This category answers questions on how to use Canvas.

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Students

Canvas articles for students.

Faculty/Staff

Canvas articles for faculty/staff on topics such as: creating or copying/importing courses, exam maintenance, errors, and more.

Technical Staff

Canvas articles for IT/technical help.

Articles (20)

Canvas: Check for an Outage

View and subscribe to notifications about Canvas outages.

Convert and Print Classic Quiz PDF

Instructors might request to have a classic quiz printed. Currently, that is not an option. You will need to convert the quiz from Classic Quiz to New Quiz. Here are the steps.

Disable Notifications for Students

How to disable notifications for students for a particular course they are enrolled in but is not necessarily a class, i.e., TCC Health Services.

Forwarding Gmail to Employee Email for Student Workers

This article is to assist when updating a Students log in from a @my.tccd.edu account to an SW-first.last@tccd.edu. Likely you will get the request to change the email in the SIS files so that they can access Canvas and the courses they are taking as students. The change of email will need to be confirmed on Colleague NAE screen. Thereafter if the student chooses to have the Gmail emails forwarded to the SW account in Outlook. These are the steps they will need to take.

Google Chrome Proctorio Extension for Canvas

Fix for Google Chrome Proctorio Extension download issue.

How to Copy/Import a Course in Canvas

A guide on importing and copying course content in Canvas

How to Create a Course in Canvas

Guide on creating a Sandbox Shell in Canvas.

Moving from Proctorio to Respondus Lockdown Browser - Classic Quizzes

A Knowledge Base article going over the process of moving from using the "Proctorio" proctoring service to the "Respondus Lockdown Browser" proctoring service on Classic Quizzes being offered through Canvas.

Moving from Proctorio to Respondus Lockdown Browser - New Quizzes

A Knowledge Base article going over the process of moving from using the "Proctorio" proctoring service to the "Respondus Lockdown Browser" proctoring service on New Quizzes being offered through Canvas.

My Course is Not on My Dashboard (Student)

This article explains how to troubleshoot a student's report of not seeing their course in Canvas.

My display name in Canvas has my last name twice.

User reports that their last name is displayed double in Canvas.

Process Incompletes - Manual

LMS Admin's will receive the "Canvas I students Report" E-Mail on the 1st and 15th of each month. While we are working with the Application Development team to automate the process this will need to be managed manually.

Requesting a New Organization

When a new organization is requested, this is the method that the requestor will need to follow these steps to submit the request.

Setting up your Preferred Email in Canvas

An article going over how to set up a preferred Email in canvas so that the user will receive E-Mails at a different E-Mail then they are using to sign in to the system.

Show Grades for Inactive Students or Past Course

Instructors might request assistance with viewing grades from courses that have closed out. By default, Canvas will hide the grades an instructor or admin can view them by following these steps.

TCC Plus Setup

A Knowledge base article going over the process of setting up the "Course Materials" tool for courses with a TCC Plus component.

Update Course Section Student Participation Date Range

Students have access to their course 7 days before and 30 days after it ends. The Section start/end dates and participation checkbox may be updated to allow students the option to submit work a few days before or during the grading period.

Upload Error: Something went wrong, check your connection, and try again

Upload errors caused by personal file storage limitations.

What is Canvas and How to Manage Files

Canvas is the digital classroom tool used by TCCD. This article gives a broad overview of what Canvas is, and how to store, share, and delete information.