Canvas, Cengage, Brainfuse Instructor Resources

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Overview

Audience: NGU faculty

Description: This article has video resources on using Cengage products with Canvas, how to use Canvas, and student registration instructions for Cengage products and Canvas.

Environment: Canvas, Cengage, Brainfuse Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)

Resources

Getting started with Canvas

All self-training instructor resources for Cengage products

  1. Select this link.
  2. Select your platform (example: MindTap, WebAssign, eBook, WELV2.
  3. Select Canvas.

MindTap self-training instructor resources

  1. Select this link.
  2. Instructors: MindTap Canvas video tutorials:
    1. How to link an existing MTap course to Canvas
    2. How to create a MindTap course to Canvas
    3. How to create a MindTap course in Canvas LTI Advantage (alternate Canvas set up)
  3. Students: Student registration video for WebAssign and Canvas

CNOWv2 training resources

  1. Visit this link.
  2. Instructors: CNOWv2 Canvas video tutorials
    1. How to create a CNOW course in Canvas
    2. How to deeplink CNOW assignments to the Canvas gradebook
  3. Students: Registration video for CNOWv2 and Canvas

Canvas/Cengage eBook integration

Integrating Cengage ebooks in Canvas

  • Note: If you are using a bookstore Equitable Access eBook, you will not link this Cengage version of the eBook.  This version of the eBook is for Cengage Unlimited users and for students who wish to purchase direct from Cengage. SEE YOUR BOOKSTORE FOR VITALSOURCE OR EQUITABLE ACCESS EBOOK INFORMATION.

Cengage instructor video tutorials

  1. Cengage instructor account login
    • Note: Access textbook instructor guides, powerpoints, test banks, test builders, ebook, solution guides, and educator guides for the textbook itself.  You can also create MindTap, CNOW, SAM, and WebAssign courses outside of Canvas.
  2. How to upload Cengage stand-alone test banks to Canvas
    • Note: Canvas will accept QTI and Blackboard Testfiles. Test files are available under the book title’s resources in your Cengage Instructor Account.
  3. How to use your Cengage instructor account

Brainfuse resources

Cengage/Canvas tips

  • To remove a Cengage Homework item from the Canvas Gradebook and Modules, delete the link to the assignment from the ASSIGNMENT tab on the left hand side of the Canvas course menu.
  • The most common mistake in Canvas is publishing an assignment but forgetting to publish the Module the assignment sits in. To avoid issue, we recommend looking at your course from the STUDENT VIEW to make sure all of your links are published and visible to students before class starts.
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