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Files:

Files: Canvas provides a file repository for each user, group, and course. Files can be public or private.

Breadcrumb Navigation

is at the top of the Main Body of the page and helps you to how to move up and down in the course hierarchy.

Assignments

are any online activity submission that is graded by the instructor. Assignments include Quizzes, graded Discussions, and online submissions (i.e. files, images, text, URLs, etc.)

Pages

Pages make it easy to build content inside a course. Pages can be editable by students and teachers

Conversations

is the messaging tool used instead of email to communicate with a course, a group, an individual student, or a group of students.

Modules

Modules make it possible to organize course content by week, topic, or day. Modules can be set up with pre-requisites or co-requisites that force students to walk through the material in a sequential fashion

Global Activity Stream

Global Activity Stream shows you all of the recent activity from all of your courses

Global Navigation

Global Navigation menu, always positioned at the top of the page, allows users to quickly navigate to any courses or groups that they are enrolled in. They can also view their grades and calendar from here

ePortfolios

ePortfolios allow students to showcase their best work to colleagues and prospective employers. They also make it possible for students to create light-weight websites or presentations.

Chat

tool provides synchronous video, audio, and chat communication between by the entire course or any subset of the course roster.

Canvas courses

Canvas courses begin in an unpublished state. They then move to a published state. They can also be make publicly viewable.

Course Home Page

is the first page that students see when they click on "Home" in their Course Navigation. The Course Home Page can be customized to display a custom Page, the Syllabus page, the Assignment page, or the Modules page.

Conferences

make it easy to create virtual classrooms where students and instructors can interact in real time with audio, video, desktop sharing, and presentation tools.

Course Statistics

Course Statistics help the instructor to see which pages are being viewed most frequently

Notification Preferences

Each Canvas user can adjust the Notification Preferences in their Profile to fit their individual needs. Some users will want to be notified of course events on a more regular basis than others.

Profile

Each user can modify their Profile in Canvas, including setting their display name, changing the time zone, and uploading a profile picture.

Math Editor

Math Editor is a Latex-compatible toolbar that makes it easy for instructors to write math expressions and equations

Mobile Apps

Mobile Apps: Currently, instructors can use the SpeedGrader™ on their iPads. Soon, students will be able to interact with their Canvas courses on the iPad and the iPhone.

People

People page lists all of the students that are enrolled in a course.

Rich Content Editor

Rich Content Editor: Canvas has a simple, yet powerful, word processor that is available anytime for creating new content (assignments, announcement, discussions, blogs etc.) within Canvas

Rubric

Rubric is an assessment tool for communicating expectations of quality. Rubrics are typically comprised of rows and columns. Rows are used to define the various criteria being used to assess an assignment. Columns are used to define levels of performance for each criterion.

Sidebar

Sidebar on the right side of the page provides the links and buttons you'll need to get stuff done in the Main Body of the page.

SpeedGrader

SpeedGrader™ makes it easy to evaluate student work. Instructors can use rubrics for fast assessment and leave text, video, and audio comments for their students.

Course Activity Stream

shows you all of the recent activity from a single course

Course Setup Checklist

helps a new user to walk through all of the steps required to build a course and invite students.

Course Navigation

is a series of links on the left side of your screen that help you get to where you want to go within your Canvas Course.

Dashboard

Dashboard consists of three main elements: Global Navigation across the top of the page, a to do list with upcoming events on the Sidebar, and the Global Activity Stream that comprises the body of the page.

Grades

Grades is the name for the Canvas gradebook. Students can calculate hypothetical grades on this page. Instructors can quickly edit grades for any course or section.

Groups

Groups can be created for students or by students to enable efficient collaboration

In-context Help

In-context Help links are marked with a blue question mark. These links open up short tutorials to help users get the most out of Canvas.

outcomes

Instructors can specify learning outcomes for their courses and track how students are doing against those outcomes with Quizzes, Assignments, and graded Discussions.

Settings

Settings allow instructors to customize the Course Navigation, add users, import content, and link to external tools

register

You can register with a number of web services from Canvas, GoogleDocs, Skype, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Delicious, Diigo. By linking to the web services you will not need to log in every time you join the service

Announcements

allow you to communicate with your students about course activities and post interesting course-related topics.

Course Import/Export Too

makes it easy to pull in content from existing Canvas courses and content packages from other LMSs and textbook publishers.Course Import/Export Tool makes it easy to pull in content from existing Canvas courses and content packages from other LMSs and textbook publishers.

Help Corner

Help Corner in the top right, is where you can ask for support, check your inbox, or modify your profile

Collaborations

makes it easy for students and instructors to create documents that can be edited by the entire course or any subset of the course roster.

Calendar

makes it easy for students and instructors to see all of the events and assignments going on across all of their courses

Syllabus

the Syllabus there are three main parts: a calendar and grading scheme for the course situated in the Sidebar on the right side of the page, a list of dated items in the main body of the page that is automatically managed by Canvas, and a syllabus description at the top of the page that you can edit.

Quizzes

Quizzes is the assessment tool used in Canvas