Student Canvas Tutorials

There are various options for turning in your work to Canvas assignments including file uploads, text entry, website URLs, and even media recordings from your webcam.

Recommended Help Guides (view all Assignment guides)

• How do I submit an assignment?
• How do I upload a file from Microsoft Office 365 as an assignment submission?
• How do I know when my assignment has been submitted?

 Tip: having trouble keeping track of when assignments are due in Canvas? Please see the Assignments Overview video.

 Tip: you can submit papers directly from your SU Office 365 OneDrive account to Canvas assignments. Please see the Office 365 guide for information on Microsoft tools provided to all SU students.

Discussions allow students to communicate asynchronously (not in real time) with the class. The video and guides below will give you a general understanding of how they work

Recommended Help Guides (view all Discussion guides)

• How do I reply to a discussion as a student?
• How do I view the rubric for my graded discussion?
• How do I embed an image in a discussion reply as a student?

Note: you'll need to upload images into your personal files area in Canvas before embedding them into a Discussion reply. Please see the Canvas guides How do I upload files to my personal Files? and How do I embed images from Canvas into the Rich Content Editor? for instructions.

 Note: the My Media tab in your Canvas courses only shows videos that you've uploaded to Canvas. Professors viewing this tab will only see videos they have uploaded into Canvas, since the My Media tab is specific to each user. Please see instructions below for sharing your videos with professors and classmates.

Recommended Help Guidess

• Uploading Videos to a Canvas Assignment
• Uploading Videos to a Canvas Discussion Reply

• Recording Webcam Video in a Canvas Assignment
• Recording Webcam Video in a Canvas Discussion Reply

• Adding Videos to a Course Media Gallery

Tip: looking to record a short video from your mobile device that you won't need to reuse or edit? Please see guides for the free iOS and Android Canvas mobile apps for instructions to record and attach videos into Canvas Assignments, Discussions, and Inbox Conversations.

• Creating Video Clips (i.e.: edit out parts of your video before submitting to an assignment or discussion)

• Taking a Video Quiz

Technical Support
Please contact the Canvas Support Team to report technical issues using videos in Canvas:

Call (844) 668-0893
-or-
Email: support@instructure.com

Canvas Quizzes can be used by professors to check your understanding of course material. The quiz tool can also be used as an ungraded survey, including the option for anonymous responses. Quiz question can be multiple choice, true/false, and essay responses, among others. Your professor may program automated feedback for you to review upon submitting the quiz or survey.

Recommended Help Guides (view all Quiz guides)

• How do I take a quiz?
• How do I resume a quiz that I already started taking?
• How do I know if I can retake a quiz?

Professors may create student peer review assignments, so you can leave feedback on your classmates' work.

Recommended Help Guides

• How do I submit a peer review to an assignment?
• How do I know if I have a peer review assignment to complete?
• Where can I find my peers' feedback for peer reviewed assignments?

Note: if you do not see Assignment submissions made by other students for you to review even though you know your professor is using peer reviews, it may be because your professor has selected the option that requires you to submit your Assignment before your peer reviews are assigned.

Canvas Groups provide a collaborative workspace for you and your fellow classmates where you can share files, work together on papers, hold video conferences, send announcements, and start discussions. Your professor may create a group assignment, where one group member submits your work on behalf of the group.

Note: your professor has access to all group workspaces in a course

Here's a video showing how groups are administered, and how to create your own group workspace if your professor has allowed that option.

Canvas makes it easy to check your grades and feedback posted by professors. By default, Notifications of new grades and feedback from professors are sent to student SU email accounts with a quick-link to log into Canvas for viewing.

Note: it is highly recommended that you double-check your personal Notifications preferences to make sure you receive important messages from professors in a timely manner

Recommended Help Guides (view all Grades guides)

• How do I view my grades in a current course?
• How do I approximate my assignment scores using the What-If Grades feature?
• How do I view assignment feedback comments from my instructor using Canvas DocViewer annotations?

Professors send Canvas announcements to the entire class, which you will also receive in your SU email. In the example below you see that the Canvas announcement email subject line includes the announcement title and course name [1], the email is sent from the name of your course [2], and the announcement message is included in the email [3]:

You can also view a list of all course announcements by clicking the Announcements tab in the course navigation [1]. Click the title of an announcement to view the message [2]:

Note: it is highly recommended that you double-check your personal Notifications preferences to make sure you receive important messages from professors in a timely manner

Both students and professors use the Canvas Conversations Inbox tool to send messages to one or more recipients. You (and anyone you send a message to) will receive Canvas personal messages in your SU email account by default.

Recommended Help Guides (view all Conversations guides)

• How do I use Conversations as a student?
• How do I send a message to a user in a course in Conversations as a student?
• How do I attach a file to a message as a student?

Note: it is highly recommended that you double-check your personal Notifications preferences to make sure you receive important messages from professors in a timely manner

EvaluationKit is the system used to collect course evaluations from students. You will see course evaluation reminders from EvaluationKit after logging into Canvas.

Help Guides

You can find how-to guides by entering a Canvas course and clicking the Student Course Evaluations link in the course navigation. You will find the Help button on the upper-right corner of the screen:

 Tip: you will be reminded of incomplete course evaluations by a pop-up window upon logging into Canvas, here is what the pop-up will look like:

Technical Support

Support for EvalutionKIT is provided by the EvaluationKIT administrators for each school and college. If you are having questions or are experiencing a problem with EvaluationKIT please contact the appropriate administrator below: