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Hege Library & Learning Technologies

Canvas for Instructors

This guide provides an overview of Canvas, Guilford College's LMS, for instructors who use it as an online home for their courses.

Canvas Commons

From Canvas: what is Canvas Commons?

"Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share resources. A digital library full of educational content, Commons allows Canvas users to share learning resources with other users as well as import learning resources into a Canvas course."

325 - Commons Overview from Instructure Canvas Community on Vimeo.

Attendance

From Canvas: what is the Roll Call Attendance tool?

"The Attendance (Roll Call) tool is an external app (LTI) used for taking attendance in Canvas courses. The Attendance tool can be used for online or face-to-face courses. Enabled at the account level, the Roll Call Attendance tool can be used by all courses in the Canvas account.

The Attendance tool always appears as a visible Course Navigation link, but it cannot be viewed by students, so hiding the link in Course Settings is not necessary. If instructors do not want to use the Attendance tool in their courses, no action is required. However, if you do use the Attendance tool, students can view their attendance report through the Roll Call Attendance submission details page."

From the Canvas Guides: