Canvas – Share

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Share learning material with your students on Canvas, UBC’s primary learning management system.

Canvas is a space for online learning and hybrid (part face-to-face, part online) courses. For face-to-face lectures, it can be used as a storage space for all your lecture materials to have them all in one place. To learn more about Canvas, visit the UBC faculty website.

What is this tool for? | How do I get started? | Example Use Cases | Additional Resources | Similar Tools | Support Available


What is this tool for?

In Canvas, instructors can; share lecture materials, facilitate online discussions, create quizzes, keep track of students’ assignments and grades. Canvas offers numerous tools and features that can save time and enhance teaching and learning at UBC—including SpeedGrader, Chat, and the Canvas Commons.

Highlights

  • Download (Android, iOS) the Canvas Mobile app to manage your course on the go.
  • You can include multimedia content in your Canvas course with integrated tools such as Kaltura. This makes the course more interactive and engaging for students.
  • You can share your existing syllabus in the Syllabus tab, using the auto in-line preview function so students won’t have to download it.

How do I get started?

Instructors and students can log into Canvas at canvas.ubc.ca with a Campus-Wide Login. To ensure you are ready for the upcoming term, check out our Start of Term Checklist.

Credit course shells are automatically created by UBC Student Information Centre (SIS) for each term. Once you are added as an instructor to your Canvas course shell, you can find the shell on your Dashboard.
If you are interested in having a non-credit shell created for any purpose in Canvas please contact ETS at ets.educ@ubc.ca. These shells are often used as instructor sandboxes (an open, private shell to experiment with Canvas), course development shells, cohort shells, communication shells, and more.

ETS provides templates for Faculty of Education course shells. This will give you a guide of how to navigate Canvas and what to add where as a starting point. Email us for support at ets.educ@ubc.ca.

There are different types of content you can add to your Canvas course. A good starting point would be to add your Syllabus, you can also add an existing Syllabus from your computer. Then, you start adding your lecture material as Pages, Files in Modules.

You can check the students added in your course by navigating to the People tab on the left hand side. Students are enrolled automatically by SIS each term. Your course won’t be visible to students until you Publish it.

Example Use Cases

Explore example online courses.

Additional Resources

Have a question about Canvas? Check our Learning Technologies FAQ page!

Similar Tools

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Support Available

Support for this tool is provided by Educational Technology Support.