Canvas Student Guide
Canvas, by Instructure, is UHD's new Learning Management System. It will replace UHD Blackboard Learn(SaaS). We have gathered some resources below for instructors to get familiar with Canvas. If you ever have a question, please feel free to reach out to Canvas Support.
How to Access Canvas
Global Navigation
Course Basics
Course Activities
Third Party Tools
Introduction
- How do I accept an email invitation to join a Canvas course as a student?
- How do I sign up for a Canvas account with a join code or secret URL as a student?
- How can I use Canvas on my mobile device as a student?
Announcements
- How do I view Announcements as a student?
- How do I add an announcement in a group?
- How do I edit an announcement in a group?
- How do I delete an announcement in a group?
- How do I add an external RSS feed to an announcement as a student?
- How do I subscribe to the Announcements RSS feed as a student?
- How do I reply to an announcement as a student?
- How do I like a reply in a course announcement as a student?
- How do I view or reply to an announcement thread as a student?
- How do I mention a user in an announcement reply as a student?
Assignments
- How do I view Assignments as a student?
- How do I view the rubric for my assignment?
- How do I view the rubric for my external tool assignment?
- How do I submit an online assignment?
- How do I submit a text entry assignment?
- How do I enter a URL as an assignment submission?
- How do I submit a media file as an assignment submission?
- How do I submit an assignment on behalf of a group?
- How do I know if I have a peer review assignment to complete?
- How do I submit a peer review to an assignment?
- Where can I find my peers' feedback for peer reviewed assignments?
- How do I upload a file as an assignment submission in Canvas?
- How do I use my webcam to take a photo for an assignment submission in Canvas?
- How do I annotate a file as an assignment submission in Canvas?
- How do I upload a file from Google Drive as an assignment submission in Canvas?
- How do I submit a cloud assignment with Google Drive?
- How do I upload a file from Microsoft Office 365 as an assignment submission?
- How do I know when my assignment has been submitted?
- How do I manage confetti animations in Canvas?
- How do I know when my instructor has graded my assignment?
- How do I submit a cloud assignment with Microsoft Office 365?
- How do I view assignment comments from my instructor?
- How do I use DocViewer in Canvas assignments as a student?
- How do I view annotation feedback comments from my instructor directly in my assignment submission?
- How do I view rubric results for my assignment?
- How do I view my Roll Call Attendance report as a student?
- How do I download assignment submissions from all my courses?
Assignment Enhancements
- How do I view an assignment in a course using Assignment Enhancements as a student?
- How do I view the rubric for an assignment in a course using Assignment Enhancements?
- How do I submit an online assignment in a course using Assignment Enhancements?
- How do I submit an assignment on behalf of a group using Assignment Enhancements?
- How do I submit a text entry assignment in a course using Assignment Enhancements?
- How do I upload a file as an assignment submission for a course using Assignment Enhancements?
- How do I annotate a file as an assignment submission using Assignment Enhancements?
- How do I use my webcam to take a photo for an assignment submission using Assignment Enhancements?
- How do I submit a media file as an assignment submission for a course using Assignment Enhancements?
- How do I enter a URL as an assignment submission for a course using Assignment Enhancements?
- How do I submit a Google Drive file or URL as an assignment submission using Assignment Enhancements?
- How do I submit a Microsoft Office 365 file as an assignment submission using Assignment Enhancements?
- How do I know when my assignment has been submitted in a course using Assignment Enhancements?
- How do I view assignment feedback from my instructor using Assignment Enhancements?
Calendar
- How do I use the Calendar?
- How do I filter the Calendar view by course?
- How do I view the Calendar iCal feed to import and subscribe to an external calendar?
- How do I add an event to my personal calendar?
- How do I add a to-do item in the Calendar?
- How do I add a recurring event in a calendar?
- How do I view a group calendar?
- How do I view and manage Account Calendars?
- How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Outlook.com as a student?
- How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Google Calendar as a student?
- How do I sign up for an appointment in the Calendar?
Chat
Collaborations
- How do I view Collaborations as a student?
- How do I create a Google Docs collaboration as a student?
- How do I create a Google Drive collaboration as a student?
- How do I create a Microsoft Office 365 collaboration as a student?
- How do I delete a collaboration as a student?
Conferences
- How do I use Conferences in a course as a student?
- How do I create a conference in a student group?
- How do I edit or delete a conference in a student group?
- How do I record a conference in a student group?
- How do I start a conference in a student group?
- How do I join a conference in a course as a student?
- How do I use the Conferences interface as a participant?
Course Navigation
- How do I use the Course Home Page as a student?
- How do I use the Course Activity Stream as a student?
- How do I drop a self-enrolled Canvas course?
- How do I use the Syllabus as a student?
- How do I view Course Analytics in a course as a student?
- How do I use the Microsoft Immersive Reader in a course as a student?
Discussions
- How do I view Discussions as a student?
- How do I view the rubric for my graded discussion?
- How do I subscribe to a discussion podcast as a student?
- How do I know if I have a peer review discussion to complete?
- How do I submit a peer review to a discussion?
- Where can I find my peers' feedback for peer reviewed discussions?
- How do I create a course discussion as a student?
- How do I subscribe to a discussion as a student?
- How do I view and sort discussion replies as a student?
- How do I change discussion settings to manually mark discussion replies as read as a student?
- How do I mark discussion replies as read or unread as a student?
- How do I reply to a discussion as a student?
- How do I attach a file to a discussion reply as a student?
- How do I embed an image in a discussion reply as a student?
- How do I edit or delete discussion replies as a student?
- How do I like a reply in a course discussion as a student?
- How do I view a discussion thread as a student?
- How do I mention a user in a discussion reply as a student?
- How do I report a reply in a discussion?
ePortfolios
- How do I create a new ePortfolio?
- How do I use the ePortfolio Getting Started Wizard?
- How do I organize my ePortfolio?
- How do I create a new ePortfolio section?
- How do I organize my ePortfolio pages?
- How do I edit the default page in my ePortfolio section?
- How do I create a new page in my ePortfolio section?
- How do I preview a page in my ePortfolio?
- How do I add rich text content to my ePortfolio page?
- How do I add HTML/embedded content to my ePortfolio page?
- How do I retrieve assignments from previous courses in my ePortfolio as a student?
- How do I upload a file or image to my ePortfolio page?
- How do I enable comments in my ePortfolio?
- How do I download the contents of my ePortfolio?
- How can I share a private ePortfolio?
- How do I make my ePortfolio public?
- How do I delete my ePortfolio?
Files
- How do I use Files?
- How do I view course files?
- How do I view group files?
- How do I view my user files?
- How do I move and organize files?
- How do I rename a file or folder?
- How do I create a folder in Files?
- How do I upload a file in Files?
- How do I bulk upload files?
- How do I preview a file in Files?
- How do I upload ZIP files?
- How do I delete a file or folder in Files?
- How do I download a file or folder?
- What types of media files can I upload in Canvas?
- How do I view my Google Drive files in Canvas?
- How do I view my Microsoft Office 365 files in Canvas?
Global Navigation
- How do I log in to Canvas?
- How do I use the Canvas Welcome Tour?
- How do I use the Dashboard as a student?
- How do I view my courses in the Card View Dashboard?
- How do I use the To Do list for all my courses in the List View Dashboard as a student?
- How do I add a to-do item in the List View Dashboard as a student?
- How do I view global activity for all courses in the Recent Activity Dashboard?
- How do I view the Global Announcements page?
- How do I use the To Do list and sidebar in the Dashboard as a student?
- How do I view grades for all courses in the Card View Dashboard?
- How do I view all my Canvas courses?
- How do I customize my Courses list as a student?
- How do I view my recent page view history in Canvas?
- How do I get help with Canvas?
- How do I log out of Canvas?
Grades
- How do I view my grades in a current course?
- How do I view my Learning Mastery scores in the Grades page?
- How do I use the icons and colors in the Grades page?
- How do I approximate my assignment scores using the What-If Grades feature?
- How do I view my grades in a concluded course?
Inbox
- How do I use the Inbox?
- How do I find my unread messages in the Inbox?
- How do I filter conversations in the Inbox?
- How do I star a conversation in the Inbox?
- How do I send a message to a user in a course in the Inbox?
- How do I send a message to a user in a student group in the Inbox?
- How do I send a message to all course users in the Inbox?
- How do I attach a file to a message in the Inbox?
- How do I record or upload media to a message in the Inbox?
- How do I reply to a message in the Inbox?
- How do I privately reply to one individual in a group message in the Inbox?
- How do I reply to submission comments in the Inbox?
- How do I forward a message from a conversation in the Inbox?
- How do I add new people to an existing conversation in the Inbox?
- How do I delete a conversation in the Inbox?
- How do I delete a message from a conversation in the Inbox?
- How do I archive a conversation in the Inbox?
Modules
- How do I view Modules as a student?
- How do I mark a module item as done for a module requirement?
- How do I choose an assignment path in a module?
- How do I view course content offline as an HTML file as a student?
Pages
- How do I view Pages as a student?
- How do I create a new page in a group?
- How do I change a page name in a group?
- How do I edit a course page as a student?
- How do I edit a page in a group?
- How do I delete pages in a group?
- How do I upload a PDF to a page in a group?
- How do I link to other pages in a group?
- How do I embed media in a page in a group?
- How do I create a file link in a page in a group?
- How do I view the history of a page in a group?
People and Groups
- How do I use the People page in a course as a student?
- How do I view my course analytics as a student?
- How do I view all groups in a course as a student?
- How do I view my Canvas groups as a student?
- How do I use groups as a student?
- How do I join a group as a student?
- How do I leave a group as a student?
- How do I switch groups as a student?
- How do I create a group as a student?
- How do I upload a file to a group?
- How do I start a collaboration in a group?
- How do I create a discussion in a group?
- How do I close a discussion for comments in a group?
- How do I manage groups as a student group leader?
Profile and User Settings
- How do I edit my profile in my user account?
- How do I add a profile picture in my user account?
- How do I change the settings in my user account?
- How do I change the language preference in my user account?
- How do I select personal pronouns in my user account?
- How do I set a time zone in my user account?
- How do I change my login password?
- How do I add contact methods to receive Canvas notifications?
- How do I add an additional email address as a contact method in Canvas?
- How do I add Slack as a contact method in Canvas?
- How do I manage my Canvas notification settings?
- How do I manage notifications for a single course?
- How do I merge my user account with an account using the same email address?
- How do I change my default email address in my user account?
- How do I reset my password?
- How do I view course content offline as an ePub file?
- How do I generate a pairing code for an observer?
- How do I add a text (SMS) contact method in Canvas?
- How do I set up multi-factor authentication for my user account?
- How do I manage API access tokens?
- How do I view a QR code to log in to the Canvas mobile apps?
- What feature options can I enable in my user account?
- How do I manage feature options in my user account?
- How do I enable the high contrast user interface?
Quizzes
- How do I view Quizzes as a student?
- How do I view the rubric for a quiz?
- How do I take a quiz?
- How do I take a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I take a quiz where I can only view one question at a time?
- How do I take a quiz where I can only view one question at a time in New Quizzes?
- How do I answer each type of question in a quiz?
- How do I answer each type of question in New Quizzes?
- How do I resume a quiz that I already started taking?
- How do I submit a quiz?
- How do I view quiz results as a student?
- How do I view quiz comments from my instructor?
- How do I view my quiz results as a student in New Quizzes?
- How do I know if I can retake a quiz?
- How do I know if I can retake a quiz in New Quizzes?
- How do I submit a survey?
Rich Content Editor (RCE)
- How do I access the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I add and modify text in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I use the menubar in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I resize the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I insert a table using the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I use the HTML view in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I create hyperlinks to external URLs in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I create hyperlinks to user, group, or course files in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I create hyperlinks to course or group content in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I edit and remove hyperlinks in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I upload and embed an image in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I embed images from Canvas into the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I manage alt text and display options for images embedded in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I upload and embed a media file from my computer in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I record media using the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I embed media from an external source in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I embed media files from Canvas into the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I add captions to new or uploaded videos in the Rich Content Editor in Canvas?
- How do I view captions in a video in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I manage video options in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I upload a document in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I select content from an external app in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I use the math Equation Editor in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I embed a file from Google Drive into the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I create a hyperlink from Microsoft Office 365 in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I link to a YouTube video in the Rich Content Editor?
- How do I use the Accessibility Checker in the Rich Content Editor?