Canvas Reference for Faculty (a Curated List)
This page contains a curated list of Canvas Guides to help you design and teach your course.
Canvas Interface Overview
Logging in to Canvas
- Go to Canvas at CSUN
- Log in with your University ID and Password
Profile and user settings in Canvas
- Updating your profile
- Adding email addresses and mobile numbers for notifications
- Setting notification preferences
Navigation in Canvas
The Course Home Page
Making the course visible to students
Announcements
Using Discussions
Important terms:
- Discussions: The discussions function (sometimes called Discussion Boards or Discussion Forums) is an asynchronous communication tool. A course may have one or more discussions. Discussions may be organized by subject (e.g., Assignment 2 Discussion) or chronologically (e.g., Week 1 Discussion). A discussion may have a prompt provided by the instructor, to which students will write responses.
- Thread or Topic: Discussions are made up of topic threads. A thread is the initial post and the entire series of replies to that post within a discussion.
- Post: A post is a discussion entry posted to a thread or used to start a thread. Other terms used for this include discussion board message or discussion reply.
- Creating a discussion
- Reading replies
- Replying to a discussion
- Editing or deleting a discussion reply
- Creating a content page
- Uploading and managing files
Using the Assignment tool
- Creating an Assignment
- Adding or editing the details of an assignment
- Accessing SpeedGrader for assignments, quizzes and discussions
- Using SpeedGrader
Quizzes
Modules
Other Important Tasks
- Viewing the course as a student
- Viewing course enrollment
- Copying content from another Canvas course
- Using the Conversations (Inbox) Tool
