Suggested Canvas Guides

Canvas Guides provide directions for everything you might want to do in Canvas. Below is our recommended “best of” list of Canvas Guides.  We recommend you review what’s here and remember this page if you run into problems later.

If you need additional help, reach out to Canvas Support via live chat, email, or phone by clicking the Help button on your navigation bar in Canvas:

Getting Started

A great first step is to watch the Getting Started with Canvas as a Student video series by Canvas. This series of video tutorials covers the following topics:

  • Canvas Overview
  • Notification Settings
  • Canvas Student App
  • Dashboard Overview
  • Assignments Overview
  • Assignment Submissions

Profile and User Settings 

Your next step should be updating your Canvas profile.

Note: You cannot change your login information. Your login info for Canvas will always be your campus email and password. 

Modules

Announcements 

Assignments 

Calendar 

Canvas Inbox

Discussions 

Grades and Feedback 

Mobile Technology 

Quizzes 

General Tips

When your browser is zoomed in or you’re using a small window, items in the sidebar may go to the end of the page instead of the right side.

For example, this is the Dashboard To-Do list at the right side of the page:

And this is the Dashboard To-Do list at the end of the page:

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