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Chapters

Introduction 16
- Where do I find more help for students?
- How do I log in to Canvas?
- How do I sign up for Canvas as a Student?
- How do I reset my password?
- How are Students added to a course?
- How do I view my courses?
- How does Canvas work as a supplement to face-to-face courses?
- Why can't I access my Course?
- How do I get help and submit feedback?
- What is the Dashboard?
- How do I use the Global Navigation Menu?
- How do I customize my Courses dropdown menu?
- How do I logout of Canvas?
- How do I navigate a Canvas course?
- What are Course Navigation indicators?
- How do I drop a Canvas Network course?
Announcements 14
- How do I use the Announcements Index Page?
- How are Announcements listed?
- How do I view an Announcement feed?
- How can I get Announcements on Facebook?
- How can I get Announcements on Twitter?
- How do I subscribe to an Announcement Feed?
- How do I reply to an Announcement?
- How do I make an Announcement?
- How do I add content to my Announcement?
- How do I add an external (RSS) feed to my Announcement?
- How do I edit an Announcement?
- How do I delete an Announcement?
- How can I get Announcements on my phone?
- How can I get Announcements through my email?
Assignments 25
- What are Assignments?
- How do I view Assignments?
- How can I view my Assignments for only one course?
- What are the different Assignment types?
- How do I group Assignments by type in a course?
- How do I download Assignment instructions?
- How do I view the Rubric for an Assignment?
- How do I submit an online assignment?
- How do I upload a file to my Assignment submission?
- How do I add multiple files to my Assignment submission?
- How do I add images to my Assignment?
- How do I add media to my Assignment?
- How do I know when I have turned my Assignment in?
- How will I know when my Instructor has graded my Assignment?
- How do I view instructor comments?
- How do I view Rubric results for my Assignment?
- How do I communicate with my Instructor about Assignments?
- How do I submit an Assignment in behalf of my Group?
- What is a peer review Assignment?
- How do I submit a peer review to an Assignment?
- How do I know if I have a peer review to complete?
- Where can I find my peers' feedback for peer reviewed assignments?
- How do I use the Submission Details page for an Assignment?
- How do I submit a Turnitin Assignment?
- How do I view Turnitin results for an Assignment?
Calendar 9
- How is the new Calendar different from the old Calendar?
- What is the Calendar?
- How do I view the Calendar?
- How do I filter my Calendar view by course?
- How do I add a personal reminder to my Calendar?
- How do I access my group Calendar?
- Where can I find the Calendar iCal feed?
- How do I subscribe to the Calendar Feed using Outlook?
- How do I subscribe to the Calendar Feed using Google Apps for Education?
Chat 1
- How do I join the course Chat?
Collaborations 6
- What are Collaborations?
- How do I join a Google Docs collaboration?
- How do I add people to my Collaboration?
- How do I start a new Google Docs Collaboration?
- How do I delete a Google Doc Collaboration?
- How do I edit a course Page?
Conversations 23
- How do I adjust my Notification Preferences for Conversations?
- How do I access the Conversations Inbox?
- How is my Conversations Inbox organized?
- How do I find my unread messages in Conversations?
- How many messages are in this Conversation?
- What do comments from the SpeedGrader™ look like inside Conversations?
- How can I tell which course this Conversation belongs to?
- How do I privately respond to an individual in a larger Conversation?
- How do I forward a message from a Conversation?
- How do I delete a message from a Conversation?
- How do I unsubscribe myself from a Conversation?
- How do I archive a Conversation?
- How do I compose a message?
- How do I reply to a message in Conversations?
- How do I send a private message to my instructor?
- How do I send a private message to an individual?
- How do I send a message to multiple individuals?
- How do I start a Conversation with a Student Group?
- How do I send a message to my class?
- How do I delete a name from the To: field?
- Where is my original message in this Conversation?
- How do I attach a file to a message?
- How do I attach a media comment to my message?
Discussions 11
- How do I use the Discussion Index Page?
- How do I start a new Discussion?
- How do I reply to a Discussion?
- How do I edit or delete my Discussion posts?
- Why can't I see other responses to the Discussion?
- How do I link to a YouTube video in a Discussion reply?
- How do I mark Discussion posts as read or unread?
- How do I manually mark my Discussion posts as read?
- How do I insert an image file to a Discussion reply?
- How do I subscribe to a course podcast?
- How do I attach a file to a Discussion reply?
ePortfolios 26
- What is an ePortfolio?
- How do I create a new ePortfolio?
- Where are my ePortfolios?
- What is the ePortfolio dashboard?
- What is the ePortfolio Getting Started Wizard?
- How do I use the ePortfolio Getting Started Wizard?
- How do I organize my ePortfolio?
- How do I create a new ePortfolio section?
- How do I change the name of my ePortfolio?
- How do I organize my ePortfolio pages?
- How do I change the name of an ePortfolio section?
- How do I edit the default page in my ePortfolio section?
- How do I create a new page in my ePortfolio section?
- How do I edit the name of an ePortfolio page?
- How do I preview a page in my portfolio?
- What content can I add to my ePortfolio page?
- How do I add rich text content to my ePortfolio page?
- How do I add HTML/Embedded content to my ePortfolio page?
- How do I retrieve Assignments from previous courses?
- How do I upload a file or image to my ePortfolio page?
- How do I enable comments in my ePortfolio?
- How do I make comments public in my ePortfolio?
- How do I download the contents of my ePortfolio?
- How can I share a private ePortfolio?
- How do I make my ePortfolio public?
- How do I delete my ePortfolio?
Files 11
- How does file storage work?
- Where are my personal Files?
- Where are my course Files?
- How do I create a folder in Files?
- How do I add a file to my personal Files?
- How do I preview a File?
- How do I import .zip files?
- How do I move and organize my files?
- How do I delete a file?
- How do I download a single file?
- How do I download a folder in .zip format?
Grades 5
- Where are my grades?
- How do I check my What-If Grades?
- Why is an assignment grayed out in my grades?
- What is a muted assignment?
- How do I change how often I receive grade notifications?
Mobile Apps - General 2
- How do I find my institution's URL to access Canvas on mobile apps?
- Will Canvas work on my mobile device?
Mobile - Android 16
- How do I access Canvas using an Android mobile browser on my phone?
- How do I download the Canvas for Android app on my phone?
- How do I login to the Canvas for Android app on my phone?
- How do I use the Canvas for Android app on my phone?
- How do I access Assignments on the Canvas for Android app on my phone?
- How do I access Assignment Submission comments on the Canvas for Android app?
- How do I access Grades on the Canvas for Android app on my phone?
- How do I access Conversations on the Canvas for Android app on my phone?
- How do I send a message in Conversations on the Canvas for Android app on my phone?
- How do I send a message to multiple recipients in Conversations on the Canvas for Android app on my phone?
- How do I reply to a message in Conversations on the Canvas for Android app on my phone?
- How do I access Discussions on the Canvas for Android app on my phone?
- How do I reply to a Discussion on the Canvas for Android app?
- How do I access Files on the Canvas for Android app?
- How do I access Announcements on the Canvas for Android app on my phone?
- How do I reply to an Announcement on the Canvas for Android app on my phone?
Mobile - iPad 25
- How do I access Canvas using a mobile browser on my iPad?
- How do I download the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I login to the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I customize my courses in the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I access Announcements on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I reply to an Announcement on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I access Assignments on Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I submit Assignments on Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I submit an assignment from Dropbox to Canvas for iOS on my iPad?
- How do I submit an assignment from Google Drive to Canvas for iOS on my iPad?
- How do I make a comment about my Assignment on Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I verify my Assignments were submitted on Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I resubmit an Assignment on Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I subscribe to a Calendar feed on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I unsubscribe to a Calendar feed on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I access Conversations on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I reply to a Message in Conversations on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I add an attachment in Conversations on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I view the recipients in a group message in Conversations on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I send a Message to multiple recipients in Conversations on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I send a Message in Conversations on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I access Discussions on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I add an attachment to a Discussion on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I reply to a Discussion on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
- How do I access Grades on Canvas for iOS app on my iPad?
Mobile - iPhone 26
- How do I download the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I access Canvas using a mobile browser on my iPhone?
- What do text message notifications look like on my iPhone?
- How do I login to the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I use the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I access Announcements on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I reply to an Announcement on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I access Assignments on Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I submit Assignments on Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I submit an assignment from Dropbox to Canvas for iOS on my iPhone?
- How do I submit an assignment from Google Drive to Canvas for iOS on my iPhone?
- How do I verify my Assignments were submitted on Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I make a comment about my Assignment on Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I resubmit an Assignment on Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I subscribe to a Calendar feed on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I unsubscribe from a Calendar feed on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I access Conversations on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I send a message in Conversations on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I reply to a message in Conversations on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I send a message to multiple recipients in Conversations on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I view the recipients in a group message in Conversations on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I add an attachment in Conversations on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I access Discussions on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I reply to a Discussion on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I add an attachment to a Discussion on the Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
- How do I access Grades on Canvas for iOS app on my iPhone?
Modules 5
- What are Modules?
- How do I use Modules?
- How do I expand or collapse Module contents?
- Why can't I access a Module?
- What do the icons represent in Modules?
People and Groups 10
- Who are the People in the course?
- What are Student Groups?
- How do I view Groups?
- Which Groups am I enrolled in?
- How do I join a Student Group?
- How do I create a Student Group?
- How do I store and share Files within my Group?
- How do I start a Discussion with my Group?
- How do I send a message to a group?
- How do I start a Collaboration with my Group?
Profile and Settings 10
- How do I access my Profile and personal Settings?
- How do I edit my Profile?
- How do I add a Profile picture?
- How do I change my Full Name, Display Name and Time Zone?
- How do I change my login password?
- How do I add an additional email address in Canvas?
- How do I add my cell phone number to Canvas to receive texts?
- How do I set my Notification Preferences?
- How do I configure Canvas Notifications in Facebook?
- How do I change the language preference in my user account?
Quizzes 10
- What do Quiz results look like in Canvas for students?
- What do one-question-at-a-time quizzes look like in Canvas?
- Where can I find my Quizzes?
- How do I take a Quiz?
- What type of questions are on a Quiz?
- How do I save my Quiz?
- How do I submit a Quiz?
- How do I know if I can retake a Quiz?
- Can the Instructor give me extra time or extra Quiz attempts?
- How do I submit a Survey?
Rich Content Editor 6
- What is the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I upload a video using the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I create a caption file for an external video?
- How do I create captions for new or uploaded videos in Canvas?
- How can I embed images from Canvas into the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I view captions in a video?

Where can I find the Calendar iCal feed?

Once you click the Calendar Feed link, copy the link and paste it into any calendar app that takes iCal feeds.

Locate Calendar Link

Click the Calendar link.

View Calendar

View Calendar

After clicking on the Calendar link, you will see the Calendar for everything you are enrolled in.

Locate Calendar Feed

Locate Calendar Feed

Find the Calendar Feed link to subscribe to a feed.

View Calendar Feed Link

View Calendar Feed Link

Once you click the Calendar Feed link, copy the link and paste it into any calendar app that takes iCal feeds. The calendar apps that take iCal feeds are Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook, Yahoo Calendar, etc. To view the Canvas Calendar in your iCal on you MAC, just click here to view the feed.

Open iCal

Open iCal

To subscribe to the Canvas Calendar, just click OK and it will automatically put the events on your iCal.

View iCal

View iCal

Now all your events are in your iCal!

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