Canvas will replace ReggieNet as Illinois State University's officially supported learning management system (LMS) by Fall 2023.
Instructors for spring, summer, and fall will receive periodic updates with important information about ReggieNet course migrations and Canvas learning opportunities. You can also view previous messages in the archive.
All current instructors can now log into Canvas through Canvas.IllinoisState.edu.
You can request to have the content of regular, for-credit courses from past semesters migrated from ReggieNet to Canvas using this form.
To request migration for a non-credit "Special Project/Ongoing Course" site, please use this form.
Faculty can get instructional support by emailing ProDev@ilstu.edu or calling (309) 438-2542.
Students in the Spring 2023 pilot program can get technical assistance by contacting the Technology Support Center at (309) 438-HELP.
Canvas Studio will replace Microsoft Stream (now called Stream Classic) as the officially supported, secure video system for teaching at Illinois State.
Learn more about Canvas Studio and its features.
Use this guide to move your videos from Microsoft Stream to Canvas Studio.
ReggieNet and Canvas share many common tools, but not all of those tool have the same names. This handy guide will help you translate functionality between the two learning management systems.
Instructors can export information from ReggieNet themselves and store in on their own device or in their Illinois State OneDrive account. Check out these guides:
Use these tabs to browse a curated collection of online help resources from Canvas and the larger Canvas community.
You may have already added user enrollments to your course in the Course Setup Checklist. However, you can invite users to join your course at any time if the Add People button is available in the People page.
You can change your Course Home Page to reflect one of five layout options: the Recent Activity Dashboard, Pages Front Page, the Course Modules, the Assignment List, or the Syllabus.
You can import content from another Canvas course in which you are a enrolled as a Teacher. You have the choice to either import the entire course (all content), or to select specific content that you wish to import.
As an instructor, you can control which links appear in Course Navigation. Canvas includes a set of default Course Navigation links; other links may be available and customizable.
Profile and User Settings let you control your personal information in Canvas. Watch video
If you have permission, you can publish your course from the Dashboard, the Course Home Page sidebar, the Course Settings sidebar, or the Course Setup Checklist.
You can create an announcement to share important information with all users within your course and with users in sections of a course. Watch video
This tool helps both students and instructors keep track of all of the assignments planned throughout the term, keeping everyone on schedule and up to date. Watch video
Discussions allows for interactive communication between two or more people; users can participate in a conversation with an entire class or group. Watch video
Groups are a small version of a course and used as a collaborative tool where students can work together on group projects and assignments. Watch video
The Inbox displays messages chronologically. It allows you to view and reply to conversations and sort them by course or type. Watch video
People shows all the users enrolled in your course, either added by your or your institution via SIS import. Watch video
Scheduler is a Calendar tool that creates appointment groups within a course or group. Students can sign up for a time slot within the appointment group.
The Syllabus in Canvas makes it easy to communicate to your students exactly what will be required of them throughout the course in chronological order. Watch video
Grades can serve as a communication tool between students and instructors and allow instructors to track the progress of students. The Gradebook stores all information about student progress in the course, measuring both letter grades and course outcomes. Watch video
The Gradebook helps instructors easily view and enter grades for students. Depending on the Grade display type, grades for each assignment can be viewed as points, percentage, complete or incomplete, GPA scale, or letter grade.
Most likely you will access SpeedGrader to enter grades. However, you can manually enter and edit grades in the Gradebook. Assignments in the Gradebook are always shown with the assignment's point value.
If you want to leave simple feedback for your students, you can leave a text comment directly from the Gradebook.
As an instructor, you can access the Grades page for a student in your course. This Grades page shows you how a student views their grades in the course and allows you to add individual comments to assignments.
You can use a CSV file to upload information for existing assignments, or you can use a CSV file to create new assignments in the Gradebook.
In order to make some aspects of grading easier, you can automatically apply a grade to missing assignments.
Rubrics are a way to set up custom or Outcome-based assessment criteria for scoring. Rubrics can be set up as non-scoring rubrics, which allows for assessment-based and outcome-based grading without points. Watch video
If you cannot find a rubric you want to use in your course, you can create a new rubric. You can add the rubric to an assignment and use the rubric for grading and adding comments. You can manage created rubrics in the Manage Rubrics page.
You can add a rubric to an assignment to help students understand expectations for the assignment and how you intend to score their submissions. In addition to assignments, rubrics can also be added to graded discussions and quizzes.
The Attendance (Roll Call) tool is used for taking attendance in Canvas courses. It can be used for online or face-to-face courses.
Important note: After the first time instructors take attendance using the Roll Call tool, Canvas automatically creates a "Roll Call Attendance" assignment. Instructors will see this assignment in the Assignments tool and as a column in the gradebook. To avoid attendance calculation errors, instructors should not delete, rename, or unpublish the assignment. If the assignment is deleted, the Roll Call tool will not be able to take attendance. By default, the "Roll Call Attendance" assignment is worth 100 points and factors into student's final grades. If you do not want attendance to automatically be calculated this way, you will need to go into Roll Call settings and check the box that says "Do not count attendance toward final grade." To learn more about the Attendance Roll Call tool, see Canvas's instructor guide.
SpeedGrader makes it easy to evaluate individual student assignments and group assignments quickly. You can access SpeedGrader through: Assignments, Quizzes, Graded Discussions, and the Gradebook. Watch video
Assignments include Quizzes, graded Discussions, and online submissions (i.e. files, images, text, URLs, etc.). The Assignments page shows students all of the Assignments that will be expected of them and how many points each is worth. Watch video
You can create assignments on the Assignments page. You can create an assignment shell, which is a placeholder for an assignment within an assignment group, or you can create an entire assignment with all the assignment details.
Canvas supports five assignment types: Assignments, Discussions, Quizzes, External Tools, and Not Graded. As an instructor, you can select an assignment type when creating an assignment shell.
When creating or editing a group assignment, you can assign an assignment to specific groups and set different due dates and availability dates for each group.
Peer review allows communication between students and can help students master the concepts of a course and learn from each other. Peer reviews can be assigned to show student names or display anonymously.
Files can house course files, assignments, syllabi, readings, or other documents, as well as profile pictures and user-specific files. Watch video
Modules are designed to organize content and help control the flow of the course. Each module can contain files, discussions, assignments, quizzes, and other learning materials. Watch video
As an instructor, you can add modules, add items to a module, and manage module settings. You can also reorder all modules and module items.
With modules, you are essentially creating a one-directional linear flow of what you would like your students to do. Once you create modules, you can add content items, set prerequisites, and add requirements.
You can move or reorder entire modules after you've created them. You can manually drag and drop the module, or you can use the Move To option. You can also move or reorder module items.
As an instructor, you can publish or unpublish a module in a course. Unpublished modules are invisible to students.
You can add new or existing content items in Canvas to a module. You can also add an item to multiple modules, or multiple iterations of an item to one module.
You can add an existing quiz or a create a new quiz in a course module.
When you set a module prerequisite, the module is locked until a student completes the required items.
When you add requirements to a module, students must complete the defined requirements within the module before the module will be marked complete.
As an instructor, you can copy a module in a course directly into any active course in which you are enrolled. You can also send a module to other instructors at your institution as well as copy individual module items to other courses.
Pages store content and educational resources that are part of a course or group but don’t necessarily belong in an assignment. Pages can include text, video, and links to files and other course or group content. Watch video
You can view all your pages in your course on the Pages Index Page. As an instructor, you can add new pages, edit pages, and remove pages.
Instructors can publish or unpublish a page in a course. Unpublished content is invisible to students.
Within a page, you can insert links to other Canvas pages within the same course.
You can copy individual pages in one course directly into any active course in which you are enrolled. You can also send pages to other instructors at your institution. When you copy a page, any assets within that page (images, files, etc.) will be included in your page copy.
This Comparison chart shows all the differences between Classic and New Quizzes. There are many common features in Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes but there are several important distinctions which may influence your choice about which one to use.
Why use Classic Quizzes?
Why use New Quizzes?
Classic Quizzes can be migrated to New Quizzes, so if you do import quizzes from ReggieNet you can move them over to New Quizzes later.
Contact ProDev@ilstu.edu if you have any questions.
It is possible for instructors to export both assessments and question pools from ReggieNet's Tests & Quizzes tool. The process requires several steps. Once successfully exported, however, these data can then be important into Canvas for future courses.
You can view all your quizzes in your course on the Quizzes Index page. As an instructor, you can also add quizzes and modify quiz settings.
Canvas has four different types of quizzes: graded quiz, practice quiz, graded survey and ungraded survey.
The quiz tool is used to create and administer online quizzes and surveys.
When you create a quiz, you have a variety of options to choose from within a quiz.
As an instructor, you can publish or unpublish quizzes in a course. Unpublished content is invisible to students, and graded quizzes are excluded from grade calculations.
You can easily import quizzes from programs that create QTI files.
You can add files and images to your quiz questions by linking to your course content and also link course content in the quiz instructions.
Question Banks are a place to house questions that can be added to quizzes across courses or accounts.
You can delete Question Banks that you no longer use.
You can easily share Question Bank questions among several Canvas courses.
When you link a Question Bank to a Question Group, you will see all of the Question Banks that you have built in the same course, and those you have bookmarked in other courses where you are the Instructor.
You can view student quiz results within each quiz in your course by viewing the quiz results page or moderating the quiz.
This feature is designed to help you investigate problems that a student may have in the quiz and gain insight into your quiz questions. Quiz logs are not intended to validate academic integrity or identify cheating for a quiz.
You can view results after one or more students have taken the practice quiz.
If you accidentally published a quiz that needs to be corrected, you can use quiz regrade to edit existing quiz questions and tell Canvas to recalculate student grades.
This Comparison chart shows all the differences between Classic and New Quizzes. There are many common features in Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes but there are several important distinctions which may influence your choice about which one to use.
Why use Classic Quizzes?
Why use New Quizzes?
Classic Quizzes can be migrated to New Quizzes, so if you do import quizzes from ReggieNet you can move them over to New Quizzes later.
Contact ProDev@ilstu.edu if you have any questions.
It is possible for instructors to export both assessments and question pools from ReggieNet's Tests & Quizzes tool. The process requires several steps. Once successfully exported, however, these data can then be important into Canvas for future courses.
Instructors can use this tool to create quizzes using a variety of question types. Quizzes display as assignments in the Assignments page and can be duplicated. Watch video
You can create quizzes using various types of content in each quiz.
Item banks can be used to store questions for use in other quizzes. You can use your item banks in any course where you have permission to create and edit a quiz.
This lesson shows how to add an item from an item bank using the Item Banks button on the Build page. You can also access your item banks when adding content to a quiz.
Delivery settings adjust the way a quiz is delivered to students. To edit the point total, assignment group, due date, availability dates, and the individual students and course sections who will receive the quiz, edit the quiz from the Assignments page.
Most quiz items are graded automatically after a student submits the quiz. However, essay and file upload questions must be graded manually.
You can add feedback to any question created with Quizzes. Students can view your feedback when they view their results after submitting a quiz. You can also add feedback to any answer choice when creating a Multiple Choice question.
You can add accommodations for a student in Quizzes. Accommodation settings include adding or removing time for all quiz attempts, and multiplying time limits by a set multiplier.
You can view student quiz results within each quiz in your course by viewing the moderate page in Quizzes. If a student has multiple quiz attempts, you can also view results of all attempts. You can also print the student's results.