Canvas for Instructors & TAs

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Overview
  • Setting up your Profile in Canvas
  • Helpful Links to Get Started
  • Help

Overview

Canvas is the learning management system (LMS) used by most schools and courses at the University of Pennsylvania. You can find more information about using various features in Canvas below. Please contact us if you have a question concerning Canvas that is not mentioned below.

Setting up your Profile in Canvas

Setting your Profile, Notification Preferences, and other account settings can help you use Canvas more effectively.

• Canvas Avatars 
• Creating a Canvas Profile
• Setting Notification Preferences

Helpful Links to Get Started

These great "How-to" guides will help you get familiar with the most important tools in Canvas. 

All taken from the Canvas Community Instructor Guide. or Canvas at Penn Library Guide

• Using the new Rich Content Editor
  
• Announcements Index Page
• Assignments Index Page
• Course Home Page
• Course Navigation Menu
• Changing the Course Navigation
• How do I publish or unpublish an assignment as an instructor?
• What assignment types can I create in a course?
• What is the difference between assignment due dates and availability dates?

Help

Have questions about using Canvas? Please email online-learning-help@sas.upenn.edu.