Collaborations provide students a shared workspace for a group project or whole class assignment. Using Office 365, create a collaboration where students can work simultaneously on a shared word processing document, spreadsheet, or slideshow.

This page reviews how to allow specific students to access a course after the term ends in order to finish an incomplete.  It also explains how to properly "close" a Canvas course and what restrictions that introduces.

It is not recommended that instructors keep courses "open" merely to have access to the materials to use in future courses.  Doing so keeps the course open for all the students, which they may not want to see.  Instead, instructors should create a 'sandbox' shell in their account with no enrollments and store the course materials there.

Viewing the Calendar

The calendar provides a great place to view your course due dates, timelines, and to get organized. This is created automatically for each user and is easy to use.

Every user has their own calendar in Canvas that displays a combination of personal events and events or dates coming from courses.

Setting Up Attendance in a Course

Whether your course is occurring live over Zoom or in person, you can use Canvas's Attendance tool to keep track of student attendance.

In general, the workflow is as follows: