Canvas: Getting Started with Canvas

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First things first

Canvas: Getting Started with Canvas - First Things First

This quick overview will introduce you to these basics of Canvas: logging into Canvas, becoming familiar with the Canvas interface, and opening a Canvas course.

Creating & managing course content

Importing content from an existing Canvas course

If you already have content in a previous Canvas course, that content can be easily copied over into your new Canvas course shell.

Creating and managing Canvas course content

This material will be the most time-consuming portion of your learning curve in Canvas. This is where you actually "create" your course... give it body, share information, assign tasks to students, and assess their learning. Allow yourself time to explore and test these elements. Each element (listed below) links to a corresponding "start" page in Instructure's online Canvas Guides.

Publishing your course

How do I publish a course? Links to an external site.

Regardless of how much work you put into your course -- how many files you upload, how much effort you put into your quizzes, or how much thought you put into your wonderfully organized modules -- your students will never see your work unless and until you publish your course. Publishing your course is an overt act, wherein you are saying, "I am ready to share this content with it's students."

Note: Other objects within you course can be published (or unpublished). This, too, will control their visibility to the students. You can publish a page, but not publish a module that contains that page. You can publish a module, but not publish the course. For students to see any Canvas object, it must be published, the module it is in must also be published, and the course must be published.

Help

You have several resources at your disposal for getting further assistance. 

Additional Resources

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Technical Support & Consultation Requests
DoIT Help Desk • helpdesk.wisc.edu • help@doit.wisc.edu • (608) 264-4357

Additional Resources Online
Learn@UW Website with Guides & More Information • at.doit.wisc.edu/learn-uw
Learn@UW KnowledgeBase • kb.wisc.edu/luwmad