eLearning Tips, Tricks, and Helpful Documents

If you are an instructor at UMW, here you will find various documents to help with providing the highest quality eLearning experience for your students. If you are a student, you will find documents that will help make your life easier.

You can browse the list of topics, search for topics of interest, or begin by using the quicklinks for Faculty, Students, and Moodle below.

96 documents
Canvas Support
Integrating Teams and Canvas
This document will explain how to set up a Teams course based on your Canvas student list.
Canvas Support, Student Support
Recording Video in the Canvas Student App

This document explains how to record video submissions using the Canvas Student App.

All-Campus Support
Backgrounds for Green Screen Replacement

This link takes UMW users to a folder where they can find and download a variety of branded backgrounds for replacing the green screen in video recording.

Student Support
Finding Your Class Schedule in DAWGS

This document will explain how to locate your class schedule, as well as time/meeting location, in DAWGS.

Canvas Support, Faculty Support
Entering and Viewing Grades in Canvas

This document explains how to view and enter grades in Canvas. Quick links at the top of the document provide short cuts to specific information.

Canvas Support, Faculty Support
Setting Up a Canvas Gradebook

This document explains how to setting up a Canvas gradebook based on course grading policies.

Canvas Support, Faculty Support
Canvas Maintenance Checklist

This document provides a checklist of best practices to ensure that Canvas course sites work for everyone.

Canvas Support
Available Canvas Support

This document shows how faculty and students can directly access support from Canvas/Instructure.