KG Reddy College of Engineering & Technology (Approved by AICTE, New Delhi, Affiliated to JNTUH, Hyderabad
Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
Accredited by NAAC
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Guidelines for Creating Course Website using
CANVAS
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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CHECKLIST
S.NO CONTENT PAGENO
I Modules in CANVAS 3
II Faculty View 4
III Creating CANVAS account 5
IV Creating Course 8
V Adding Students in canvas 10
VI Content Uploading 14
Vii Quality of Learning materials 18
8 Assessment 20
9 Delivery of course content 22
10 Student View 26
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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I. Modules in CANVAS 1. Content Uploading.
• Faculty can create one module for one unit and an additional module foe course
overview which includes course outcomes, syllabus, overview of the course, etc.
• Check with the students view and make sure the content is viewable and downloadable
• Make sure to select the “Sentence case” for renaming of the file
• All the contents uploaded should be Self-explanatory-Students should easily identify the
type of the learning material uploaded in the course websites by renaming it properly
• For Example: If an Assignment on XYZ is created the renaming could be like
“Assignment-XYZ”. Same for the quiz, discussions, etc
• It is mandatory to upload the virtual laboratory links, resources for laboratory courses
2. Quality of Learning materials:
• Avoid scanned copies of written notes, blurred video recording and audio with noise,
etc.
• Create a specially designed learning materials which suits bests for the online modality
• Upload all the relevant content which helps students to access the learning materials due
to the absence of the library facility
• Validate all video content to ensure they’re understandable and re-usable
3. Assessment: • Course instructors should create a mandatory of 2-3 quizzes for each unit
• At least one Assignment with descriptive questions should be create for every chapter
• Other formative assessments like random questioning through apps, Gamifying
assessments are encouraged to follow up with students’ progress on the content learning
4. Delivery of course content: • Canvas conferencing could be selected as the first preference for online lecture delivery
• A Mandatory of 5-10 poll questions should be planned for each class to calculate
student attendance and engaging them throughout the lecture
• All the online lectures should be recorded and should be made available in canvas
• Pre-recorded lectures should be made available at the respective class timings in case
the faculty can’t able to deliver the lecture live.
• Activities conducted through the “Live” lectures should be drafted in the Activity
sheets. Screen shots of the activity including the number of students participated can be
saved for reference.
• Inclusion of discussion threads to encourage discussion outside the classroom.
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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II. Faculty View
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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III. Creating CANVAS account
Creating Canvas Account: Click on https://canvas.instructure.com/login/canvas
Click here if faculty need
to create new CANVAS
account
Click here for
creating new account
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Give details to create the account
Click on get a
free canvas
account
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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Set Password
here
After giving password login
page will be displayed
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IV. Creating the course
Click here to start
a new course
Give the
course name
Click here to create
a course
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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After creating a
course page will be
displayed like this
Click here to
create a new
module
Module Created Click here to add
Sub-module
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V. Adding Students in canvas and sending request to students
Click here to add
Sub-Module
Click on People to
add Students
Click here to add
Students
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Click here to add email id
Click here to
select the Role
Click on can interact
only in this session so
that students will be
able to see only this
Course
After filling all the
fields click on
Next
Click on Check box Add name or
Roll number of the student
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Add name or roll number
Click on Next
Click here to add
student so that
request will be sent to
students
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After sending request the
student need to accept
the request
Students after
accepting the
request
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VI. Content Uploading. • Faculty can create one module for one unit and an additional module for course
overview which includes course outcomes, syllabus, overview of the course, etc.
• Check with the students view and make sure the content is viewable and downloadable
By clicking here faculty
can create module
After creating the course
and module the course
and module should be
published so that the
course is visible to the
students
Click here to
check
student view
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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• Make sure to select the “Sentence case” for renaming of the file
• All the contents uploaded should be Self-explanatory-Students should easily identify the
type of the learning material uploaded in the course websites by renaming it properly
• For Example: If an Assignment on XYZ is created the renaming could be like
“Assignment-XYZ”. Same for the quiz, discussions, etc
•
Student view
will look like
this
Click here so
that again
the page will
redirect and
go to course
While giving Assignment,
Quiz’s, and Discussion etc.
Content upload should be
clear so that the student will
not get confused
Eg: Assignment-Topic name
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• It is mandatory to upload the virtual laboratory links, resources for laboratory courses
Select External
URL to give link
Copy URL
link here
Click here to
Add Item
After adding item
click the tab here
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Click here so
that you can
directly redirect
to virtual lab
After clicking the link
will directly redirect to
the virtual lab
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VII. Quality of learning materials: Avoid scanned copies of written notes, blurred video recording and audio with noise, etc.
• Create a specially designed learning materials which suits bests for the online modality
• Upload all the relevant content which helps students to access the learning materials due
to the absence of the library facility
KG Reddy College of Engineering & Technology (Approved by AICTE, New Delhi, Affiliated to JNTUH, Hyderabad
Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
Accredited by NAAC
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• Validate all video content to ensure they’re understandable and re-usable
We can validate all video
content even the students
can download that and
reuse that.
We can upload the relevant
content that can be used by the
students in their learning.They can
download and save the document
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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VIII. Assessment: • Course instructors should create a mandatory of 2-3 quizzes for each unit
• At least one Assignment with descriptive questions should be create for every chapter
• Other formative assessments like random questioning through apps, Gamifying
assessments are encouraged to follow up with students’ progress on the content learning
Creating
Quiz
Grading Assessment
can be done here for
Assignments
Speed
Grading
can be
done here By Clicking on Grades We
can see the graded results of
the students
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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By Clicking Speed grade
we can see the student’s
assignments without
downloading We can grade the
assignment by giving
marks
Comments and
suggestions can be given
After assessment and
comments we can
submit so that speed
grading can be done.
In the Gradebook we can
see the students
Assessment Results
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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IX Delivery of course content: • Canvas conferencing could be selected as the first preference for online lecture delivery
• A Mandatory of 5-10 poll questions should be planned for each class to calculate
student attendance and engaging them throughout the lecture
Create New
Conference here
By clicking we
can start Poll Add options
here
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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• All the online lectures should be recorded and should be made available in canvas
After filling all the
details we can update
here to create a new
conference
Click on the
check box to
record the
session
Recorded Sessions are
available at concluded
conferences
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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• Pre-recorded lectures should be made available at the respective class timings in case
the faculty can’t able to deliver the lecture live.
• Activities conducted through the “Live” lectures should be drafted in the Activity sheets.
Screen shots of the activity including the number of students participated can be saved
for reference.
Pre-recorded session
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
Accredited by NAAC
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• Inclusion of discussion threads to encourage discussion outside the classroom.
By clicking here we can see the
discussion
Discussion can be done
in this way
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X. Students View
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a)How Student get login to Canvas?
• Student gets a course invitation from the teacher to student registered mail id
• Student gets an invitation from the teacher to accept or decline the cours
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• Shows the canvas login page where student can login canvas with his/her login details.
• Shows the home page of a choose subject in student enrolled courses.
Student can view any
notifications regarding
the course
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b) How Students need to submit Assignments with the reference of Rubrics
• Student can view the assignment by clicking Assignments option.
• Student can view the assignment questions, date of assignment to be submitted, number of
attempts and rubrics i.e. scheme of valuation of each question.
If student clicks assignment the published
Assignments can be viewed
Rubrics
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Chilkur (Village), Moinabad (Mandal), R. R Dist, TS-501504
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• Student can submit the assignment by clicking submit assignment option.
• Student can submit the assignment by choosing the file upload option or text entry or Google
documents also depends upon the student and teacher i.e. the type of Assignment given.
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c) How Discussions can be done?
• Student can discuss by clicking the discussion option
• Student can discuss by clicking the reply option in the given discussion
Student can do discussions with
teacher and students in discussion
module
Student can reply here in reply box
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• Student can discuss by clicking the reply option and add discussion and click post reply to
submit
• Student can see the submitted discussion in discussion
Click this post reply to submit the
discussion
Student replied discussion
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d)How Grading can be seen from Students View
• Student can view grades by clicking grades module
• Student can view the score of assignments submitted and grade for submitted quiz by clicking
grades option
Student can view grades by clicking
grades module
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• Student can view the role of other participants of the course enrolled by using people option.
• Student can view the information in pages i.e. the key points or short notes which is been added
by a teacher.
By using people option Students can see the other
participants of the course enrolled
the key points or short notes can be
seen by clicking the pages option
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• Student can view all the types of files which are added in the course by a teacher.
• Student can view the course syllabus by clicking the syllabus option
Student can see all the files uploaded
for the course by clicking files
Syllabus of course is seen by
clicking syllabus module
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e) How Quiz can be attempted?
• Student can view the published quiz by clicking the quiz option
• Student can attempt the quiz by clicking the take the quiz option
Quiz can be seen by clicking quizzes
option
By clicking this option student can
attempt the quiz
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• Student can attempt the quiz by clicking the take the quiz option so students can view the questions
• Student can submit the quiz by clicking the submit quiz button
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• Student can view all the course content in modules option as per unit wise
f)How to Join in Conference?
• Student can join the conference by clicking the join option for started conference i.e. virtual class
Click this option for joining the
conference
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• Student can join the conference by clicking the microphone option.
• Student can view this screen when they successfully joined the conference.
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