Canvas for Instructors

This video from Canvas provides a step-by-step orientation to navigating Canvas, from the Dashboard to the Inbox to your course navigation.

300 - Canvas Overview from Instructure Canvas Community on Vimeo.

The following resources in the Canvas guides will be useful in helping you get acquainted with the Canvas interface and your account settings:

• How do I use the Global Navigation Menu as an instructor?
• How do I edit my profile in my user account as an instructor?
• How do I change the settings in my user account as an instructor? (The personal pronouns feature forthcoming at Guilford!)
• How do I set my Canvas notification preferences as an instructor?
• How do I connect to Google Drive as a web service in Canvas as an instructor?
• if you want to delve in more deeply: What feature options can I enable in my user account as an instructor?

And these resources in the Canvas Guides will help give you an overview of navigating within a specific course:

• How do I use the course Home Page as an instructor?
• How do I use the course navigation menu as an instructor?

From Canvas: what is the Rich Content Editor?

"Canvas has a simple, yet powerful, content editor that is available anytime for creating new content. The Rich Content Editor is used in features that support the editor (Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Pages, Quizzes, or Syllabus).

Although clean and streamlined, the Rich Content Editor is sophisticated enough to support embedding any video content, math formula, and other rich media."

You will see the Rich Content Editor almost anytime you are creating or editing content in Canvas - it looks the same across different types of content, be it an Announcement, an Assignment, a Page...

103 - Rich Content Editor from Instructure Canvas Community on Vimeo.

From the Canvas Guides:

• How do I add and modify text in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
• How do I insert a table using the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
• How do I create a hyperlink in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
• Using video: from YouTube, recording or uploading your own, and adding captions for your own videos.
• How do I use the Accessibility Checker in the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
• How do I insert links to course content into the Rich Content Editor using the Content Selector as an instructor?
• How do I insert course files into the Rich Content Editor using the Content Selector as an instructor?
• How do I insert course images into the Rich Content Editor using the Content Selector as an instructor?
• More on the Rich Content Editor in the Canvas Instructor Guide

Please note that Canvas has created a new Rich Content Editor, and will eventually be replacing the old Rich Content Editor with the new Rich Content Editor. More information on the new editor can be found at https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Basics-Guide/What-is-the-New-Rich-Content-Editor/ta-p/12. You can read walkthroughs in the Canvas Instructor Guide. This feature has been turned on for Guilford College users, so you can enable it in your courses (on an individual basis) from the Feature Options page in Settings (see this walkthrough from Tufts for step-by-step instructions).