Canvas for Instructors & TA

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 a variety of features in Canvas for faculty, staff, or TAs. 

Setting up your Profile in Canvas

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

• Canvas Avatars for Faculty/Staff/TAs
• Creating a Canvas Profile for Faculty/Staff/TAs
• Setting Notification Preferences for Faculty/Staff/TAs

Helpful Links to Get Started

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

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

• How do I use the new Rich Content Editor?
  
• How do I use the Announcements Index Page?
• How do I use the Assignments Index Page?
• 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?
• How do I use the Course Home Page as an instructor?         
• How do I use the Course Navigation Menu as an instructor?          
• How do I manage Course Navigation links?

Help

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