Recent Updates
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Updated on: Aug 27, 2024
How do I view my grades in a concluded course?
You can view your grades for courses that have ended. Depending on the grade calculation for your course, your total grade may display as a point value or as a percentage.
Notes:
- Your instructor may restrict you from viewing grade totals.
- Some institutions may restrict the option to view concluded courses.
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Updated on: Aug 27, 2024
How do I add a comment to a submission as a student?
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Updated on: Aug 26, 2024
Where can I download the Guides PDF manuals?
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Updated on: Aug 23, 2024
How do I view New Analytics in a course as a student?
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Updated on: Aug 23, 2024
How do I use the Syllabus as a student?
The Syllabus helps your instructor communicate course expectations and information. The Syllabus is automatically populated by assignments and events in the course.
Your instructor has the option to set the Syllabus to be the home page for your course as well.
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Updated on: Aug 23, 2024
How do I use the Course Activity Stream as a student?
The Course Activity Stream shows you important recent activities from a single course including announcements, discussions, assignments, and conversations. This stream is similar to the Global Activity Stream in the Dashboard when you first log in to Canvas.
The following activities will cause notifications to appear in the Course Activity Stream:
- New Announcements
- Replies to Announcements
- New Discussions
- New Discussion Posts
- New Assignments
- Assignments, Quizzes, or Discussions Changed from Ungraded to Graded
- Due Date Changes to Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussions
- New Graded Assignments
- New Peer Review Assignments
- New Conversation Messages
Notes:
- Notifications in the Course Activity Stream will not appear for activity in Files, Collaborations, Grades, Pages, or Conferences; ungraded quizzes and surveys; or edits to Discussions.
- Edits to Quizzes and Assignments will only appear in the Course Activity Stream when the Notify users that this content has changed button has been selected.
- If your Course Home Page is already set to view the course stream, the View Course Stream link does not appear in the course sidebar.
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Updated on: Aug 22, 2024
How do I use the Conferences interface as a participant?
Once you have joined a conference as a participant, the Conference interface contains multiple tools to help you have a successful conference. Conferences uses web real-time communications (WebRTC) audio for users of Firefox and Chrome.
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Updated on: Aug 22, 2024
How do I join a conference in a course as a student?
You can join a conference that has already been started by the conference host.
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Updated on: Aug 22, 2024
How do I start a conference in a student group?
You can start conferences that you have created for your group.
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Updated on: Aug 22, 2024
How do I record a conference in a student group?
As part of creating or editing a conference, you can choose to set up your conference to be recorded. Once this setting is enabled, you can start and stop the recording as necessary in the Conferences interface.
After the conference has concluded, the recorded segments will be published as one recording. You can view recorded conferences in the group Conferences page.
Recording Restrictions
- When creating your conference, you must select the record option to record the conference.
- Canvas' standard recording feature will store your recordings in Conferences for 14 days and then remove them automatically.
- Recorded conferences cannot be downloaded.
Note: Creating a conference is a course permission. If you cannot create a conference, your institution has restricted this feature.
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