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Announcements Redesign
Assignment submissions
- Submit an online assignment
- Upload a file as an assignment submission
- Submit a media file as an assignment submission
- Submit an assignment on behalf of a group
- Submit a text entry assignment
- Enter a URL as an assignment submission
- Use my webcam to take a photo for an assignment submission
- Annotate a file as an assignment submission
Assignment submissions
- Upload a file from Microsoft Office 365 as an assignment submission
- Submit a cloud assignment with Microsoft Office 365
- How do I know when my assignment has been submitted?
- How do I know when my instructor has graded my assignment?
- Download assignment submissions from all my courses
- Upload a file from Google Drive as an assignment submission (not available in NUS)
- Submit a cloud assignment with Google Drive (not available in NUS)
Assignment Enhancements
Assignment Enhancements
Assignment Enhancements
- Submit a media file as an assignment submission
- Enter a URL as an assignment submission
- Submit a Google Drive file or URL as an assignment submission (not available in NUS)
- Submit a Microsoft Office 365 file as an assignment submission
- How do I know when my assignment has been submitted?
- View assignment feedback from my instructor
Discussions
Peer review discussion
- How do I know if I have a peer review discussion to complete?
- Submit a peer review to a discussion
- Find my peers' feedback for peer reviewed discussions
Other Discussion topics
Discussion replies
- Reply to a discussion
- View and sort discussion replies
- Mark discussion replies as read or unread
- Change discussion settings to manually mark discussion replies as read
- Attach a file to a discussion reply
- Embed an image in a discussion reply
- Link to a YouTube video in a discussion reply
- Edit or delete discussion replies
- Like a reply in a course discussion
Discussions Redesign
Discussions Redesign
Personal and group files & folders
- View my user files
- View group files
- Move and organize files
- Rename a file
- Create a folder
- Upload a file to my user or group files
- Bulk upload files to my user or group files
- Upload ZIP files
- Delete a file or folder
- Types of media files you can upload in Canvas
- View my Microsoft Office 365 files in Canvas
- View my Google Drive files in Canvas (not available in NUS)
Getting started
- Log in to Canvas (NUS login differs, sign in via SSO)
- Log out of Canvas
- Use the Canvas Welcome Tour
- Get help with Canvas
- Why can't I access my Course?
Global Navigation
Dashboard
- Use the Dashboard
- View my favourite courses in the Card View Dashboard
- Use the To-do list and sidebar in the Dashboard
- Use the To-do list for all my courses in the List View Dashboard
- Add a To-do item in the List View Dashboard
- View global activity for all my courses in the Recent Activity Dashboard
- View grades in the Dashboard
- Change course nickname
Courses and groups
Profile
Not applicable to NUS users
User Settings
- Change the language preference
- Set a time zone
- Add contact methods to receive Canvas notifications
- Add an additional email address as a contact method
- Manage my Canvas notification settings
- Manage notifications for a single course
- Merge my user account with an account using the same email address
- Change my default email address
- View course content offline as an ePub file
- Generate a pairing code for an observer
- Manage API access tokens
- What feature settings can I enable?
- Manage new features
- Enable the high contrast user interface
Quizzes
- View Quizzes
- View the rubric for a quiz
- Take a quiz
- Take a quiz where I can only view one question at a time
- Answer each type of question in a quiz
- Resume a quiz that I already started taking
- Submit a quiz
- View quiz results
- View quiz comments from my instructor
- How do I know if I can retake a quiz?
- Submit a survey
Rich Content Editor interface
- Add and modify text
- Use the menubar
- Resize the Rich Content Editor
- Insert a table
- Use the HTML view
- Use the Math Editor
- Use the Accessibility Checker
Hyperlinks
- Create hyperlinks to external URLs
- Create hyperlinks to user or group files
- Create hyperlinks to group content
- Edit and remove hyperlinks
- Create a hyperlink from Microsoft Office 365
- Create a hyperlink or embed a file from Google Drive (not available)
Images
Web Services
Web Services
These may not be available.
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