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Is your Canvas dashboard looking a bit cluttered with previous courses or already completed compliance training? You can easily remove courses from the dashboard for easier viewing and access current courses while keeping the old courses. Learn about dashboard customization at http://bit.ly/2qUS5us

Canvas recently updated the course home pages to include announcements. If your course landing page is Modules or a Frontpage, you can now change the course settings and add recent announcements to the top of the page for easy student access. Learn how to add announcements at http://bit.ly/2iV6F1I

Turnitin is an academic plagiarism detector available to instructors and students in Canvas. Turnitin measures the student’s assignment originality and indicates what percent of their assignment matches other sources. Learn how to create a Turnitin assignment at https://tinyurl.com/h8cr6er and how to view your student’s submissions at https://tinyurl.com/hlg6akl

Did you know that by default, Canvas allows your students to see where they fall on all course assignments and compare their score with other students scores in the course? You can disable this feature if you have a small class or you do not want your students to see the grade distribution. Learn more at http://tinyurl.com/j3cze7e

Columns in the Grade book can only be created using the assignment tool, but there may be times you want to add a column for course participation or for items that do not have submission criteria attached. Learn more about how to create a participation or paper turn in by hand column for your grade book at http://tinyurl.com/hacpxnx

In Canvas, you can weight the final course grade based on assignment groups. An Assignment Group is a tool on Canvas that collects a group of similar assignments such as homework, quizzes, essays, etc. You can weight the assignment groups by their percentage of the overall grade. Learn more at http://bit.ly/2oqt5FW