Canvas for Faculty
Canvas is our Learning Management System, which faculty use to facilitate both on campus and online instruction and communication with students. Explore our resources below to learn how to effectively use Canvas and related tools for teaching.
Getting Started with Canvas
- First time log in instructions
- Training
- Resources
- Online Course Development Program
- Course Template for Asynchronous Online Course
- Course Template for HyFlex Course
- Quest for Online Success (student readiness)
- Non-Instructional Uses
- Faculty Notes & Tips
- Merging Sections in Canvas
- Canvas Teacher App
- New Quizzes
- Canvas Discussions
Tools for Teaching
Canvas has many integrated instructional technologies to help further facilitate your interactions with students. Learn about our most popular tools:
- Hypothesis (a social, digital annotation tool)
- Open Educational Resources (free educational resources)
- Pronto (an instant messaging and collaboration tool)
- Proctorio (a secure, online exam proctoring tool)
- Studio (an interactive video recording tool)
- Instructional Uses Of Video In Online Courses
- TechConnect Zoom (a video-conference tool)
- Textbook Publisher Content
- Turnitin (an AI and plagiarism detection tool)
- Other Canvas Apps to use with Students