This guide is specifically tailored for GTAs who are new to Canvas. It provides essential tips and tricks on using Canvas efficiently for teaching, grading, student engagement, and more, ensuring you are well-prepared for your role. Within this guide, you will find the necessary information to help you become better acquainted with troubleshooting some issues you may encounter as you use Canvas weekly.

At the end of training guide, you will be able to:

• Describe your role as a GTA using Online@UT (Canvas).
• Develop assignments, discussions, quizzes, and question banks within Online@UT (Canvas).
• Explain how to use the Online@UT (Canvas) gradebook.
• Apply Canvas tips and tricks in your teaching.

A self-paced, asynchronous workshop for UTK students to learn about Canvas and get comfortable with its environment. The workshop provides essential training to students new to Canvas, students needing a Canvas refresher, or students wishing to stay updated with Canvas changes.

This resource will equip you with the tools and knowledge to pose response-driven questions in real-time during your course instruction. You can use PointSolutions to ask and receive responses in face-to-face or online classes. This response system also allows you to sync the responses to Canvas for class participation scores or quizzes.

Using this resource will help participants to:

• set up your Canvas course for using clickers (or mobile responses).
• create questions in PowerPoint using PointSolutions.
• create Anywhere Polling (including Ad Hoc questions or planned questions using a web interface).
• create self-paced quizzes (participants answer at their own pace) or scheduled quizzes.
• sync grades to Canvas.

If you are new to Canvas, this self-paced tutorial will get you quickly up and running by implementing the Preparing to Launch course template, available in Online@UT (Canvas), and you'll benefit from the detailed instructions found in this tutorial. If you are already an experienced Canvas user, this tutorial will help you dig a bit deeper into the capabilities of Canvas and Zoom and to refresh your skills.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to:

• Create an inviting course Homepage.
• Employ a course template designed by OIT to help structure your course site.
• Upload course content to include recorded lectures, PowerPoints, links to external web resources and other materials.
• Create assignments that are automatically linked to the gradebook and the course calendar and establish a standard method for students to submit assignments.
• Create online assessments using the Canvas quiz tool, in which quiz questions and distractors can be randomized to create unique student attempts.
• Deliver live lectures and conduct office hours online in Zoom.