Faculty Tutorials and Guides

  1. WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool - browser extension - when enabled, WAVE will check your Canvas pages for accessibility
  2. Check list for Visual and Organizational Design
  3. Contrast checker
  4. National Standards for Quality Online Courses
  5. W3C Standards at a Glance (ADA compliance)
  6. Proper Standards-Compliant Color Use in Web Design
  7. For more information, visit Canvas Accessibility Guide

Visit the Office of Disability Resources to learn more about student accommodations and creating accessible content.

Getting Started in Canvas

  1. Studio Guide - by Instructure/Canvas
  2. Studio - Computer Requirements
  3. Supported File Formats
  4. Studio - Student Tutorial
  5. Studio Workshop for Faculty (Video - Archived)
  6. Using the Rich Content Editor to Embed Studio Videos and Apps into an Assignment/Page/Discussion
  7. Using Collections to Organize Videos in Studio
  8. Creating Groups in Canvas Studio
  9. Sharing Video to Groups in Canvas Studio
  10. Sharing Videos from Studio
  11. Webcam Checkout - Webcams can be checked out from the Multimedia Lab on the 6th floor in the Houston Cole Library.

 

Course Preparation

  1. Course Readiness Short-Form Checklist (Updated June 2024)
  2. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Verb List (Added October 2024)
  3. Credit Hours, Contact Hours, and Non-contact Hours Defined at JSU (Added August 2024)
  4. Effective Online Course Syllabus (Updated August 2023)
  5. JSU Online Course Evaluation Rubric (Updated October 2024)
  6. Netiquette 1
  7. Student Workload Estimator (Added June 13, 2022)
  8. Faculty Beginning of Term Procedures for Canvas Courses - A few important steps to ensure courses are ready for students.
    • Publishing a Course
    • Open a Course Early in Preview Mode for Students

End of Course Procedures

Create a file folder structure in your OneDrive before you download and save your content.

Strongly Recommended

  1. Download Gradebook
  2. Download Course Package

Advised

  1. Download Quizzes (Classic Quizzes) - *if you use Classic Quizzes
  2. Download New Quizzes - *if you use New Quizzes
  3. Download Assignment Submissions
  4. Download Discussion Responses/Replies
  5. Download Turnitin Student Similarity Reports
  6. Download Classic Quiz Student Quiz Answers
  7. Download New Quiz Student Quiz Answers

Other

  1. End-of-Term Course Access Guide
  2. Download the End-of-Course Procedures PDF Handout

Learn more about Grades to Banner!

  1. Best Practices for Online Testing and Test Creation
  2. Honorlock Faculty Tutorial
    • Students do not pay for this service.
  3. Honorlock Quick Start Guides
    1. Enabling Honorlock in Your Canvas Course
      • Please open the Honorlock Tutorial above to review Honorlock test settings and settings recommendations.
    2. How to Create a Practice Exam (PDF)
    3. How to Create a Third-Party Exam (PDF)
    4. How to View Honorlock Results (PDF)
    5. Connecting an Honorlock-Connected Quiz to Honorlock AFTER a Course Copy/Import
    6. Honorlock 24/7 Suport (for Faculty and Students) - Faculty and students should contact Honorlock 24/7 Support before contacting Online@JSU for assistance with Honorlock.
    7. Honorlock Knowledgebase Help Center
    8. Setting Up an Honorlock Practice Exam (Video)
    9. Enabling Honorlock in Canvas (Video)
  4. Honorlock - Analyzing Student Test/Exam Results
    1. Search & Destroy (Guide/Website from Honorlock) - Honorlock Search & Destroy utilizes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown function to request and remove any exam questions (from your exam) that may appear on any public website. (Faculty can submit one request per exam.)
    2. Reviewing Session Results: Best Practices (Guide/Website from Honorlock) -Honorlock provides Session Results that offer insights into what occurred during exam sessions. These results include video recordings and chat transcripts. Below are some best practices to follow to maximize results.  
    3. How to View a Summary Report
  5. Honorlock Resources for Students
    1. Honorlock Student Tutorial
    2. Tips for Trouble-shooting Issues with Honorlock
    3. HonorPrep - A Step-by-Step Guided Tour of Honorlock for Students
    4. Webcam Checkout - Webcams can be checked out from the Multimedia Lab on the 6th floor in the Houston Cole Library.

  1. Setting Up a Canvas Course to Use Microsoft Teams 
  2. Teams Video Tutorials from Microsoft
  3. Teams for Students - Text/Images
  4. Creating Breakout Rooms in Microsoft Teams
  5. Creating Announcements for Participants in Microsft Teams Breakout
  6. Note: If you delete your Microsoft Team, you have 30 days to recover the deleted Team. Once 30 days elapse, the Team is unrecoverable. 
    1. If you delete your Team and wish to restore it within 30 days after deletion, contact IT to request Team recovery.
  7. Webcam Checkout - Webcams can be checked out from the Multimedia Lab on the 6th floor in the Houston Cole Library.

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JaxBooks Program

For information about textbooks, please go to the JaxBooks Program page.  Since JaxBooks is effective starting with the Fall 2025 term, some of the information and procedures may be delayed until all components are completely updated between the Summer 2025 and Fall 2025 terms.  For example, the Canvas configuration will be updated in August after Summer 2025 ends.

Enable JaxBooks in a Canvas Course to Access eTexbooks

To allow students to access adopted digital course material associated with JaxBooks in a Canvas course, faculty must enable the JaxBooks link in their Canvas course navigation menu.  (Note:  Available in August 2025.  Information will be distributed to faculty upon feature availability.)

To enable JaxBooks in your Canvas course, complete the following steps:

  1. In the course navigation menu, click on Settings.
  2. Click on the Navigation tab.
  3. Locate the button/link called JaxBooks.
  4. Click on the ellipsis on the button, and select 'Enable.' 
  5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the 'Save' button.
  6. Click on the 'Home' link in the course navigation menu. You will see 'JaxBooks'.
  7. It is active.

  • Turnitin Faculty/Instructor Tutorial
    • Please read and review the tutorial thoroughly before you decide to use Turnitin.
  • Syllabus Language
    • Turnitin recommends that instructors who use Turnitin to check student work for plagiarism include the following statement on the course syllabus: 
    • "Students agree that by taking this course all required papers may be subject to submission of textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism.  All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com references database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Usage Policy posted on the Turnitin.com site."
  • Interpreting the Similarity Report (Website)
  • The Similarity Report Explained (Video)
  • Turnitin Support Center
  • Turnitin Status Page