Welcome to Canvas
Welcome to Canvas! The WashU introduction to using Canvas.
Canvas is a robust LMS (learning management system), offering many options to aid teaching and learning. Courses may be as simple or as complex as the course instructor or designer can imagine. While this course covers the fundamentals you'll need to start building your course today, it is not intended to be fully comprehensive, but rather provides a "jump start" to building and managing courses. When you've finished this course, dig deeper using the training resources available.
In this course, you'll learn how to:
- Maneuver through the system
- Build basic course components
- Add content, whether from scratch or through upload or import
- Grade course submissions
The course is divided into the following modules. In a module, you'll find a combination of short descriptions, brief videos, and links to step-by-step articles and instructions.
Click a module to get started. You may complete the modules in any order.