You will be asked to sign into your Google account the first time you access Google Drive in Canvas. Users can still access their Google Drive files outside of Canvas.Īccess Google Drive from the course navigation if enabled. Thanks to everyone for your contributions that make this a better resource.All users can easily access their Google Drive files directly in Canvas as well as leverage the usability of Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides. The terms and links used in this document are believed to be accurate as of Apof course, because of the dynamic nature of Canvas, terms can and will change, and I am counting upon the sharp eyes of my fellow community members to point out any anomalies as they transpire. Thanks to Deactivated user, Matt Nagel,, and sraleigh, among others, for their generous contributions to the body of knowledge from which I derived the resources for this blog. I'm including links to the Google Docs editors Help Center and the Publish a document, spreadsheet, presentation, or drawing section of that help center for ready reference.
#HOW TO USE GOOGLE DOCS IN CANVAS CODE#
You can send the form to your students as a link, or incorporate it into a module as a URL, or harvest the embed code and embed it in a page-whichever presentation modality works best with your course delivery. The first question in the form had them select their names from a drop-down I populated in the form the second question gave them a list of time slots from which to choose. I recently created a simple, two-question form that polled my course participants on their office hour preferences. Use Google Forms to generate a survey.
#HOW TO USE GOOGLE DOCS IN CANVAS UPDATE#
Paste its code into a content page and as students update the Doc, the page will update. Post a collaborative document in Canvas-for example, a class-built glossary on a shared Google Doc.Create your syllabus as a Google Doc, paste its published HTML code into the Edit Syllabus Description HTML Editor view of the Rich Content Editor, and then if you ever make adjustments to that syllabus in Google Docs (changing dates, adding or subtracting readings, adjusting your grading scale) these changes will automatically update within Canvas.The Canvas Guide walks through the steps here: How do I embed a dynamic Google document into the Rich Content Editor? If the same spreadsheet is embedded into a Canvas Page or Assignment using the HTML Editor view of the Rich Content Editor, even if the sheet is shared so that "anyone with link" can edit, students will only be able to view-not edit-the data. This brings up the Google sheet inside of Canvas, in a frame as part of the module progression. Create an editable spreadsheet with the setting, "anyone with link" can edit, then add the share link of the Google sheet to a module as a URL item.The department chair assumes ongoing responsibility for notifying his faculty members if and when he makes changes to the master content. We created courses that embedded dozens of Google Docs in Canvas Pages, Assignments, and Modules. Only the department chair has privileges for the content in Google Drive. We decided to use Google Docs to create the content that would be delivered in Canvas. He wanted to ensure that the course content across all of those sections was tightly controlled. Course content: A few years ago I was working with a department chair to co-design two courses that would be taught in over a hundred online, hybrid/blended, and face-to-face sections.If you want to embed the link in a page or an assignment, use the following code in the HTML Editor: Paste the share link in and you'll have an editable Google Doc as long as the permissions you've set on the doc allow for it. All a user needs to do is to obtain the share link (accessed by clicking in the upper right hand corner of the Google Doc view) to add an External URL to a Module. Some users find that the easiest way to embed a Google Doc is to ignore the embed link from Google entirely.
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