Topic: Canvas basics
Guiding principles for your Canvas course
UTS academics designing subject sites in the learning management system (LMS) are recommended to follow the nine guiding principles. Each principle provides key benefits for students and staff. UTS aims for consistent site design across all sites within the LMS. The common layout of Canvas courses should be intuitive,...
Subject Outline guide
You need to generate the Subject Outline PDF for your subject in the Curriculum Information System (CIS) before accessing it through Canvas. Log into CIS (opens a UTS website). Follow the instructions on generating your Subject Outline on the the CIS help page (opens a UTS website). If you have one or more...
Groups in Canvas
A Group Set is a set of groups you create to use for assessment tasks, or to organise categories of groups. You can have up to 200 groups in a Group Set. When creating a group set via ‘+Group Set’, you can choose to: Allow students to sign up to a group within...
Use Canvas Groups and Pages for collaboration
In Canvas, subject content and resources are presented to students on Pages. In addition, you can set up these pages to give open access to students, allowing them to contribute to and edit their own content – just like a wiki. Enable students to edit To do this, go to the...
Calendar in Canvas
The Calendar sits above Inbox on your navigation menu: The Calendar automatically syncs with other features in Canvas, such as Assignments, Syllabus, and Grades so if you create, change, or delete the due date of an Assignment on the Calendar, it will show up in all the others and...
Conversations Inbox in Canvas
Conversations is accessed via the Inbox icon on the Global Navigation Menu. If you right-click (or option-click) on the Inbox icon, you can open your Conversations in a new browser tab to keep it handy while you are doing other tasks in Canvas. The video tutorial below (4:13) will...
Copying and sharing content in Canvas
The Direct Share feature in Canvas means you can share and copy assignments, announcements, quizzes, discussions, pages and modules quickly and easily. You can send content directly to another user in Canvas, or copy content into your Canvas courses. You will find the option to share or copy in...
Canvas course home page
The Course Home Page is the first page your students will see when they enter your Canvas course. It is also the page they will see when they click on the Home link on the Course Navigation Menu. The following video (3:25 min) shows you how to set and...
Canvas Dashboard
The Dashboard is the first page you will see when you log into Canvas. It is where you will access all your Canvas courses. You can access the Dashboard at any time, by clicking the Dashboard icon on the Global Navigation Menu on the far left hand side of...