Attach a file to a discussion

The following steps should help you upload a file to your discussion:

1. Go into the discussion and click Reply. This will bring up the editor for your post.
2. At the bottom of the editor you will see a paperclip and the word Attach. Click that.
3. Click Choose File.
4. Locate the file that you want to add to your post and select it.
5. You’ll see the file name appear next to the paperclip. 
6. Now just type in whatever is required to complete the assignment and your file will be posted with your discussion.

That is all there is to it. 

Create quiz banks for each quiz after quizzes are created and populated. Easy!

I had a situation where I wanted to create quiz banks to attach outcome to in Canvas. The problem was that the quizzes were all created from the single Unfiled quiz bank.

How do you create quiz banks without retyping?

Export all of your quizzes:

1. Go to the Settings page.
2. Click Export Course Content on the right side menu.
3. Select Quizzes from the export type menu.

This will create a zip file that you can download the create a zip file that can be downloaded.

Now click Import Content and select QTI Zip file for the content type. Be sure to click the question mark next to Overwrite assessment content with matching IDs so you can make a decision as to whether or not to overwrite the IDs.

This will automatically create a new set of quizzes which each have a corresponding quiz bank associated with them.

Quiz result details and quiz statistics in Canvas

There are a couple of different ways to get to student quiz results in Canvas, but through SpeedGrader is probably the easiest with least clicks. I’m attaching a short video to show you how.

Here are the short instructions:

Individual student scores

1.      Click Grades
2.      Find the person and the assignment you want to check.
3.      Click the upper right corner of the quiz score.

4.      Clicking the More details in SpeedGrader link will bring up the entire assignment for that person.

Quiz statistics

1.  Go to quizzes
2.  Click the quiz you want to view
3. Click Quiz Statistics in the upper right corner
   

Snip screen capture.

This is simply the best simple free tool I have seen for capturing your screen when explaining via email. While I love GIMP for image editing and more complicated tutorials, Snip does an excellent job. 

https://mix.office.com/Snip

Adding courses to the course menu

Adding and removing courses from the Courses & Groups drop down menu:

1.     Click  Courses on the left navigation.
2.    Scroll down and click All Courses.
   
3.    When the page refreshes, go to the course title that you want to add to the menu and click the white star to the left of the title. The star will turn yellow meaning the course has been added to the drop down.
4. You can remove courses already on the Courses menu by clicking the yellow star next to a course. It will turn white, which removes it from the drop down.
   
5. When you go to Courses the next time, the courses that have yellow stars next to them will be visible there.

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Getting images from a Word document into Canvas, and then into a quiz question.

First, let’s save the image from the Word doc, next we’ll upload that image to Canvas, and finally, we’ll link it to the question.

Saving the image:
1. Open the document.
2. Click on the image you want to save, then right click on the same image.
3. Select Save as Picture (see below).
4. Save the image to your computer.

Once you have the picture saved, upload it to Canvas. 
1. In your course in Canvas, click Files on the left navigation. 
2. Click upload. 
3. Locate the file you just saved and upload it. (To save time, save all the images in the word document and then upload them all at the same time.)

Last, link the picture to the question.
1. Go to quizzes and select your quiz. 
2. Click edit.
3. Click the questions tab and create a new question.
4. Click inside the editor box as you would to enter text.
5. On the right side of the screen, you’ll see this: 

Click on the image that you want to insert in the question. It should appear.


Probably the easiest way to do this is to paste the text for the question into a new question first, and then click the cursor to the place where the image would go. Then select your image as you see above.

I got the idea for this blog based on the interaction that I have with faculty working with Canvas. I'm constantly sending off email with short tutorials and observations about the platform, and  it seems a natural that I put them up somewhere where they can be equally helpful, or perhaps confusing to others. So the concept is to provide some alternative sources for doing stuff in Canvas. Hopefully someone will find these useful....

-Lloyd