Canvas Help Articles

Attending a Canvas Conference as a student.

How to use the Canvas Conferences tool

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.

The Files tool in 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

Learn how to restore deleted items in your Canvas course.

Previously recorded Canvas workshops.

How to remove the test student from your Canvas course.

Teams Meetings integration was introduced to SVSU Canvas on 8/17/21.  This is a new process that makes creating and accessing Teams meetings easier while remaining in the Canvas interface. Create Teams meetings and invite all enrolled students to the meeting. Set Teams meeting options to change students from presenter to attendee role

This article shows you how to activate your Class Team in the Microsoft Teams app so that you can schedule synchronous meetings inside of the Teams app. This step is not required for using Teams within the Canvas course navigation.

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.

Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.