Welcome to the Canvas Faculty FAQ Page

View our most frequently answered questions on Canvas:

Getting Started

1. How do I view all my Canvas Courses?
2. How do I use the Global Navigation Menu?
3. How do I use the Dashboard?

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Assignments

1. How to use Turnitin AI Writing Detection in Canvas?
2. How do I give extra credit in a course?
3. How do I assign an assignment to an individual student?

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Discussions

1. How to create a group discussion in your Canvas course?
2. How do I delay posting a discussion until a specified date in a course?
3. How do I assign a graded discussion to an individual student?

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Classic Quizzes

1. How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions?
2. How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank?
3. How do I import quizzes from QTI packages?
4. How do I create a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank?
5. How to create a question bank within a course?
6. Once I publish a quiz, how do I use the Moderate Quiz page?
7. Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts?

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New Quizzes

1. What is New Quizzes?
2. How do I import a quiz from a QTI package in New Quizzes?
3. How do I import questions from a QTI package into an item bank in New Quizzes?
4. How do I add an item from an item bank to a quiz in New Quizzes?
5. How do I edit an item bank item in New Quizzes?
6. How do I add all items or an random set from an item bank to a quiz in New Quizzes?
7. How do I use the Moderation page in New Quizzes?
8. How do I moderate a student's quiz attempt in New Quizzes?
9. How do I add accommodations for a student in New Quizzes?

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Groups

1. How do I add a group set in a course?
2. How do I manually create groups in a group set?
3. How do I automatically assign students to groups?

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Course Management

1. How do I import a Canvas course export package?
2. How do I copy a Canvas course into a new course shell?
3. How do I use the Syllabus?
4. How do I use Files?

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Grades

1. How do I use the Gradebook?
2. How do I apply a Missing Submission policy in the Gradebook?
3. How do I apply a Late Submission Policy in the Gradebook?

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