Wiki Page, GOTT Clover II: Canvas Free For Teachers Account: Registration and Login

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Canvas Free for Teachers: Overview

The first step you will take to develop and share your OER on Canvas Commons is to register for a Canvas Free for Teachers account. Canvas offers Free for Teacher accounts where you will create (and host) your own online courses. Free for Teacher accounts are always free, but they do not contain all features available to institutional users of Canvas. For example, no client support beyond access to the Canvas Guides is offered to you as a Free for Teachers user. Learn more in the Canvas Account Comparison PDF (Links to an external site.).

How to Create Your Own Canvas Free for Teacher Account

Begin the registration process by accessing the https://canvas.instructure.com website, as shown in the figure below:

Then, click the Need a Canvas Account? Click Here, It's Free! banner, as shown in the figure below:

On the next screen, click the I'm a Teacher button, as shown in the figure below:

You will then complete a brief registration form with the following fields, as shown in the figure below. To help Canvas identify the registrations of people enrolled in this course, please complete the first three fields as described in red below:

1. For the Organization Type, Canvas requests that those in this course select "Higher Ed".

2. Select your title as "Student" to signify you a student enrolled in this class.

3. For the School/Organization field, please type "Activity for a Canvas Network Course". This will identify you as a member of this course within Canvas.

4. Enter your first name.

5. Enter your last name.

6. Enter your phone number.

7. Enter your preferred email address.

8. Select your location.

9. Agree to the terms of use by clicking the You agree to the terms of use checkbox.

10. Click the Submit button.

To finish registering for Canvas, log into your email account that you entered in the registration form [field 7 above]. Locate the registration email and click the Click here to finish the registration process link, as shown in the figure below:

You will then be prompted to complete one last step in the registration process (see figure below). Here you will create a password [1] and enter your time zone [2]. If you want to receive more information from Instructure (i.e. Canvas), click the I want to receive... checkbox [3]. Click the terms of use checkbox [4]. Then click the Register button [5].

Canvas Free for Teachers: Login

After you have completed the registration process for your Canvas Free for Teachers account, you will access your Canvas dashboard at the https://canvas.instructure.com website where you will be prompted for your login information, as shown in the figure below.