Faculty Canvas FAQs

In addition to the LMS Support team and the Office for Teaching & Learning, everyone at Wayne State University has access to the Canvas Guides at community.canvaslms.com/community/answers/guides/.

Canvas Guides provide documentation for all of the tools in Canvas and are available 24/7/365. Use the links below to find documentation on the most common faculty and administrative questions. If your question cannot be answered in this list, please search the Canvas Guides for additional information or contact the Learning Management Support team at lmsadmin@wayne.edu.

Course content

• Copy content from another Canvas course.
• Adjust events and due dates in a course import.

Assignments

• Assignments FAQs.
• Create an assignment.
• Create a quiz.
• Create a discussion.
• Add a rubric.

Modules

• What is a module?
• Create a module.
• Add requirements in a module.

People

• People FAQs.
• Add users to a course.
• Edit user roles in a course.
• Create a group.

Files

• Files FAQs.
• Upload a file to a course.

Course settings

• Change the course home page.
• View a course as a student.
• Cross-list a section.
• Notification preferences.
• Publish a course.
• Add an announcement.
• Send a message to a user group in a course conversation.
• Enter and edit grades in the Gradebook.