The purpose of this page is to give you a quick overview of the most useful links on our website.
General
Login to Canvas – takes you to the login page for Canvas.
Getting Started with Canvas – link to the homepage of our website where you can find links to all our support materials.
Canvas Sandbox – this guide explains what your Sandbox space is, how to access it, and how to use it.
Frequently Asked Questions – the FAQ page for our website which covers the questions we’ve been asked so far during Canvas training sessions.
Setting up your Canvas teaching space
Moving to Canvas – this page details the workflow for how to populate your Canvas teaching space with migrated content.
Canvas Course Template – view this page to familiarise yourself with the Canvas template.
Canvas Course Standards – this guide gives tips on how to achieve each of the course standards, both for required standards and desirable features.
Copying Content between Canvas Spaces – you may need to copy your content from your migrated Canvas space into your teaching space. This guide demonstrates how to do this.
Building Content in Canvas – if you have chosen to build your content from scratch in Canvas, or if you have additional content to add, this guide will show you how to do this.
Publish your Course – unlike in Blackboard, there are manual actions required to make a Canvas course accessible to students. This page will walk you through these simple but crucial final steps.
Assessment and Feedback
Assignments and Quizzes – this guides show how to set up assignments, quizzes and rubrics within Canvas.
Turnitin Plagiarism Framework – this guide explains what the Plagiarism Framework is and how it differs to how we used Turnitin within Blackboard.
External Tools in Canvas – if you use an external tool for assessment, such as Gradescope or STACK, you can find more information about add these into Canvas in this guide.
Marking and Feedback – this guide shows you how to use Gradebook, SpeedGrader and also how to mark with rubrics.
Training and Support
Drop-in Clinics – find the schedule for all our future Canvas drop-in clinics on this page.
1-to-1 Virtual Consultation – book onto a 30 minute Canvas help session with the FSE eLearning Team via MS Teams.
Raise a ticket via Connect – use the Blackboard, Turnitin & eLearning form in Connect to raise a request or flag an issue.