Canvas is Stevens' Learning Management System. It is a power tool to help manage your course, deliver your materials, collaborate with your class, assess your students and distribute grades. Do you have a question or an issue? Contact us using the Service Desk!
You (and your students) can access Canvas from the MyStevens portal page: www.stevens.edu/mystevens. Use your Stevens email address and password to log in.
To learn about how to achieve the academic requirements in Canvas courses, please check out the step-by-step instructions, articles and/or video tutorials below:
Topics
Start-of-the Semester Checklist
Syllabus
Files
Grading Schemes
Assignments
Modules allow instructors to organize content to help control the flow of the course. Modules are used to organize course content by weeks, units, or topics.
A page can be used to create content. Pages can include text, images, video, and links.
Files can house course files, syllabi, readings or other documents, as well as profile pictures and user-specific files. Files can be placed in Modules, Assignments, or Pages.
You can copy course content such as assignments, modules, pages, and discussions from previous Canvas courses into existing courses.
Use to communicate and share information with everyone in the course.
Like emails. Inbox can be used to reach all students, individual students or a group of students.
Instructors can use Discussions to create, view and manage graded and ungraded discussions in the course.
The Chat tool in Canvas allows you and your students to interact in real-time.
Students can use Google Docs to work collaboratively on tasks like group papers or note-taking. Documents are saved in real-time, meaning a change made by any of its users will be immediately visible to everyone.
Incorporates all features of announcements, pages and Google Docs plus areas for file sharing, discussions and conferences.
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Instructors can use Assignments to create and track graded and ungraded assignments, including online and offline submission and no submission. Creating assignment groups will allow you assign a weight (percentage of overall course grade) to specific groups of assignments.
The quiz tool is used to create and administer online quizzes and surveys.
The Gradebook helps instructors easily view and enter grades for students. Only graded assignments, graded discussions, graded quizzes, and graded surveys that have been published display in the Gradebook.
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Track student data using an interactive chart or table.
Student Context Cards
View a summary of student participation in a course.
FAQs
Additional Canvas Resources:
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