Helpful knowledge articles on all things Canvas, SVSU's Learning Management System.
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Attending a Canvas Conference as a student.
Canvas Discussion Checkpoints, which allows multiple due dates for discussions.
How to set a different due date for one student
Direct Share allows instructors to copy their content to another course or share content items with another user. Direct Share works with Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions, Announcements, and Pages.
Canvas provides online storage and file sharing in three places: Course Files, Personal Files, and Group Files. This article includes aspects of each place and offers alternative ways to share media with your students and not affect your course quota.
Canvas is the learning management system used at SVSU. Canvas allows instructors to organize their courses and course content so students can find the materials they need quickly and easily. Canvas includes tools for announcements, assignments, quizzes, grades, discussion and more.
Short Canvas How-To Videos for Instructors
Previously recorded Canvas workshops.
How to remove the test student from your Canvas course.
Learn how to restore deleted items in your Canvas course.
Teams Meetings integration is retiring its current workflow and being updated by Microsoft. You may continue to use the instructions in this guide for your spring and summer 2025 classes. On 9/15/2025, you will no longer be able to use the steps in this article. ITS will announce when Microsoft has the new tool, there is no ETA as of today's date 6/16/2025.
This article shows you how to activate your Class Team in the Microsoft Teams app so that all students are added from your Canvas course. You can schedule synchronous meetings, collaborate, screen share, use break out rooms and more.
Resources to assist with the use of Respondus Lockdown Browser and Respondus Monitor.
This article provides student resources on using Respondus LockDown Browser and common frequently asked questions.
Record a video in Microsoft Teams for work or school teams.microsoft.com and share the link to the Canvas assignment. Or record with a video tool of your choice and upload to OneDrive and create a sharable link of the recording for the instructor to grade.
The BigBlueButton tool in Canvas