Instructors
First Steps
Ten steps to get your first course site launched
Managing Your Course
Manage communication and assignments after your course is published
Remote Teaching with Canvas
Beyond setting up and managing a Canvas course, what more is needed to hold your class completely online?
Workshops and Live Help
Contact us to schedule one-on-one help or a workshop tailored to your department, or find an upcoming or past workshop below. We’d love to give a Canvas overview at your department meeting if you tell us about particular Canvas features or functionalities you’d like to learn more about.
Past TEACH Symposium recordings from presenters around the campus
If you can't come to a workshop, here's a 54-minute overview and a printable guide to help with your first site.
Desktop and Mobile
We recommend using the Chrome browser. See this guide for more information about operating system, browser and device requirements.
Browse these real Canvas courses as a student (must have SUNet ID)
Self-help
Top articles for Stanford-specific questions about Canvas
Detailed guides from Canvas
Self-paced course on basic and advanced topics such as assignments, sections and groups, and third-party tools.
Course Design Guides
The Center for Teaching and Learning has guides at Teaching Commons for getting started. After you read the Foundations of Course Design, explore the guides below.
This page from the Inclusive Teaching Guide focuses on practices and technologies that foster a sense of community for everyone.
Ideas for activities and engaging your students if your course needs to go fully online
If your synchronous elements are in person and asynchronous elements are online, how can you leverage web and in-class technologies.