1. Whole Group: Watch Video

2. Discuss

3. With Partners: Move through your Navigation and User Profiles (Set Up)

4. More: Tutorial

Getting Started in Canvas . . .

Browser

Although Canvas works in every Web browser, we recommend that you access Canvas through either Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.

Logging In

You log in to Canvas by accessing our production site at https://canvas.instructure.com/. The login will be set by you today.

Orientating

Once you've logged into Canvas, you will probably first notice the Communication Stream in the central column--this shows recent activity in all of your Canvas course web sites.

As an instructor, you should also notice the To Do list on the right. This links to any submitted work that you need to grade or attend to.

You can access a specific course from the Courses drop-down menu at the top.

Navigating a Course

Inside a course you'll find a similar layout: the central column is the Communication Stream (or custom home page if you've changed it) with a To Do list on the right. These are specific to the course you are in.

There is also a list of course tools on the left. Most teaching activities can be found through the To Do list, through the Communication Stream, or through a specific tool in the tools menu.

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Navigating a Course

Communication Preferences

The ability to set and configure Communication Preferences in Canvas is

one of the primary differentiators from other LMS products.

Students and Instructors will both want to login and customize their

communication preferences within Canvas. Here's how:

Setting Communication Preferences

Canvas allows users to receive course notifications through a variety of

internet services such as email, SMS/text, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Start by going to your profile by clicking on the Profile link next to

your name in the top right corner.

Inside the profile page, click on the Communication Preferences button

in the menu.

Now you can customize your notifications on a personal level. For each

notification group, the user is able to configure how frequently they'd

like to be notified: Right Away, Daily, Weekly, or Never.

Communication preferences can be set to notify via either SMS or email

in Canvas, or other mechanisms (like Facebook) inside the

applications themselves.

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