Creating pages and modules, importing templates from the Canvas Commons, managing course files and media, and much more are covered here.
Ally is a tool that will rate the accessibility of the content in your course, offer guidance on how to improve, and allow students to download alternative formats. This article contains an Ally Quick Start for Instructors and more.
Canvas supports LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability), a standard that makes it possible to integrate third-party or vendor tools with your Canvas course or enhance the course with other Web applications and Internet resources.
Use the Calendar to create and view activities across all your courses. You can easily edit the due dates of existing assignments by drag and drop. You can also use the Scheduler to setup appointments. The iCal feed can also be copied into a personal calendar like Outlook or Google.
Learn how to import the course template from the Canvas Commons.
Canvas is a versatile learning management system that can be completely customized for your class and students. Start here for some ideas on how to design your course.
Course Files include any content uploaded to your course. You can upload one or multiple files, view all details about your files, preview files, publish and unpublish files, set usage rights, and restrict access to files.
The Course Home Page is the first view your students will see when they enter your course. For the Course Home Page, you can customize a page from your course Pages and have it displayed as the Course Home Page.
Modules organize course content by week, unit, or other organizational structure that suits a course. They create a path for students to follow. Each module can contain pages, files, discussions, assignments, quizzes, and other learning materials.
Panopto is a video hosting platform that integrates into Canvas. It allows you to easily share videos inside a course for student view and allows students to submit a video to an assignment.
Courses should be copied into a new, empty course shell when you want to use or repurpose previously created content including course settings, syllabus, assignments, modules, files, pages, discussions, quizzes, and question banks.
As an instructor, you can control which links appear in Course Navigation. Canvas includes a set of default Course Navigation links that are shown by default and cannot be renamed.
This article contains information on how to get started with Simple Syllabus, edit your syllabus, and connect it to your Canvas course.
You can view a course the same way that your students view your course through Student View.
Canvas Teacher allows teachers to facilitate their courses on the go, inside and outside the classroom. This app provides quick access to grading, communicating, and updating—three of teachers' most frequent course facilitation tasks through Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes.
Canvas supports an LTI integration with Microsoft OneDrive and allows instructors to use, create, share, and collaborate on Office 365 files within Canvas
Pages store content and educational resources that are part of a course or group and can include text, video, and links to files and other course or group content.