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New Semester Course Set up

To prepare your course for the next semester, use this Start of Term Checklist. You can copy your course from this semester to setup your course for next semester by using the instructions in Copy Canvas Course. Create a Home page for your students before the course starts, then publish your course with only that page showing. This should be a basic “Welcome to my course” page so students know what to expect from your course. Use Modules to publish the parts of your course when you want them made available to students. Use Canvas Syllabus to automatically create links to assignments based on availability dates. Instructors can see what a student will see if they click on Student View under Settings. Clean up your course for your students Remove any menu items you are not currently using Displaying both Assignments and Modules is confusing for students Make Announcement Titles the same as the actual document names Link Files and Assignments to Announcements when appropriate Organize Assignments by Due Date Re-order Grades to make sense for the student

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Assignments

Everything published in Assignments and ALL Assignment groups show up in Grades. Create Assignment Groups the way you organize grading groups in your Syllabus. Use the same terms and you can provide Weighted Grades which will automatically calculate in Grades Undelete Assignments by changing the URL to have “undelete” at the end. For instance: https://canvas.ivc.edu/courses/15071/undelete

Grades and Grading

Assign a 0 to work the student has not handed in but has been graded for other students. This allows a student to see their current grade, based on not handing in the assignment. If you do not, a student can get a false sense of what their grades actually are. To add a column in the Grade Book, go to Assignments and add and publish an assignment to the appropriate group. Organize your Grade Book by left clicking on the top of the columns and dragging them to where they make sense. Use SpeedGrader to Grade student assignments quickly.