More Canvas Resources

Canvas is a powerful learning management system (LMS) that can be used to fully manage your course, large or small. You can use it to provide course content (lecture notes, videos, readings, and other resources), distribute, collect, and grade assignments, manage grades, and interact with students.

The following resources are provided to help you get started in Canvas:

For Faculty:

• Setting up and designing your Canvas course - Learn how to create pages, modules, quizzes, and assignments, customize navigation, grade student work, calculate and display grades, and review and publish your course.
• Recommendations and best practices - Learn about how and why to use Canvas to meet the needs of ALL learners in your course.
• Communicating with students - Everything you need to know about notifications, announcements, discussion boards, chat, and Canvas email.
• Importing course content - Want to use content from a previous course? Follow these steps!
• Sharing your course content with other instructors - This page outlines how to share your course content with another instructor, while still following student-privacy laws.
• Viewing past student scores and submissions - Need to access student grades and submissions from an older Canvas course, but can't find them? Your information has NOT been deleted, simply archived.
• Tools integrated into Canvas (LTIs) - Learn about other technology tools (Gradescope, Perusall, SensusAcess, etc.) and how they integrate with Canvas.
• General information about Canvas - This page covers information about the timeline for course availability, storage amounts, mobile applications, Canvas navigation, roles, and Studio, and sandbox.

For Students and Auditors:

• Finding / joining your Canvas courses: Sign in to Canvas to view courses you are enrolled in (and are published).
• Submitting assignments in Canvas
• Communication and notification settings
• Setting up a calendar feed
• Customizing your settings (profile, landing page, mobile access)

Please also visit our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page