Learning Canvas: Basics
This guide offers support for the Canvas Basics workshops including recordings and links to step-by-step guides.
To learn Canvas at NC State, there are three workshop options offered in different formats/duration. Each workshop covers that same general objectives and content. Find additional information about learning Canvas on the Canvas Teaching Resources page or at the DELTA Canvas hub.
- 4-Part Canvas Basics Series
- This four-part series of workshops is designed to be taken in order for the best experience. Each workshop is 60 minutes, held on Zoom, and will be offered multiple times a semester.
- Register for Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four
Canvas Basics: Part One
Learn to navigate Canvas as an instructor and review the basic structure and organization of Canvas courses. Create a Canvas Page and set it as the front page of your practice course. Want to get ahead before the workshop starts? Try out Canvas features in this Canvas Student Demo Course and create your own Canvas Project Space.
- Workshop Resources and Links
- Create a Project Space in Canvas
- Canvas Navigation – Resources from Part One
- Canvas Modules and Pages – Resources from Part One
- Check out the Canvas Instructor Guide for additional documentation on using Canvas.
Canvas Basics: Part Two
Dive into modules, the core organizational tool of Canvas courses. Create a Canvas Assignment and learn how to duplicate modules.
- Recording (Coming Soon)
- Canvas Modules – Resources
- This workshop covers
- Check out the Modules section of the Canvas Instructor Guide for all the documentation on modules!
- Canvas Assignments – Resources
- This workshop covers
- Check out the Assignment section of the Canvas Instructor Guide for all the documentation on assignments!
- Canvas SpeedGrader – Resources
- This workshop covers
- Check out the SpeedGrader section of the Canvas Instructor Guide for all the documentation on SpeedGrader!
Canvas Basics: Part Three
Create two Canvas assignment types: Discussions and Quizzes. Learn how to grade both and make them available for students.
- Recording (Coming Soon)
- Workshop Resources and Links
- Canvas Discussions
- Using the Discussions Index Page
- Creating a Discussion
- Graded Discussions
- Edit or Delete a Discussion
- Publishing and Unpublishing a Discussion
- Responding to a Discussion as an Instructor
- Check out the Canvas Instructor Guide for more Canvas discussion documentation!
- Canvas New Quizzes
- Using the Quizzes Index Page
- How to create a Quiz
- How to edit a Quiz
- How to manage Quiz Settings
- How to grade a Quiz
- Check out the Canvas Instructor Guide for more Canvas New Quizzes documentation!
- Quiz Item Banks
- How to create an Item Bank
- How to manage Item Banks
- How to add content to Item Banks
- Check out the Canvas Instructor Guide for More Quiz Item Bank documentation!
- Canvas Discussions
Canvas Basics: Part Four
Set up your Canvas Gradebook and learn more about grading. Manage your course settings and learn how to publish the course for students.
- Recording (Coming Soon)
- Links to Workshop Guides and Resources (Coming Soon)
- Canvas Basics Intensive
- This in-person four-hour workshop will help participants who want move through the entire Canvas basics and set up process in an in-person setting.
- Register for Canvas Basics Intensive
- Canvas Basics Essentials
- This two-hour workshop offered on Zoom will cover fewer topics in less depth but meet the needs of instructors who use more surface-level features of a learning management system.
- Register for Canvas Basics Essentials