Canvas
Canvas is your Learning Management System (LMS). When you enrol in a course, your course content will be made available by your Course Coordinator in the Canvas platform. You can utilise Canvas for a variety of online learning and collaboration with your fellow students and academic staff. Canvas has a consistent, intuitive user interface providing you with a better learning experience.
Help for Canvas
We have created some resources based on user feedback to help you navigate in Canvas:
- Introduction to Canvas – key Canvas terms and features
- Editing notifications – step by step guide to setting up your notification preferences to ensure you get the alerts you need
- Course nicknames and favourites – set your dashboard up to see your most used courses and nickname the course with what makes sense to you
- Portfolium – Connect via Canvas to Portfolium, a tool for creating a professional profile and linking projects.
- Passport to Canvas – Canvas offers students a self-paced course to learn everything you need to know about Canvas. Self enrol to get started.
- Canvas Student App – The app allows you to access courses and groups using a mobile device.
Canvas provides a comparison of functions between the web version and app.
Need some more help? The Canvas Community has a great range of guides and support to help you navigate Canvas.
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