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ISU Canvas Faculty Essentials

Request your initial learning sandbox course and you will be automatically enrolled in the ISU Canvas Faculty Essentials course.

This self-paced, online course includes the following:

  • Importing your Moodle ISU course into ISU Canvas.
  • Accessing ISU course frameworks, and examples.
  • Navigating as an instructor.
  • Creating
    • Module
    • Pages
    • Assignments
    • Discussions
    • Rubrics
    • Classic Quizzes
  • Setting up your gradebook.
  • The Canvas Syllabus vs. the Course Syllabus
  • Publishing content.
  • Communicating with your students (Announcements, Inbox, Grading)
  • The SpeedGrader
  • Saving a copy of your course.