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How do I publish a course?
If you have permission to publish your course, you can publish your course from the Dashboard, the Course Home Page sidebar, the Course Settings sidebar, or the Course Setup Checklist. Notes: You must publish a course before students can access it and ...
How do I change the start and end dates for a course?
By default, you and your students can participate in courses within the term start and end dates set by ITS. When a Course is using the Term Dates, it will be locked to all users after the term end date. However, as an instructor, you may need to change the p...
How do I assign an assignment to everyone, individual students, or sections?
By default, assignments you create in your course are assigned to everyone. You can specify a due date and availability dates that apply to everyone. You can also assign an assignment to an individual student or a course section. You can also assign an assign...
How do I add an image to a course card in the Dashboard?
If your institution allows, you can upload an image to display behind the course card in the Canvas Dashboard. Accepted images include JPG, JPEG, GIF, and PNG files. To assist with creating Banners for your courses, you can reference the Create Canvas cards w...
How do I cross-list (merge) a section in a course as an instructor?
Cross-listing allows you to move section enrollments from individual courses and combine them into one course. This feature is helpful for instructors who teach several sections of the same course and only want to manage course data in one location. Instructor...
Reusing Course Materials
Canvas Course Import You can copy course content, such as assignments, modules, pages, and discussions, from Canvas courses into other courses. Internal Copy You only have access to copy content from courses in which you are enrolled as a user with instruct...
General Support Resources
If you are having other issues that aren't mentioned above, these resources should help. General Website Issues - Clear Browser Cache Browsers download many files from websites to speed up your experience and prevent wasting your bandwidth redownloading file...
Course Accessibility Tools and Support
Ensuring that all students have equitable access to course materials and learning experiences is a vital part of inclusive teaching. This page provides guidance and resources to help faculty address common accessibility questions and implement best practices i...
Managing Course Access in Canvas: Enrollments, Roles, and Requests
This page provides guidance on how enrollments are managed in Canvas, including automatic integration with Banner, adding assistants, managing access in development and organization shells, and understanding user roles like Observer. Course Enrollments For...
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Faculty Guidance: Student Authentication
Biometric Signature ID (BioSig-ID™) is a third-party tool available within Canvas classes. It is a biometric gesture‑based authentication tool that verifies the student completing coursework is the same person who enrolled by requiring a short biometric pass...
Download and How to Use Instructions
How to Download Respondus Lockdown Browser Go to the A-State Software Downloads page Click on the Download link under header for Respondus LockDown Browser On the page, click on the Install Now or Download button to begin downloading the software onto you...
Respondus FAQ
If a Canvas test taken in Respondus Lockdown Browser gets locked and the student cannot finish the test, the student should reboot the machine to regain control of their computer. However, this method may or may not allow students to regain control of their ...
Lockdown Browser vs. Test Manager
Respondus 4.0 Campus-wide (Test Manager) is a test management software used by faculty to create tests, quizzes, exams, and surveys to administer to students. Respondus Lockdown Browser is a web browser used by students to access and take Canvas quizzes, tests...
Respondus Lockdown Browser
Respondus LockDown Browser is required for online exams in some courses. Your instructor will tell you if it is required for the course. Respondus Lockdown Browser™ is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Canvas. When students use...
LockDown Browser Setup Guide for Instructors
This guide provides instructors with the steps and best practices for using Respondus LockDown Browser in Canvas, including how to enable it, configure exam settings, inform students via the syllabus, and ensure a smooth testing experience. What is LockDown...
TurnItIn
A-State has a contract with Turnitin to provide plagiarism checking for assignments in Canvas. In addition to checking papers for plagiarism, TurnItIn can also check student submissions for AI content. See the links below for help with using TurnItIn with yo...
K16 Scaffold AI-Detection
The university has an account with K16 Solutions that gives us access to their Scaffold AI-Detection system powered by GPTZero. The benefit of this system over Turnitin is that it can compare all the writing a student submits to Canvas, i.e. Quizzes, Assignmen...