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Instructors can copy course content such as assignments, modules, pages, and discussions from previous Canvas courses into existing courses (entire courses can also be copied). Importing a course more than once may have unintended consequences. If you import content into a new course, edit the content in the new course, and later import the previous content again, the imported content will override the existing content.

Instructors may want to cross-list courses in Canvas when they teach multiple sections of the same course or teach classes that are listed under multiple captions.

A standard set of questions serves as the basis of the course evaluation, but instructors may also add additional questions that would be useful for their courses.

Students and instructors are automatically added to your Canvas course, but this article explains how you can add additional people to a course.

Courses are automatically added to Canvas the semester before they are to occur.

Users are able to manage the courses that are displayed on their individual Canvas dashboard.

Courses you want to show in the Courses drop-down menu are called favorite courses. You can favorite any active course that appears on the course list page.

You can create an announcement to share important information with all users within your course and with users in sections of a course. In your notification preferences, you can choose to receive notifications for announcements created by you as well as replies to announcements you've created. Your course must be published for students to receive announcement notifications. If you import an announcement from another Canvas course, new announcement notifications will not send to course users.

Instructors can copy/import their course content from prior semesters. Using the Canvas Course Import Tool, instructors can choose all content or select specific content from a prior course that they taught and import into their new course.

Towards the end of each semester, students are given the opportunity provide instructor and course feedback using EvaluationKIT. Instructors can view current and past Course Evaluations. Some Deans also request that their Administrative Assistant have access to Course Evaluations in order to help organize and process them. Course Evaluations are access from the User's Canvas account settings.

This is a tutorial on how to create shortcuts to Canvas Courses on the desktop. Over time, you may acquire more courses and it can become difficult to manage all of the course tiles on the Canvas Dashboard. By creating shortcuts, you can more easily manage course tiles.

Canvas courses can be bookmarked in the bookmark bar and inserted into a folder to help with organization and quick access.

Zoom is integrated into Canvas, but instructors must add it to their courses in order to use it.

Instructors can use links in their courses to link to external content (YouTube video, publisher content, etc). It's a good idea to check and make sure that all of the links provided in the course work properly. To do this, Instructors can use the Link Validator Tool.

Instructors can use the Test Student to see the student's perspective on Canvas, use Student View to view the course, post and reply to discussions, submit assignments, view grades, view people, view pages, view the syllabus, view quizzes, etc. Each course has a separate test student.