Canvas Survey Import Guide
Default Menu Placement
The 鈥淐ourse Evaluations鈥 menu item in Canvas provides students a complete list of all available Flash Surveys (aka the Student Survey of Instruction), regardless of which course they are viewing at the time when clicking on 鈥淐ourse Evaluations.鈥 Instructors can also find their own survey tasks in this same location when the tasks are available to be completed.
By default, every course in Canvas has the 鈥淐ourse Evaluations鈥 item located in the course menu. As long as 鈥淐ourse Evaluations鈥 is visible in the course menu, nothing is required of the faculty to provide the surveys to students and the students will also receive automated emails when their surveys open plus a pop-up window immediately upon logging into Canvas whenever there are open surveys.
Adding the Flash Survey Course Evaluations to Canvas
If 鈥淐ourse Evaluations鈥 is not visible in the course menu, follow these steps to add it.
- In the course in question, scroll the course menu to the very bottom to locate 鈥淪ettings鈥.
- After clicking on 鈥淪ettings鈥 from the very bottom of the course menu, the Course Details page will be displayed.
- Click on the 鈥淣avigation鈥 tab of the Course Details page.
- 鈥淐ourse Evaluations鈥 is not located in the top list of items but is shown in the 鈥淒rag items here to hide them from students.鈥 section of the page. Note that the actual position of 鈥淐ourse Evaluations鈥 may be further down the hidden list of items. To make 鈥淐ourse Evaluations鈥 visible to students, click and hold the mouse button on 鈥淐ourse Evaluations鈥, and then drag 鈥淐ourse Evaluations鈥 to wherever it should be displayed in the list of items at the top 鈥 the actual position does not matter as long as it is somewhere within the course navigation.
- After placing 鈥淐ourse Evaluations鈥 in the desired location, the menu changes must be saved by scrolling to the very bottom of the page to locate the 鈥淪ave鈥 button. Click 鈥淪ave鈥 to apply the changes to the course menu.
- After clicking 鈥淪ave鈥 as above, 鈥淐ourse Evaluations鈥 will appear in the course menu.
