Review Your Auto-Migrated Courses
Modified on: Tue, Mar 25 2025 1:34 PMNavigate to your Canvas Course
- Log in to Canvas at https://gfcmsu.instructure.com.
- When you log in, you will be in your Canvas dashboard.
- Select the desired course by clicking on the course card.
Note: Depending on where we are in the migration schedule, you may not see all your courses immediately. However, all courses that will be migrated for you will appear by July 2025.
Review and Organize Your Course
Since migration is not always seamless, you must review and edit your content before sharing it with students. Keep in mind that some content may not transfer as expected.
Create New Content
Some migrated content elements may not transfer well and will require rebuilding. Canvas offers a versatile toolkit for creating new content, including pages, assignments, discussions, quizzes, links, documents, and external tools.
| Tool | Documentation |
Video |
|---|---|---|
| Announcements - Quick way to communicate with students. | Announcement Documentation | Announcement Tutorial Video |
| Pages - Platform for presenting course materials | Pages Documentation | Pages Tutorial Video |
| Assignments - Track student progress and facilitate feedback. | Assignments Documentation | Assignments Tutorial Video |
| Quizzes - Assess student understanding with various question formats. |
Quizzes Documentation | Quizzes Tutorial Video |
| Discussions - Foster collaborative learning environments. | Discussions Documentation | Discussions Tutorial Video |
| Modules - Structure the flow of your course and its content. | Modules Documentation | Modules Tutorial Video |
| LTIs - Tools like Panopto that are integrated external tools to support your course. | LTIs Tutorial Videos |
Set Up the Gradebook
Each assignment's grades can be calculated as points, percentages, complete or incomplete, pass or fail, GPA scale, and letter grades. Assignments can be organized into groups for weighting. Gradebook only shows graded assignments, discussions, quizzes, and surveys published. "Not Graded" assignments will not be shown. “Not Graded” assignments will not be shown.
To get started, review the written Gradebook Tutorial or the Gradebook Video.
Weighting Grades
You can organize your graded Canvas activities into groups such as "quizzes" or "homework." When you select this option, you assign a weight to the assignment group rather than to individual assignments. Canvas calculates the grade by dividing the total points a student has earned by the total possible points for all assignments in that group.
For detailed instructions, refer to the Weight Your Gradebook Tutorial or Video.
Copy Course
Once your content is complete in your shell and your live course becomes available before the start of the semester, you can copy your content over using the Copy a Canvas Course Tutorial.