Welcome to Canvas at Louisiana Tech University! This website provides information to help you get the most out of your Canvas experience. If you have questions, concerns/problems, please do not hesitate to contact the Canvas Administrator at CIT@LATech.edu. This service is provided for use by all faculty and instructors at Louisiana Tech University and extension units.
What is “Canvas”?
Canvas LMS is an open and reliable web-based software that allows institutions to manage digital learning, educators to create and present online learning materials and assess student learning, and students to engage in courses and receive feedback about skill development and learning achievement.
How is Canvas used at Louisiana Tech University?
Canvas is the Web-based learning management system used at Louisiana Tech University to enhance class communication, organization and presentation by providing customizable website templates for courses offered. It is designed to provide tools for building online resources to support face-to-face classes or to facilitate classes offered completely online. Faculty can use Canvas with minimal formal instruction or technical skills. Faculty are required to post an electronic version of their syllabus on Canvas (Policy 2205). Beyond that, the degree to which the system is used in a course is determined by the instructor.
The Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) administers Canvas at Louisiana Tech, with technical support from the Computing Center.
Canvas course sites enable faculty to:
Sort materials and information into modules for students to better understand course content
Share a course syllabus, assignment, discussion and page
Assign quizzes and Exams
Use the Course Import Tool to bulk-upload pre-existing LMS course packages and/or course materials
Provide students with comprehensive feedback on assignment and quiz submissions using SpeedGrader and manage grade reporting in the Canvas Gradebook.
Facilitate real-time course interactions using Chat and communicate course news and updates with students using Announcements as well as the Calendar and Syllabus.
Getting Started
The Center for Instructional Technology maintains guides to help faculty and students get started with Canvas.
The Canvas Activity Log will show what a student is doing within each minute of the quiz or exam. For example, if during the fifth minute of the exam a student answers numerous questions, the Canvas Activity log would pick up that information and label it all under the fifth minute of the exam.
The system won't automatically notice a split screen unless the student actively clicks away from the active Canvas test page. It's important to know that Canvas becomes more capable in detecting and even restricting split screens during proctored tests when tools like Respondus Monitor and Proctorio are used.
Proctored tests: In proctored exams, Blackboard or Canvas can detect the switching of tabs through the use of a proctoring software known as Respondus monitor. Switching tabs might result in the software flagging the user and redirecting them back to the test page.
Canvas tracks the time spent by the student on each question. Teachers can analyze keystrokes and mouse clicks if the test results seem suspicious. Plagiarism detector and answers comparing software recognize copying from other sources or groupmates.
In reality: Canvas does not identify direct copy-paste actions. It means that if you copy a question or a piece of content and paste it into Canvas, the system itself doesn't flag this action. However, the content pasted can still be checked for plagiarism by tools like Unicheck.
The information the student sees after completing a Canvas quiz/exam is determined by the settings that start with Let Students See Their Quiz Responses.
To View Survey Results • Click Quizzes in the Course Navigation pane. Click the survey title. To view individual submissions, click the settings icon and select Show Student Survey Results; select a student from the list to see the individual responses.
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