

• Contact your section to associate y'all as the teacher of record in S3.
• Electronic mail the states and we will create a Canvas class for y'all and so that you tin can develop your course site every bit you look for the S3 process to consummate.

How do I get content moved over from a previous course?

To copy content from a previous Canvas form:

This is integrated equally part of the online course request procedure. From within the online form asking form, you will select from a dropdown list, the Canvass form you'd like to copy into your new Canvas course. If you exercise not meet the class in the listing, contact united states for help.

NOTE: One time you consummate and submit the online course request form, your grade volition be created instantaneously, All the same, the content you are copying over will take a few minutes to process and will not show up in your course until the process is completed.

To copy content from a previous Blackboard course:

Yous volition find a text field on the online course request form where you will betoken the course semester, number, and title. We will then manually movement your Blackboard grade content into your new Sail form site for you lot.

Feel free to contact u.s. for additional aid or questions you might accept: canvas-help@andrew.cmu.edu or 412-268-9090.

How exercise registered students get added to my Sheet grade?

Automated pupil enrollments:

Once students are officially enrolled in the course, we will choice upward those enrollments automatically through regularly scheduled enrollment processes.

How practice I manually add together non-registered students (e.k., waitlisted) to my course?

Students on the waitlist are not automatically added, however you can add together them manually. Do this by:

1. Creating a new section in your Sail course (eastward.g., a "Waitlist" section).
2. Add the students to the manually created section by using the +People button in the People area of your course.
3. Contact united states if you lot'd similar more help with this: canvas-help@andrew.cmu.edu or 412-268-9090 (telephone hours: 8:30am-5:00pm ET, Mon-Fri).

Important NOTE: Adding non-registered students to a manually created section in Sail will ensure that they do not get removed from the form automatically when regularly scheduled automated enrollment feed processes run.

Stride 1. Create a new section in your Canvas course:

1. From within your Canvas form, navigate to "Settings" in the left course navigation.
2. Select the "Sections" tab at the acme of the Settings page.
   
3. Enter a Proper name for your section and click the "add Department" button.

Step 2: A dd students to the manually created section:

1. From within your Canvas course, navigate to the "People" folio and click the "Add People" button.
   
   
2. An "Add together People" window will launch where y'all will enter the person's Andrew email address and select the section you just created from the dropdown list provided.
   
   
3. Click "Next" to review the user's details and then click the "Add Users" button to complete the process.
   

How exercise I select/change a Homepage for the course?

When yous enter your form site, you will land on the course homepage. To modify which expanse of your course is the default landing page:

1. Click theChoose Home Page  button on the correct side of the page (in the Course Status menu).
   
   
2. A popular-upward window of options for the homepage volition appear. Click the radio button next to the expanse you would like to be the homepage and clickSave  to update your course homepage.
   
   
   

Annotation: if the "Pages Front Page" is greyed out/unavailable to select, yous will showtime need to betoken one of your "Pages" as a "homepage".

How do I fix a Pages Forepart Page?

If you would like to make a content page your class homepage, you will need to either have a content page already created or create a new content folio, then select that folio equally your homepage.

How to c reate a new content page:

1. Select "Pages" from the left course navigation and click the (+ Page) add page button.
2. Enter the content that will appear on the page; and so clickSave and Publish .

How to select a folio to use as a homepage/Front Page

1. Navigate again to "Pages" from the left course navigation.
2. Find the page in the listing that you'd like to use equally your course home page and c lick to expand the settings bill of fare associated with this page (Click on the gear icon at the correct of the page list). From the dropdown carte, select " Use equally Front Page" .

1. This page will now be available to select from the "Cull Home Page" menu.
   (Note: Click the "Home" left navigation item to find the "Cull Home Page" button/menu.)

How tin I see what students meet in my Canvas course?

Student View allows you to view your grade the aforementioned way students would. You lot can use the fake student account generated by Student View to consummate quizzes, submit assignments, and determine whether content is published or not.

Steps

1. Become to the Dwelling house surface area of your course site and click the "Pupil View" button.

1. Navigate around the course and try things out every bit you'd wait students to do (due east.g., have a quiz). Then when you are washed, click to "Leave Pupil View" (in the bottom right surface area of your browser).

Managing Users and Student Accounts in Canvas

How to Add Users to a Course Site

Overview

Instructors and TAs tin add users to a Canvass course site. The steps below will outline how to add together users to a Canvas site and how to ensure added users are not removed by automated enrollment feeds.

Steps

1. Retrieve the user'due south email address from the CMU Directory
2. In your Canvas class site, become to the People expanse and click the "+People" push
   

3. Paste in the user's e-mail address and click the "Side by side" button. Annotation: yous can use the Part drop-down card to specify which role the user should accept. More information on roles tin be found here ^[a] .
   
   
4. Make sure the user listed is the person you lot would like to add to your form site and and then click the "Add together Users" button
   
   

Preventing Users from Existence Removed from a Class

For all courses linked to the Registrar'due south automated enrollment feeds, if a user who is not on the official roster is added to the section that automated enrollment feeds run to, the user will be dropped from the site the next time the automated enrollment feeds run.

If y'all would like to add together users to the form who do non announced on the official roster, when you lot come up to the Add together People window (where you can paste in a user'south email address), utilize the Section drib-down menu to add together students to the non-automated enrollment section.

The non-automated enrollment section is the section that has your course title. Automatic enrollment feeds just run to the numerical course sections.

How to Change Your Display Proper name in Canvas

Overview

Canvas pulls all name information from the CMU Directory . If you would like to change your display proper noun in Sail, you lot will need to enter a preferred name in the CMU Directory.

Notation  that, while this will change your brandish name, your legal proper name will remain the same. If yous would like to modify your legal name, please contact the HUB .

How-To

1. Go to https://emailtools.cmu.edu/directory
2. In the Preferred Name  field, enter the proper noun you would similar to display in Sail (kickoff name only!)
3. Click Update

Please note: it can have upwards to 24 hours for changes made here to reflect in Canvass.

How to Requite Non CMU External User Access to Sheet

In lodge to admission Canvas, users need to have an Andrew ID. You can request an Andrew ID for a user by requesting a Personal Sponsored Business relationship.

It may take upwardly to 24 hours for Computing Services to consummate the request. Once the account has been created, yous may and so add the user by their Andrew ID in your course.

(PCHE Statement) Annotation: If you wish to add together a educatee who is not affiliated with CMU merely will be registered through the CMU registrar, do non create an account for them through the accounts folio. The pupil will receive their own Andrew ID.

Differences in Roles

When adding users to Canvas, y'all may use the drop-down Role carte du jour to specify which role you lot would similar the user to have.

A user's role determines what they will exist able to do within the Canvas course. Here is a breakdown on the office options and what each is able to practise:

	Add/Edit course content	Delete class content	View class content	View ain grades	View all students' grades	Send messages to other form users	Publish course	Add users to class	Utilise the Discussion board
Student			✔	✔		✔			✔
Observer			✔			✔			✔
Instructor	✔	✔	✔		✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Teacher Reviewer			✔
TA	✔	✔	✔		✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Assessment			✔		✔	✔
Grader					✔
Designer	✔	✔	✔			✔	✔	✔
Guest Speaker			✔						✔

How To Evidence Different Sections in the Attendance Tool

Overview

The Omnipresence tool in Sail provides y'all with an electronic way of recording students' attendance on a given date. This guide details how to record attendance for different sections in your Canvas site.

Steps

1. From inside your Canvas site, click the Attendance link in your left navigation carte du jour
   
   

2. In the Attendance tool click the drib-downwardly bill of fare in the upper left area to select which section y'all would like to view.
   
   

More Information

If you would like to encounter all students from all sections on one page in the Omnipresence tool, please contact canvas-help@andrew.cmu.edu  so that nosotros can gear up up your roster to do so.

Adding and organizing content in Canvass

How do I upload and manage files?

Canvas provides a file director for organizing all of your grade documents (e.g., pdf, docx, pptx) into folders (eastward.g., readings, problem sets, homework). These documents tin can then be linked from anywhere within the class (e.thou., from the Modules page, an assignment, a quiz, a content page).

You lot can either upload files directly to the "Files" area or you tin can upload from anywhere else within the course and they will also be added to the files area as a result.

• Notation: We recommend that y'all go along the "Files" left navigation detail unavailable to students so that you exercise not accidentally provide students with access to documents that you'd prefer they not see (e.yard., solution sets).

There are several other ways you can provide students with access to files in an organized and controlled fashion. Using "Modules" is 1 skillful fashion to do this. Hither's how:

Using Modules equally a way to upload, manage, and provide students with access to course documents/files.

1. 1. Navigate to the "Modules" area of the course. Add together a Module and label information technology (eastward.yard., Week ane: Welcome and Syllabus or Readings). Now that you have a module, you lot can add items to it, includng files.
   2. Click the "+" button next to the module title to add an item to that module.

      

1. 1. Using the dropdown card that appears, select "File" from the listing and and so click "New File".

      

      

1. 1. Click "Browse" to find and select a file from your computer.
      

1. Once the file has been selected, click "Add Particular" to upload the file to the Module.
   

What's the departure betwixt Modules and Files?

Modules

The Modules area in Sheet can be used for organizing your content and presenting information technology to students. Modules tin office equally content folders which are organized by week, lecture or topic, and which grouping together related files, content pages, and links to assignments, quizzes, or give-and-take boards.

Access to modules can as well exist restricted past date, or by prerequisite modules or activities, which allows you to control your students' flow through the course.

Files

The Files expanse in Canvass contains all images and documents you upload to the course, or that are imported from Blackboard. While content in the Files surface area can be organized into folders and sub-folders, information technology is of import to call up thatallcontent uploaded to the form appears in the Files area - even documents y'all may non want your students to take admission to (such as previous semester example assignments, or exam keys).

The Files areadoes notallow you to identify links to Canvas assignments, quizzes, or word boards into content folders. The Files area also does non  allow you to attach whatever explanatory text to a file stored in the Files area.

Typically, instructors hide the Files area from student view and, instead, organize student-facing content inside Modules.

How exercise I hide the Files area from students?

1. Go to the Settings area of your class

2. Click the Navigation tab at the height of the page

3. Click the gear next to Files and selectDisable

4. Scroll to the bottom of the folio and clickSalvage  to save your changes

How do I hide courses from the dashboard?

How practice I rearrange courses on the dashboard?

How do I reopen courses that take disappeared?

Students:

You lot take access to Sheet courses during the enrolled semester plus three weeks into the following semester. Admission will be removed unless otherwise granted past your instructor.

Fall - Three weeks into Bound semester

Bound - Three weeks into Summertime semester

Summer - Three weeks into Fall semester

Instructors:

Overview

Students have access to Canvas courses during the enrolled semester plus three weeks into the following semester. Access will be removed unless you extend the availability date of the form.

Fall - Three weeks into Spring semester
Spring - Three weeks into Summer semester
Summer - Three weeks into Autumn semester

You can re-open courses to students by post-obit the steps below.

How-to

1. Become to the Settings  area of your course site
2. Enter the desired end appointment in the Finish Engagement  field (this volition exist the appointment students lose access to the Canvas site)
3. Check the box underneath the Stop Engagement  field ("Students can merely participate in the course betwixt these dates")
   

4. Salvage  your changes on this folio

Communicating with Students (TAs, Groups)

How exercise I send electronic mail to students in my Canvass grade?

How do I CC myself on emails I send through Canvas?

Although the Canvas Inbox contains a Sent binder of emails you sent out through Canvass, some users like to receive an email re-create of whatever message they ship through Canvas.

To fix your notification preferences and so you are automatically cc-ed on emails you ship through Canvass:

1. Get to your Account (from the left Navigation bar) and click on " Notifications"from Account menu listing .

2. On the Notifications folio, scroll downward to the "Conversations" department and make sure the green check marker is selected for the selection "Conversations Created By Me".
   

What practise I practise when a educatee says they are not receiving the announcements I'm sending through Sail?

If a student reports that they are not receiving the emails you lot send through Canvas, here are some bones troubleshooting steps they can take:

1. Brand sure they are checking their preferred email address
   1. Announcements from Sheet are sent to the preferred email accost the student has on file in the CMU Directory .
   2. Students can also view their preferred email address by going to Account > Settings inside Canvass (their e-mail address volition be listed on the upper right side of the page).

2. Have the student check their Notification Preferences.
   1. Go to Account > Notifications within Canvass.
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   2. Ringlet to the Class Activities area and make sure the dark-green check mark is selected next to "Announcement" (Note: this is enabled by default).
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   3. Contact Sheet Support at:canvas-assistance@andrew.cmu.edu  and nosotros'll be happy to help resolve the issue!

How do I brand an announcement to students in Canvass?

Using Discussions in Canvass

How does the give-and-take board work in Canvas?

Canvas' Discussions area allows for the creation of give-and-take forums. Discussions provide a space for interactive communication between ii or more people; users can participate in a conversation with an entire form or grouping.

To create a discussion forum in Sheet:

1. Go to the Discussions area of your course.
   
   
2. Click the+ Discussionpush button at the top of the page.
   
   
3. Give your give-and-take a title and enter a discussion prompt or instructions in the box below.
   
   
4. Select any additional options for the discussion board.

More than well-nigh Word Board options:

1. By default, discussions are created every bit focused discussions.
   To create a threaded discussion, click the Allow threaded replies checkbox.
2. To require users to reply to the discussion before they can see any other replies, click the Users must post before seeing replies checkbox.
3. To enable a discussion podcast feed, click the Enable podcast feed checkbox.
4. To create a graded discussion, click the Graded checkbox.
   You can assign graded discussions to everyone, individual students, course sections, or course groups.
5. To let students to like discussion replies, click the Allow liking checkbox.
6. To make the discussion a grouping discussion, click the This is a Group Discussion checkbox.

ClickSave & Publish  to publish your give-and-take to students.

What are some other discussion lath options that I might consider using (e.g., Piazza)?

Piazza is another discussion tool available to you in Sail. Piazza provides you lot with a give-and-take platform where you tin post questions, notes, or polls to your course. Additionally, Piazza allows yous to organize your discussion threads into folders that tin can be named according to a convention that makes sense to your grade.

You lot can preview Piazza "in action" past going tohttps://piazza.com/  and clicking theView a Real Classbutton.

Enabling Piazza in your class

To enable Piazza in your Canvas course (then students can admission Piazza from within Canvas):

1. Go to the Settings area of your class and select the Navigation tab

2. Coil downwardly to locate Piazza and click the gear icon. Select "Enable"

3. Whorl to the bottom of the page to Save your changes
4. A link to Piazza will appear in the left navigation menu of your class. Both instructors and students will be able to access Piazza by clicking on this link.

5. Note: The first fourth dimension the teacher clicks on the link to Piazza, they volition need to enter information about the course (including the course name, estimated enrollment, and term)

Grading in Canvas

How practice I create new columns in the Gradebook?

How do I weight grades in Canvas?

Managing grade weights in Canvas is done through the Assignments surface area of your course. To gear up up weighting, you will need to:

1. Set up consignment groups
2. Organize assignments into the groups
3. Fix assignment group weights

Setting upward and organizing assignments into assignment groups

1. Go to the Assignments area of your grade.
   
   
2. Add assignment groups (weighting categories) past clicking the + Group  push button at the pinnacle of the page.
   
   
3. Enter a name for the group and click Save.

4. In one case you have groups prepare, you can organize assignments into the groups by drag-and-drop

Setting assignment group weights

1. Click the gear icon at the peak of the Assignments page and select " Consignment Groups Weight ".
   

2. Check the "Weight final class based on assignment groups" box and enter the percentage that each group should count towards the Total class.
   Click Salve  when you are finished.
   

More notes most assignment weighting

Weighting an individual assignment

If you would like to set an individual assignment to contribute towards a sure percentage of the Full form, you lot will notwithstanding demand to create an assignment group for this consignment. This will exist an consignment group of i consignment.

Viewing assignment groups in the Grades area

When consignment groups are set up in your course, y'all will find columns respective to each consignment grouping appear in the gradebook. These columns will keep track of pupil performance in each consignment grouping.

How do I re-grade a quiz?

If you accidentally published a quiz that needs to exist corrected, you can use quiz regrade to edit existing quiz questions and tell Sail to recalculate educatee grades.

You can regrade:

• Multiple Choice Questions
• True/False Questions
• Multiple Answers Questions

To regrade a quiz question:

1. Go to the Quizzes area of your course and click on the quiz that contains the question.
   
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2. Click the Edit  push and select the Questions  tab.
   
   
3. Roll to the question you need to edit and click the pencil icon to open up the edit screen for this question.
   

4. Hover over the answer that you would similar to set as the new, correct reply and click the green pointer that appears. This will launch the regrade dialog window.
   
   
5. From the "Regrade Options" window, select the choice that best applies to your needs.
   

Considerations regarding the choice choices:

• Award points for both corrected and previously correct answers:
  Using quiz analytics or student feedback, y'all may find that students establish a question too confusing, or you realized that the question could have been listed with multiple answers when only one was selected. In cases like these, you tin select this option to avoid penalizing your students.
• Only honour points for the correct reply:
  Occasionally an incorrect answer may get marked equally the right respond for a quiz. This option allows you to correct the answer and give credit to those who selected the answer that should have been correct.
• Give everyone total credit for this question:
  In some cases it might be appropriate to simply give everyone full credit for a question.
• Update questions without regrading:
  If you need to better your question or answers for a future quiz, you lot can select this option to update a question without regrading the students who have already taken the quiz.

Important!

• If yous change the question type, you are effectively creating a new quiz question. This means that, later on the question type is changed, Sail will flag this question equally having no student responses.
• Quiz regrade does non utilize to questions linked to a question bank since questions may be used in more than one quiz.

How practise I build and grade with Rubrics?

How do I view analytics for a student in Canvas (e.g., content accessed, quiz responses)?

Canvas provides multiple ways to admission different types of analytics. This guide will discuss how to access:

1. Analytics on quizzes (questions students answered, time spent on questions, etc.)
2. Analytics on content interaction (the date and how many times students accessed content in a Canvas Course)

Quiz analytics

You tin can view quiz statistics for quizzes that accept been published and have at least ane submission. You tin can likewise download comma carve up value (CSV) files to view Student Analysis or Item Analysis for each quiz question. To admission quiz statistics:

1. Get to the Quizzes area of your grade.
   
2. Click to enter the quiz and then click the Quiz Statistics  link.
   
   

On the Quiz Summary screen:

• Past default, the quiz summary shows statistics for all sections including the quiz boilerplate score, loftier score, low score, standard deviation (how far the values are spread beyond the entire score range), and average time of quiz completion [ane] .
• To view quiz statistics for a section, click the Section Filter  drop-downward bill of fare [2] .
• To admission boosted survey results, generate a Student/Detail Analysis report [3] .
• In the summary graph, the x-axis indicates the quiz scored percentages [4] ,  and the y-axis indicates the number of students who received each pct [v] .
  

3. To view a breakdown of the number of students who selected each question response, click the Detail Analysis  button (at the top of the page).
   

Content interaction reports

You can view the grade admission report for an individual user in the People  section of your class. The course access report shows a summary of user participation in your course.

1. Navigate to the "People" area of the class and click the gear to the far right of the proper name of the educatee whose access report yous would like to view and select User Details.
   
2. Click the Access Report  link (in the upper right surface area of the User Details page).
   
   

   The access written report will show you:

• The content the user has viewed.
• The number of times the user viewed the content. A view is counted each time a user navigates to the URL where the content resides or downloads an zipper.
• The number of times the user participated (if applicable, such as posting to a give-and-take or submitting an consignment).
• The last time the user viewed the content.

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