You can view a course the same way that your students view your course through Student View. Through student view, you can test navigating through modules, submit assignments, take quizzes, and more. Any progress made in student view will be saved under the Test Student and will remain there until you reset.

Note: While student view works well with most tools, it is not reliable for viewing LTIs and using Groups. It’s also recommended that you do not interact with any students while in Student View (such as in a discussion) as those posts will be visible to students.

Canvas Guide: Student View Canvas Guide
Illinois State University Help Article: Student Canvas Training Modules

In Canvas, notifications are entirely controlled by the user. You can adjust what you would like to get notifications about through Settings. Notifications about announcements, inbox messages, and more are all set as defaults for all users.

Canvas Guide: Adjusting Notifications
Illinois State University Help Article: Manage Your Canvas Notifications

Instructors and students are added to official course sites automatically through Campus Solutions. Other sites require manual participant management. You may have already added user enrollments to your course in the Course Setup Checklist. However, you can invite users to join your course anytime if the Add People button is available on the People page.

Canvas Guide: How do I use the Course Setup Checklist?
Illinois State University Help Article: Canvas Roles

When adding a participant (user) to your Canvas course, you will be asked to assign that user a role. There are several roles available in Illinois State's instance of Canvas, and each role has different permissions.

Illinois State University Help Article: Canvas Roles Permissions

The Course Home Page is the first view your students will see when they enter your course. For the Course Home Page, you can customize a page from your course Pages and display it as the Course Home Page. 

Note: You will need to set a custom home page whenever you transfer course content from an old course into a new one, even if the custom page was already set up in the old course. 

Canvas Guide: How do I set a Front Page in a Course?

You can change your Course Home Page to reflect one of five layout options: the Recent Activity Dashboard, Pages Front Page, the Course Modules, the Assignment List, or the Syllabus.

Canvas Guide: How do I change the Course Homepage?

You can import content from another Canvas course in which you are enrolled as a Teacher. You can either import the entire course (all content) or select the specific content you wish to import.

Canvas Guide: How do I Copy Content from another Canvas Course?
Illinois State University Help Article: Copying Content from Another Canvas Course

As an instructor, you can control which links appear in Course Navigation. Canvas includes a set of default Course Navigation links; other links may be available and customizable

Canvas Guide: How do I mange Course Navigations Links?
Illinois State University Help Article: Manage the Course Navigation Menu in Canvas

The Dashboard is the first thing you will see when you log into Canvas. It helps you see what is happening in up to 20 of your current and favorite courses. You can adjust your Dashboard by adding nicknames for your courses, customizing the course colors, and favoriting your courses.

Canvas Guide: How do I use the Dashboard as an instructor?
Illinois State University Help Article: Dashboard Configuration in Canvas

To access courses that are not on your Dashboard, you can use the Courses tab > All Courses in your Global Navigation. Here, you can star/unstar courses to add/remove them from your Dashboard and view past enrollments and unfavorited courses.

Note: Once the semester has ended and a course has concluded, it will no longer be on your Dashboard, and you will be unable to favorite the course. However, you can still access it through All Courses in the Courses tab.

Canvas Guide: How do I view all my Canvas courses?
Illinois State University Help Article: Accessing Courses In Canvas

Profile and User Settings let you control your personal information in Canvas. Watch video

Canvas Guide: What are Profile and User Settings?
Illinois State University Help Article: 

• Account settings in Canvas
• Update Your Contact Methods in Canvas

If you have permission, you can publish your course from the Dashboard, the Course Home Page sidebar, the Course Settings sidebar, or the Course Setup Checklist.

Note: Once published, your course will be visible to students as early as 30 days before the start of the semester.

Canvas Guide: How do I publish a course?

Here are articles on creating Accessible Course Content in Canvas: 

• Creating Accessible Course Content with Canvas LMS
• Accessible Course Content Checklist
• ReadSpeaker
• Setting Up Multiple Assignment Submissions in Canvas

There are plenty of Learning Tool Integrations (LTI) that can help you with your Canvas Course. Here are some articles on LTIs

• Learning Tool Integration (LTI) in Canvas
• Requesting a Learning Tool Integration (LTI) in Canvas
• ReadSpeaker
• Where to Find McGraw Hill Connect LTI in Canvas
• Wiley Efficient Learning

Proctortrack is available in canvas for proctored quizzes and exams. Here are some articles to help with Proctortrack:

• Creating an Exam with Proctortrack in Canvas
• Reviewing Exam Results Through Proctortrack in Canvas