911³Ō¹Ļ

Canvas Survey Import Guide

Default Menu Placement

The ā€œCourse Evaluationsā€ 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 ā€œCourse Evaluations.ā€ 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 ā€œCourse Evaluationsā€ item located in the course menu. As long as ā€œCourse Evaluationsā€ 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 ā€œCourse Evaluationsā€ is not visible in the course menu, follow these steps to add it.

  1. In the course in question, scroll the course menu to the very bottom to locate ā€œSettingsā€.
  2. After clicking on ā€œSettingsā€ from the very bottom of the course menu, the Course Details page will be displayed.
  3. Click on the ā€œNavigationā€ tab of the Course Details page.
  4. ā€œCourse Evaluationsā€ is not located in the top list of items but is shown in the ā€œDrag items here to hide them from students.ā€ section of the page. Note that the actual position of ā€œCourse Evaluationsā€ may be further down the hidden list of items. To make ā€œCourse Evaluationsā€ visible to students, click and hold the mouse button on ā€œCourse Evaluationsā€, and then drag ā€œCourse Evaluationsā€ to wherever it should be displayed in the list of items at the top – the actual position does not matter as long as it is somewhere within the course navigation.
  5. After placing ā€œCourse Evaluationsā€ in the desired location, the menu changes must be saved by scrolling to the very bottom of the page to locate the ā€œSaveā€ button. Click ā€œSaveā€ to apply the changes to the course menu. 
  6. After clicking ā€œSaveā€ as above, ā€œCourse Evaluationsā€ will appear in the course menu.