Digest of Canvas Instructor Guides
A Compendium of Essential Canvas Tutorials
This listing is derived from the Canvas Instructor Guide, a vast collection of—currently over 600—helpful illustrated tutorials created and maintained by Instructure, Canvas’ parent company to help instructors accomplish tasks and teach the tools and features in Canvas.
The links below will lead you directly to their related topic sections within the Guide, presented as answers to user questions. Within each topic section are specific related tutorials. Using this list is easy; for example, to learn how to import content into Canvas, simply click on the link “Course Import Tool” below to find several tutorials related to that tool, including one about how to import content from TITANium (i.e., Moodle). Each of the tutorials has illustrated screenshots and step-by-step instructions regarding that topic.
Text Tutorials: Table of Contents
- Introduction to Canvas
- Analytics
- New Analytics
- Announcements
- Assignments
- Attendance
- Calendar
- Chat
- Collaborations
- Conferences
- Course Import Tool
- Course Navigation
- Courses and Sections
- Discussions
- ePortfolios
- External Apps (LTI Plugins)
- Files
- Global Navigation
- Grades
- Groups
- Inbox
- Modules
- Outcomes
- Pages
- People
- Profile and User Settings
- Quizzes
- New Quizzes
- Rich Content Editor
- New Rich Content Editor
- Rubrics
- Settings
- SpeedGrader
- Web Services
Video Feature Overviews: Table of Contents
In addition to the text tutorials above, we have listed direct links to nearly 30 videos about some of Canvas’ key features. To watch a feature overview video, simply click on the relevant link and your browser will open the page for that video:
- Announcements Overview (Instructors)
- Assignments Overview (Instructors)
- Calendar Overview (Instructors)
- Canvas Teacher App
- Canvas Overview (Instructors)
- Chat Overview (Instructors)
- Collaborations Overview (Instructors)
- Commons Overview (Instructors)
- Conferences Overview (Instructors)
- Courses: Creation & Management (Instructors)
- Course and Student Analytics Overview (Instructors)
- Course Home Page Customization (Instructors)
- Course Settings (Instructors)
- Cross-Listing Overview
- Discussions Overview (Instructors)
- Files Overview (Instructors)
- Gradebook Overview (Instructors)
- Groups Overview (Instructors)
- Mastery Paths (Instructors)
- Modules Overview (Instructors)
- New Analytics Overview (Instructors)
- Outcomes Overview (Instructors)
- Pages Overview (Instructors)
- People Overview (Instructors)
- Quizzes Overview (Instructors)
- New Quizzes Overview (Instructors)
- Rubrics Overview (Instructors)
- SpeedGrader Overview (Instructors)
Many of the listed videos and tutorials can also be found by clicking on the “Search the Canvas Guides” link of the Help (“?”) panel available in the Global Navigation menu within your Canvas Dashboard.