Note: If course content has not been copied into your course and you cannot access a previous term's course, please contact your program coordinator.
General Guides
- Canvas Instructor Guide (Instructure Community)
- ODU Canvas Quickstart Guide (PDF)
- Canvas for Instructors: ODU Resource Page
Checklist
The following checklist can serve as a succinct list of to-do items with relevant support documentation in order to get your course online quickly.
Please note: Not all items apply to every course. Resource links connect to Instructure's Canvas Community Guides unless otherwise noted.
If content has already been copied into your course for the new term, skip Part 1 and proceed to Part 2: Update and Publish Your Course.
If your course's content has already been copied into your course, skip this section and proceed to Part 2.
Reset your new course shell to prepare for your course copy/import to avoid duplicate content from the default template.
- Step 1: Open your course and, from the Course Navigation Menu, click Settings.
- Step 2: Choose Reset Course Content on the right side of the page. Read the warning pop-up carefully before choosing Reset Course.
- Warning: This is a permanent action that cannot be undone.
Copy/Import course content into a blank course shell.
Update the Instructor Information page and course Home Page if one is provided in your course copy.
Check the course syllabus and update it as needed.
Update assignments and associated dates as needed.
- How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates as an instructor?
- How do I add or edit details in an assignment?
Check/Update/Add any relevant course content.
Verify all links within your course are functioning properly.
Check the course using Student View before publishing your course.
Publish your updated course.
Verify that Respondus Lockdown Browser has no errors.
- Copying a Canvas Quiz With Respondus Lockdown Browser From One Course to Another (Bowling Green State University)
Verify SmarterProctoring is set up properly for quizzes/exams.
- Add SmarterProctoring to the course navigation menu
- Set up exams within SmarterProctoring
- SmarterProctoring - Instructors (SmarterProctoring-ZenDesk)
Update your faculty profile within the Canvas Global Navigation menu.
- 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?
- How do I add a profile picture in my user account as an instructor?
- How do I select personal pronouns in my user account as an instructor?
- How do I change the language preference in my user account as an instructor?
- How do I set a time zone in my user account as an instructor?
Update your account-level and course-level notification settings.
- How do I manage my Canvas notification settings as an instructor?
- How do I manage notifications for a single course as an instructor?
- Note: Instructors cannot control notification settings for students
Explore Further
Learn more in our self-paced course, Preparing Your Online Course for a New Term