Canvas Quick Guide for Students - Groups

This quick guide will provide a brief overview for students on how to set up basic settings and introduce Canvas’ feature of Groups.

Announcement:

To send announcements out to your specific group:

1. On the Canvas main page, click on Groups.

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2. Click on the selected Group to create an Announcement.

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3. The page will redirect to the Group’s Homepage, shown as “Recent Activity”.

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4. On the right corner of the frame, click on “+ Announcement

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5. Another option to make a new Announcement is on the left panel of the Group Homepage. Click on “Announcements” then click on the blue button on the middle screen “+ Announcement”.

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6. On the right-side panel, there is an option to insert links, files, or images to announcement.

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Edit Announcements

To make edits in an announcement:

1. To make any changes to the announcement created, click on Announcements on the left panel of the Group Homepage.

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2. The same user can only make editing changes to the Announcement that is created.

3. Click on the Announcement to be edited.

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4. On the right corner click on the “Edit” button with a pencil to make changes

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5. On the right corner click on the “ Canvas-Student-Tutorial-Groups image ” to mark all as read or delete the announcement.

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Pages:

To create a page in the specific group:

1. On the Canvas main page, click on Groups.

2. Select the desired group name.

3. Now, click on pages as shown below.

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4. Next, click on “+Page” button in the top right corner to create a new page. This will open the page creation menu as shown below.

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People:

To view the people in the specific group:

1. On the Canvas main page, click on Groups.

2. Select the desired group name.

3. Now, click on people as shown below. This will show a list of all group members as well as a list of teachers and TA’s present in the course.

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Discussions:

1. To start a discussion with a Group, click on “Groups”.

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2. Click on the selected Group to start a new discussion.

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3. On the left panel under the Group name, click on “Discussions

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4. Click on “+ Discussion

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5. To allow threaded replies, click on the “Allow threaded replies”.

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6. Click Save to post the Discussion to the Group.