 Hey folks, I just want to make a quick video to show folks how they could upload powerpoint slides into their canvas shells So that it might be easier to share them with your students Particularly if this is the first time that you're using canvas to share files with students during this during the strange time So let's go ahead and give a little preview. I'm currently in a empty shell That was created for me by my college The only thing that comes in our shell is that we tend to have kind of like a start here module That has some basic tools some instructors choose just to delete that other instructors will go out and publish that But we're not gonna worry too much about that today instead I'm just gonna show you the process of uploading files into the file section And then how you could create a page and link to those various to those various files So let's go ahead and dive into that the first place that you want to click once you're in your canvas shell Let's look for this file section And so it should show up over here on the left-hand side by default the files section is not visible to students Most instructors prefer it that way since they have a bunch of stuff in there instead prefer just to link directly to files That said at the end of this video I will show you how you can just upload stuff there and make the entire thing visible if that was something you're interested in doing So let's go ahead and go to files as the instructor Once you're in files, you'll see that it will bring up a section that looks like this If you have a completely blank shell, there may not be anything here at this point But if you're using a shell like my college does where there's some pre-populated content You might see some stuff here My suggestion is to try to organize things by folders like you would on your desktop And it just helps keep things a lot less Chaotic than if you have just a bunch of stuff in the root directory So I'm gonna start by creating a folder here and I'm just gonna call this folder class slides Click the little check button here when I'm done and then you can see that this folder has now been Been created I'm gonna go ahead and then click on that folder to go into it And this gives me a blank space where I'm able to upload some some files Now just to flash over to my desktop I have already downloaded all of the textbook supplied power points for my my class I use a public speaking textbook that is an OVR textbook But still has power points called the exploring public speaking project. They're currently on the fourth edition It's a really great book and I'll link to Their url in the description of this video if it's something that you want to check out But anyway, as you can see in this folder I've got all of the power points that they have supplied for for my class And they're kind of your typical textbook supplied Supplied power points that you might want to share as they've got some good information for students Obviously you can use any power points including the ones that you have designed personally for your for your course So those are sitting on my desktop So I'm going to go back to canvas now and what I want to do here is upload those files to To canvas. There's actually kind of two different ways that you can do this One you can click this upload button And then go ahead and navigate to the folder that you're wanting to share And then you can find which power point you want to put up. So let's say for example Should rename these beforehand But if I wanted to share Well, I'm just going to go ahead and share chapter six since that seems to be at the top I go ahead and click on it and I can click open And this is going to upload it into this to this folder the second way that you can Perhaps more easily upload a bulk of files is just to kind of put your windows side by side like this And then select all of the files that you want to copy over Now I'm just going to select the rest of them And I'm going to drag and drop them over Over on my slides. I'm going to have to wait for the little drop items to upload button to appear And then that will go ahead and do them all the only word of caution that I will give you is Like these power points are relatively small file types as you can see as they're uploading most of them sit here in this You know 190 to Even less than that range. And so really all of these together Looks to only be Yeah, yeah, like two megabytes. So pretty pretty small I do know on some of my custom power points where I've embedded high resolution images and videos They're far higher than that and you do tend to have a cap in your canvas shells. It tends to be about a Tends to be about 500 megabytes. Maybe less than in your institution So just be careful not to overwhelm your stuff. And if you are worried about having bigger files Using a cloud sharing platform to link to power points such as google drive or drop box Maybe a better solution for for you and your students Once you have all of those files uploaded now, you're able to share them with your students And again, as I mentioned, you could just open the file section and instruct students to go to that page But I think the better method here is instead to build out some pages for students where they can Link directly to them. So I'm going to show that process And I'm just going to put one page together and link to a couple files But obviously you could put together a page for each Module or chapter or even use the module tools and have them embedded in In there, but unless we'll do the kind of easy way because the process is basically the similar Regardless of where you use it So I'm going to go ahead and click I went to the pages tool and I clicked a new page And I'm going to create a page called class slides All right, so what I would probably want to do here now is just create a space to kind of link to individual files. And so let's say that I wanted to put up chapter two Chapter six And chapter 14 obviously you could do this for all of those and I guess it helps to Spell chapter correctly. All right So at this point like an easy way to link to files is just to select the text that you've typed Click over here on files and you can see up here at the top is that folder that I created called class slides And I would just want to kind of scroll down through here and find the correct file So here's my chapter two PowerPoint I click it and now that link is a link is live And let's see if I can find the chapter six You know a good pro tip is to rename your your files so that they're a little easier to To do I'll tell you what I'm going to cheat since I see chapter five right there. We're going to go ahead and put chapter five in and There's my chapter. Oops five in And I see my chapter 14 was somewhere in here. There it is All right, and again, you could do that for all of them But you get the idea I'm going to click save and publish And now and this is a very simple point a student click on one of one of these And it would download it onto their computer so that they're able to uh to see them Man, all right So that's probably the easiest method in uh in a nutshell If you did just want to like upload them and make the files available Which is probably okay. Really the only thing you have on canvas is some assignment guides and Perhaps some Some of these types of files you could go and just make your entire file section viewable by going into settings And then going down here and finding the files tool This is under the navigation Sub tab so you can see like sometimes it pops here first pretty good navigation drag files from down here to up here Click save And now when you publish course students will actually be able to go into the file section And they'll see something that kind of looks like uh like this and they would be able to hypothetically Find your class lines a folder and you could directly link to this folder If you wanted to do it that way and try to treat it a little bit like a cloud cloud storage database Well, that was a kind of like quick and dirty way of kind of exploring how to embed powerpoint slides Um, again, I know we are in strange times, but I hope this information is useful to you all And if you have questions feel free to go ahead and ask them down in the comments. All right folks Thanks for watching and good luck