The Dashboard is the first page you will see when you log into Canvas. It is where you will access all your Canvas courses. You can access the Dashboard at any time, by clicking the Dashboard icon on the Global Navigation Menu on the far left hand side of...
The Course Navigation Menu is a series of links on the left side of your Canvas course that help you and your students access the different areas of your site. These links are shown by default and cannot be renamed. Links with the crossed-out eye icon, are not visible to...
People displays information about users in a Canvas course. You’ll find a link to the People page in your Course Navigation Menu. The following tutorial video (3:52 min) shows you how to add and view users via People. View the transcript for this video tutorial. The People page displays all...
Pages is the Canvas content item you can use to add rich content to your Canvas course. With the help of the Rich Content Editor, you are able to embed images, files, videos, audio files and content from Youtube, Vimeo, Khan Academy and many other third party tools, in...
Files is where you can store documents, images or any other files in Canvas. There are three types and areas of Files: User files, for your personal files, available from your account profile. Course files, for subject files, located in each Canvas course you belong to Group files, for...
Use the Student View to view your subject site from the student’s perspective. You can also submit assignments and quizzes using Student View. You can use Student View to: Check that you’ve published all the content you want your students to have access to. Preview and test any task...
The Settings link in your Course Navigation Menu allows you to set different options for your Canvas course. This link is only available to instructors. For example, you can choose to: Edit details for your Canvas course, for example, the availability of your Canvas course to students Change the image for...
