Additional Instructor Navbar Options

In addition to the options on the navbar detailed in theUser Guide, an instructor has access to a few more features.

The view of the navbar from an instructor's account.

Instructor Activity View

Clicking the Activities button as an instructor will allow you to create and editactivities the same way that you do on the main HiTA application.The details for that can be found by following this link.

Import from Canvas

Clicking the Import from Canvas button will allow you to import materials from your Canvas course into HiTA. On this page, click on the button next toResources to begin import.

The Canvas import resource dialogue for HiTA.

A list of files, assignments, and pages will be shown with their availability status on Canvas. You can select the resources you want to import in each of the pages and set the availability of the resources in HiTA.

The Canvas import resource dialogue for HiTA.

Note that you cannot import resources that are unpublished on Canvas. However, you can import resources that are not yet available with the same unlock date as on Canvas.

Auto-Update

Once you have imported something, you can toggle the auto-update option which will periodically synchronize all published materials in your course, including ones that you did not manually import. Use this option if you do not want to periodically sync the materials manually and want HiTA to see everything published in your course without further action from your end.

Basic Settings

Clicking this button will send you to an interface where you canedit the basic metadata and settings of the course.

Instructor Guide

This button links to this documentation site.

Swap Views

Allows you to switch between the student and instructor views of the embedded HiTA instance. You will see what the student sees.