Migrating from D2L to Canvas: Instructors
What is the purpose of this campaign?
The purpose of this campaign is to help former D2L instructors who are new to Canvas orient themselves with the new environment, and provide them with the necessary support to get started.
Tool categories
🔧 The 'Course Pacing' tool category should be toggled on before importing the campaign on to display the content. Click here to find out how to manage tool categories in your dashboard.
Message placement
📌 Dashboard 📌 Course Home Page 📌 Announcements Page
📌 Modules Page 📌 Assignments Page 📌 Discussions Page
📌 Quizzes Page 📌 Files Page 📌 Peoples Page
📌 Gradebook Page 📌 New Analytics Page
Support Articles
- How do I use the Global Navigation Menu as an instructor?
- How do I view my favorite courses in the Card View Dashboard as an instructor?
- How do I use the Dashboard as an instructor?
- How do I manage my Canvas notification settings as an instructor?
- How do I use the To Do list and sidebar in the Dashboard as an instructor?
- How do I change the Course Home Page?
- How do I manage Course Navigation links?
- How do I use the Course Home Page as an instructor?
- What are Announcements?
- How do I add an external RSS feed to an announcement as an instructor?
- How do I use the Modules Index Page?
- How do I add an external tool as a module item?
- What are Assignments?
- What assignment types can I create in a course?
- How do I create a hyperlink or embed a file from Google Drive into the Rich Content Editor as an ins...
- How do I access the Rich Content Editor as an instructor?
- What are Discussions?
- How do I create a discussion as an instructor?
- How do I pin a discussion in a course?
- What are Quizzes?
- What quiz types can I create in a course?
- How do I create a survey in my course?
- How do I create a question bank in a course?
- What are Files?
- How do I restrict files and folders to students in Canvas?
- How do I upload a file to a course?
- How do I preview a file as an instructor?
- How do I create a folder in Files as an instructor?
- How do I use the People page in a course as an instructor?
- How do I view user details for an enrollment in a course?
- How do I view a summary of all my student interactions in a course?
- How do I view all groups in a course as an instructor?
- How do I use the Gradebook?
- How do I enter and edit grades in the Gradebook?
- How do I use the Notes column in the Gradebook?
- How do I arrange columns in the Gradebook?
- What is New Analytics?
- How do I send a message to all students based on specific course criteria in New Analytics?
- How do I view analytics for an individual student in New Analytics?
- How do I send a message to an individual student in New Analytics?
How can the impact of this campaign be measured?
Campaign engagement
Views on messages & links on support included inside messages
Views on support articles included in this campaign
Average tool adoption
Monitors have been placed on the following pages/elements as data points to define the use of the tool