Features at a Glance

Canvas includes a variety of built-in course construction and management tools that can be customized to create unique and accessible teaching and learning experiences.

Instructors may create and share course content using Assignments, Discussions, Modules, Quizzes, and Pages or foster collaborative learning experience using Groups. Depending on course settings, students can access these areas in Canvas to find learning materials and interact with other course users.

Canvas also allows instructors to create rubrics and can provide students with comprehensive feedback on assignment and quiz submissions using SpeedGrader and manage Grades. They can also communicate course news and updates with students using Announcements as well as the Calendar and Syllabus.

Instructors and admins can gain greater insight into student success and make informed instructional decisions using data provided in Canvas Analytics.

Canvas also includes the Canvas App Center, where instructors can enable a variety of External Apps (LTI Tools) and services. The ever-growing app library offers a wide array of interactive resources, content repositories, assessment tools, social media integrations, and other digital learning and teaching resources.

Learn more about all Canvas features or browse through the Canvas Instructor Guides to learn more about a specific one of interest.

*Also see Feature Comparison Guide - Blackboard to Canvas for side-by-side comparison with links to reference.

Getting Started with Canvas as an Instructor

Getting Started with Canvas in 10 Steps (Faculty)

Watch Video: Set up your Canvas course in 30 minutes or less

Feature Comparison Guide with Reference Links - Blackboard to Canvas

See Preparing Course Sites for detailed step-by-step directions on how to get started building Canvas courses, enroll in an Online Canvas Orientation for Faculty and/or explore a full listing of Instructor Guides.

Updating (Replacing) Files in Canvas

You can use the Canvas file replace feature to update files in the Canvas Files area. The advantage of replacing an existing file is that Canvas preserves any links to the file you replace. In other words, you can replace last semester's syllabus with this semester's syllabus in your course Files area, and all the links to your syllabus in your Canvas class will go to your updated syllabus.

Do the following to update files in your Canvas course without breaking links:

Go to Canvas course Files area, and download a file to your computer.
Make updates to the file you downloaded, and save it, making sure the name of the file you updated is the same as the file you downloaded.
Upload the updated file to the Files area in your Canvas course. Click the Replace button.

Feature Comparison Guide - Blackboard to Canvas.pdf

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