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Canvas Instructor Guide

This guide offers an overview of the Canvas learning management system (LMS). With over 600 articles answering questions related to using the interface well, this guide offers a comprehensive overview. Content ranges from course navigation to understanding the Teacher role, Classic versus New Quizzes, Assignments, Attendance, gradebook usage, course communication, and more. 

Have a question about Canvas? Ask the Canvas Campus Community

Specific usage questions can be researched in this active community. This useful platform connects Canvas LMS users, administrators, instructional designers, and educational professionals together in order to problem solve issues within the platform and share LMS specific tools.

How do I use the Canvas course setup tutorial as an instructor? (2 min. read)

The setup tutorial helps users understand the feature areas available in a Canvas course. Displaying a brief overview, and links to user guides that relate to that feature, the tutorial is useful when creating a new course or learning about an individual feature area.

Feature areas include: Announcements, Assignments, Collaborations, Conferences, Course Import, Discussions, Files, Grades, Home Page, Modules, New Analytics, Outcomes, Pages, People, Quizzes, Rubrics, Settings, Syllabus, and Zoom LTI integration page.

Course Evaluation Checklist v3

This course evaluation helps ensure that educators are designing courses which consider both curriculum and learning design principles. Checklist categories include course structure and content, formative and summative assessment, course accessibility for differently abled learners and more. It is a good tool for ensuring curriculum and design course modalities are of high quality.