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How do I view Course Analytics? Course analytics will show you activity, assignment submissions, grades, and students. You can view analytics in both active and concluded courses. You can also view published quiz statistics.  Notes: The Analytic...

Below are some general questions and answers about Canvas, the Teacher role, and links to resources to help you be comfortable with Canvas. To learn more, visit the Instructor Guide. Introduction What is Canvas? Canvas is a Learning Management System. To...

You can create an announcement to share important information with all users within your course and with users in sections of a course. In your notification preferences, you can choose to receive notifications for announcements created by you as well as replie...

Canvas includes a set of default notification settings you can receive for your courses. However, you can change the default settings by setting your own notification settings. These settings only apply to you; they are not used to control how course updates a...

You can view analytics in both active and concluded courses. Only active and completed student enrollments are included in the data for New Analytics. Deleted or inactive user enrollments will not generate data. Available analytics include course grade, weekl...

You can view all replies in an announcement by scrolling or searching content. Announcement replies are hierarchical, collapsible, and expandable. Note: Not all announcements may allow replies. Additionally, announcement replies may be disabled in Course Sett...

You can attach a file to an announcement for users to download. Open Announcements In Course Navigation, click the Announcements link. Add Announcement Click the Add Announcement button. Attach File C...

After the Attendance tool has been enabled for your course, you can configure the attendance tool to meet the needs of your students. However, some items cannot be configured until after your course is published and students have accepted the course invitation...

After the first time you take roll call, Canvas automatically creates an assignment for Roll Call Attendance and adds a column to the Gradebook. By default, attendance is worth 100 points. To avoid Attendance calculation errors, you should not delete, rename,...

You can drag and drop the students in your course to create a seating chart for your classroom. Once you have created your seating chart, learn how to take roll call in your course. Note: Currently Roll Call does not support a seating chart print option. How...

Once you have configured the Attendance tool, Roll Call Badges are a versatile way to make quick notations about your students using the Roll Call attendance tool. For example, you can quickly mark when a student is disruptive or actively participating in the ...

You can run reports to review attendance data for your students. This report is sent to your email, where it can be downloaded as a comma separated value (CSV) file. Reports are delivered in a CSV format and display all content in a list. Reports always inclu...

If you are allowed to create Canvas courses, you can copy a course and create a new course shell. Copied courses are added to the same subaccount as the course that is copied. Courses should be copied when you want to use or repurpose previously created conte...

You can copy course content such as assignments, modules, pages, and discussions from previous Canvas courses into existing courses. You can also bulk migrate quizzes from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes. You can only copy content from courses in which you are...

If you have a Canvas course export package from someone else that you want to use in Canvas, or you have previously exported a course, you can import the course as a Canvas course export package. An export package is imported as an IMSCC file. Notes: W...

Below are some general questions and answers about Canvas, the Student role, and links to resources to help you be comfortable with Canvas. Visit the Student Guides to learn more. Introduction What is Canvas? Canvas is a Learning Management System. To learn...

Steps to Convert a Classic Quiz into a Question Bank: Export the Classic Quiz Go to Settings in your course. Click Export Course Content. Select Quiz as the export type. Choose the quiz you want to export and click Create Export. Download the QTI ZIP...

Open the course and click on Settings at the bottom of the left-hand course menu. In the Settings, click on the Apps Click the “View App Configurations” button. Click the “+App” button to open the “Add App” settings menu. Under Configuration Type, select...

Honorlock is an online proctoring tool that allows students to complete secure exams on-demand under proctor guidance without the need to schedule them. They use a combination of artificial intelligence technology, website/multi-tab blocking BrowserGuard, and ...

Using Honorlock with Canvas (pulled from the Honorlock Knowledge Base: https://honorlock.kb.help/using-honorlock-with-canvas/) 7 min. read  last update: 07.08.2025     Honorlock now provides native support for both Canvas Classic Quizzes and Canvas New...