Canvas: Get Started with Canvas
This self-help guide is a starting point for faculty and staff who need to develop a course in Canvas. It orients you to the tool, gives you important design information to consider, and points you to the resources you will need to build your course sites.
Understand Canvas
Find Your Way Around Canvas
Watch this faculty-centered introduction to Canvas distributed by Academic Technology Support Services (ATSS).
Add a profile picture, edit your bio, add contact methods, and more.
Learn About Canvas Components
Design For Student Success
Understand Tool Integration
This program is a series of courses that teach you how to create accessible slide decks, documents, and PDFS.
See “Use the Rich Content Editor” section in this self-help guide for more resources.
Make Design Decisions
This link goes to an open Canvas course on analytics that ATSS maintains.
This link goes to an open Canvas course on analytics that ATSS maintains.
Build Your Course
Create Your Course
Publish Course Content
Canvas has two levels of content, the course level and the content item level. Students will see nothing if you do not Publish the course. Individual content items also need to be Published before students can see those.
If you want to hide individual items from students, even while a course is Published and visible, you can leave the items Unpublished until you are ready for students to view them.