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Canvas

Canvas is the university's primary Learning Management System.
Canvas requires a TRACKS login account and FIT email address. (New students must wait until they receive their FIT email address to gain access to Canvas.)
Support is available 24/7 from Canvas via the Help link in Canvas.

Overview of the User Dashboard - Video for Students | Video for Instructors
Enroll in Growing With Canvas, an online self-paced course for instructors. Last updated 2019-12-18
Take Canvas's Self-Paced Instructor Orientation to learn about common course-building tasks.
Enroll in Panopto 101 online training to use Panopto with Canvas.
Canvas's TurnItIn Integration connects Turnitin to Canvas Course Assignments.

Log In Now using your TRACKS ID
Set Your Notification Preferences to tell Canvas when and how you want to receive notifications from the system.
Learn more from Canvas's Help Center
Don't see a course you expect to see? Find out about Canvas Courses.

Canvas Commons is a crowd-sourced educational content/learning object repository.
Access Commons by logging into Canvas.
Use Commons to create a personal learning object repository.
Build a course from scratch using materials shared by other Canvas users.
Share materials to gain reputation as a subject matter expert and content creator.
Learn more!

Crosslist/Merge Your Courses - makes combining multiple sections in Canvas easy and intuitive.
Non-synced Course/Group Manager - lets you create a course shell in Canvas on-demand.

Get Help 24/7: email support@instructure.com, call 844-325-8810, chat online, or click Help inside Canvas.
Canvas's Configurations explain how Canvas interacts with other FIT systems. (last updated 6/2/2014)

For HELP from within Canvas, simply click the Help link. The Canvas Guides are excellent.
Rather than a Folder structure, Canvas uses Modules. Modules are a good way to sequence the content in your course.
Copying and pasting from PDFs removes formatting; it works better to copy from Word files to preserve formatting and links.
Syllabus shortcut: Go to the Syllabus menu on the left, then click Edit Syllabus Description. There, copy and paste your syllabus from Word.
The default grading scale cannot be set for all courses. If you don't use a grading scale, all scores will be numeric. If you want to convert scores into letters, you have to set up a grading scheme.
Is Roll Call Attendance affecting your grades in Canvas when you wish it wouldn't? Try this easy fix.(last updated 10/14/2014)