Back to School with Canvas: Instructors

Kelli Sorensen

What is the purpose of this campaign?

The purpose of this campaign is to empower instructors with a checklist to verify their course will continue smoothly through the rest of the semester. This campaign consists of one message and three walkthroughs.

Tool categories
🔧 The 'Course Pacing' tool category should be toggled on before importing the campaign on to display the content. Click here to find out how to manage tool categories in your dashboard.

 

Message placement

📌 Dashboard                           

Systray

Find out where your walkthrough steps will show up

Walkthrough: Global Navigation Check

(view in My Videos)

Walkthrough: Course Content Check

This walkthrough launches when a user clicks on a course card.

(view in My Videos)

 Walkthrough: Course Settings Check

This walkthrough launches when a user clicks on the Course Settings tab.

(view in My Videos)

Support Articles

One article of this campaign is custom made and cannot be previewed outside the Impact Dashboard.

• Start of Year Checklist for Instructors
• How do I use the Inbox as an instructor?
• How do I send a message to a user in a course in the Inbox as an instructor?
• How do I send a message to all course users in the Inbox as an instructor?
• How do I filter conversations as an instructor?
• How do I star a conversation as an instructor?
• How do I manage my Canvas notification settings as an instructor?
• How do I manage notifications for a single course as an instructor?
• How do I edit my profile in my user account as an instructor?
• How do I use the Calendar as an instructor?
• How do I edit an event or assignment in the Calendar?
• How do I add an event to a course calendar?
• How do I add a Scheduler appointment group in a course calendar?
• How do I view my favorite courses in the Card View Dashboard as an instructor?
• How do I view all my Canvas courses as an instructor?
• How do I use the Dashboard as an instructor?
• How do I use the Course Home Page as an instructor?
• How do I change the Course Home Page?
• How do I use the Announcements Index Page?
• How do I delay posting an announcement until a specific date in a course?
• How do I use the Modules Index Page?
• How do I publish or unpublish a module as an instructor?
• How do I view a course as a test student using Student View?
• How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates as an instructor?
• How do I assign an assignment to a course group?
• How do I create a peer review assignment?
• How do I weight the final course grade based on assignment groups?
• How do I use the gradebook?
• How do I select a grade posting policy for a course in the Gradebook?
• How do I arrange columns in the Gradebook?
• How do I automatically create groups in a group set?
• How do I limit a user to only interact with other users in the same course section?
• How do I restrict files and folders to students in Canvas?
• How do I change the start and end dates for a course?
• How do I restrict student access to a course before or after the course dates?
• How do I use grading schemes in a course?
• How do I change a course name and course code?
• How do I add an image to a course card in the Dashboard?
• How do I hide totals in my students' grade summaries?
• How do I show recent announcements in the Course Home Page?
• How do I manage Course Navigation links?
• How do I copy a Canvas course into a new course shell?
• How do I import a Canvas course export package?
• How do I select specific content as part of a course import?
• How do I validate links in a course? 
• How do I view global activity for all my courses in the Recent Activity Dashboard as an instructor?
• How do I hide grades that were previously posted in the Gradebook?

How can the impact of this campaign be measured?

Campaign engagement

Views on messages & links on support included inside messages
Views on support articles included in this campaign 

Average tool adoption

Monitors have been placed on the following pages/elements as data points to define the use of the tool