Finish Faster: Quick Keyboard Shortcuts & Other Time-Saving Canvas Tricks

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Course development is a lengthy process. Speed-up the process by using these shortcuts and tips!

 

No problem. Here are two scenarios that may happen to you in Canvas. 

 

Use View Page History.

View Page History Links to an external site. allows you to see and revert to previous versions of the page. This tip is particularly helpful for when you begin to bedazzle your pages with HTML, and it doesn't look the way you intended. This Canvas feature is a time-saving "Undo" button.

 

That's scary.

No worries. Call Canvas Support as soon as you can. Canvas can retrieve up to the last 50 items deleted in your course. 

 

 

Need to highlight a word or a paragraph in a jiffy? Use these quick shortcuts. 

To do this	Use Mouse
Highlight word	2 Mouse Clicks
Highlight whole paragraph	3 Mouse Clicks

 

No need to highlight the whole sentence. Simply place the mouse cursor on the line that has the phrase or word, then apply the appropriate heading. 

 

Keyboard shortcuts are keys or combinations of keys that provide an alternative way to do something that you’d typically do with a mouse.

To do this	Press this key (Windows)	Press this key (MAC)
Hyperlink to an External Site**	Ctrl + K	Command + K
Cut the selected item	Ctrl + X	Command + X
Copy the selected item	Ctrl + C	Command + C
Paste the selected item	Ctrl + V	Command + V
Paste without formatting	Ctrl+Shift+V	Command + Shift + V
Undo an action	Ctrl + Z	Command + Z
Redo an action	Ctrl + Y	Command + Y

 

**Highly recommended to use the Content Selector Links to an external site. to hyperlink within the course to other pages. Doing so minimizes the amount of broken links when the course is copied.