Quick Start Guides
The following quick start guides and tutorials have been created to help you easily create content online.
Accessibility Basics Guide (pdf)
Adding Captioned Zoom Recordings to Canvas (pdf)
Canvas Communication Quick Guide (pdf)
Digital Accessibility Quick Guide (pdf)
Extending Quiz Time in Canvas (pdf)
Getting Started with Canvas – Instructor Checklist (pdf)
Video Guides
Design Tool Templates
Use any of a variety of templates for your course. There are homepage templates and also student guides that can be inserted into your courses.
Note: This video does not have sound.
Home Page Template
Share Materials in Canvas
Embedding Video in Canvas
Finding Captioned Videos
Make sure your videos are accessible by using captioned videos. Here is how to find captioned videos in Youtube (auto captioned videos DO NOT meet accessibility requirements):
Using Amara to Edit YouTube Auto-Generated Captions
Qwickly Multi Course Tool
Publish Your Course
By default all Canvas courses are unpublished state. A Canvas course will not be available to students until the course start date passes and the course is published. If course start date passes and your course is still not published, students will not be able to access your course content.
See the following video to learn how to publish your course (note: you can slow videos down or speed them up by hitting the setting wheel on the bottom bar of the video):
Using the UDOIT Accessibility Checker
All FC instructors have access to the UDOIT Cloud Accessibility Checker to review courses for potential accessibility issues. Watch this short video to learn how to add the UDOIT tool to your course navigation menu, scan the course, review and correct some common accessibility issues.