You can sign in to Canvas by going to https://k-state.instructure.com/ and sign in with your eID and password.

You can add observers and TAs to your course at any time. Click the +People button on the People page to add someone. You can search for individuals by using their K-State eID to ensure you find the correct person using their email address, eID, or WID.

Canvas is integrated with KSIS and all sections for the term will be created automatically in Canvas at the section level. Course shells (except 900 level courses) will be created based on the schedule outlined on this page , and once course creation is complete instructors will have the ability to work in their courses. Instructors as listed in KSIS are added to the course and will have access immediately after the courses are created.

Student rosters will automatically be kept in sync with KSIS with student drop/adds happening in near real-time. Changes to the course name/department in KSIS after course creation will not be updated in the Canvas course. To have a 900 level course created, contact the IT Service Desk .

Sections can be combined by crosslisting and instructors can add TAs and other support roles, but not students, to the rosters.

Canvas is designed for maximum compatibility with minimal requirements. Canvas works best in the most recent versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer, and with the most current version of the flash plugin. Be sure to keep your browser and flash player up to date. Please visit the Canvas Browser Compatibility page for more information and support for your browser.

A new course shell is created each term for sections via the automated KSIS course creation process. You may want to reuse material, content, assessments or settings from a previous version of your course from a past term, from another course shared with you by another instructor or from a template course you have created yourself. Copying some or all of the content from another course, you have access to into another course is easy. To learn more, view the step-by-step How do I import content from another Canvas course guide.

Sections are a group of students that have been organized for administrative purposes. When users are enrolled in a course, they are enrolled in one of the sections of that course. It is possible to place more than one section in a course, but it is not possible to put sections within sections. All sections of a course share the same content.

All automatically and manually created courses are unpublished by default. Unpublished courses are courses in preparation. Students cannot access or participate in an unpublished course. Students will see the course listed in ‘Future Enrollments’ section of their Courses menu. When the instructor publishes a course, it becomes subject to the Term Dates for the semester in which the course is taught. Term Dates are the actual start and end date of the terms and define when the course access begins and ends.

By default, students will have access to their courses in Canvas seven days prior to the first day of class. Students will lose access to their courses in Canvas seven days after their last class.

Your officially enrolled students will be managed automatically by KSIS and Canvas. You cannot add students manually to credit courses. For academic support courses that are managed outside of the credit courses may allow adding students. For more information, contact the IT Service Desk.

For step-by-step instructions, view the How to cross-list course sections in Canvas article. Cross-listing allows you to take one section and move it into another course so you can have multiple sections in one course. Since courses in Canvas are created at the section level, “cross-listing” your sections into a single course allows you to teach across the sections. You can follow the steps in the How to cross-list course sections in Canvas or you can have Canvas support assist you. Identify the class/reference numbers for the sections you wish to cross-list and complete this form to receive assistance.

Cross-listing allow allows you to combine sections to distribute a single TEVAL to multiple sections.

You can add extra attempts and time through moderating the quiz or accessing student quiz results. For step-by-step instructions, view the Once I publish my Quiz, how can I give my students extra time or extra attempts guide.

Once students have taken a quiz, you cannot change the question type. However, you can still give the students points as if it were a multiple answer question. You, the instructor, will need to follow these steps: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-5361.

Once you have chosen a second answer, you will have a few options for regrading.

• If you want only two correct answers, choose the option Award points for both corrected and previously correct answers.
• If you want more than two, you will have to choose the above option then save the quiz, and go back to choose the third answer.
• If you want all answers to be correct, choose the option, Give everyone full credit for this question.

As needed, you can use the Gradebook to excuse a student from an assignment, discussion, or quiz. You can also excuse a student from a group assignment. Excused assignments are not calculated as part of a student's total grade. Type an EX in the appropriate cell to excuse the student. For step-by-step instructions on how to excuse an assignment, view the How do I excuse an assignment for a student in the Gradebook guide.

By default, students will have access to their courses in Canvas 7 days prior to the first day of class. Students will lose access to their courses in Canvas 7 days after semester grades are posted in KSIS.

Instructors retain access to their courses for one semester after classes have ended, then the course will be concluded. When a course is concluded, the instructor will have read-only access to the course. For example, instructors can access their fall courses during the following spring semester, but not the next fall. This allows instructors the ability to make changes in the Gradebook and handle incompletes. As a result, instructors will always see courses from their current semester and the past semester in their Canvas course list.

Once a course is concluded, instructor-based roles will no longer have the same access in the course and will result in loss of course functionality and user information. If full functionality is still required for instructors, but the course is set to conclude the instructor must explicitly set an end date of the course. Otherwise, instructors should allow their course to conclude through the automated process. If courses are manually concluded, all enrollments are removed from the course and placed on the prior enrollments page.

If you submit an "I" Incomplete as the grade for a student in KSIS, they will automatically be given access to the same course for the next semester so you they can work with existing content and assessments and coordinate with you to complete the necessary work. If they got a letter grade or no grade, then they are handled by this process.

Approximately 1 week before the start of the next term, a new section named Incompletes will be created in the course and any students with an Incomplete will be automatically enrolled in that section. Instructors can continue to update, re-assign, and work with the student in that course until the work is complete. The section will automatically conclude at the end of that current semester and the instructor does not need to do anything to add or conclude the student in this process; it is all automatic.

The instructor should communicate with the student to access the course and complete any work as needed. Contact the IT Service Desk for any questions about this process.

The Canvas Teacher app is now available for iOS and Android phones and tablets. The Canvas Teacher app allows teachers to manage their courses and use Canvas more efficiently from a mobile device. Canvas Teacher replaces the existing Android and iOS SpeedGrader apps.