Is there something similar to the Setup Tutorial for New Students using canvas for the first time?

[ETPho]

We have a high amount of brand new students to Canvas and we do have a self-made guide we built into the courses but notice that many students will briefly skim or just bypass it to get to the actual course.  Now I know for teachers, there is the Setup Tutorial which describes everything pretty well and has basic functionality. These pop-outs would be extremely helpful for our students just to provide some quick information on what is what with Canvas in General or have that option so we can modify some of the information on those pop-outs.

Just something Student facing and not just for teachers.

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @ETPho ...

Not sure if anything like this is available for students in the form of slide-out trays, but there are a set of short videos on this page that might be of help (as an alternative):

Getting Started with Canvas as a Student - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

[ETPho]

Could this be something to consider being implemented? Video Tutorials are great but have to be watched and of course, not all students will sit and watch a video if we had that slide-out tray just available as a tool we can use or just push it so students can view it as well with student-facing wording.  If a pop-up appears and it is like "Hey! Look at me!" our help desk wouldn't be so slammed with numerous calls from new students saying "I'm new and I don't know what to do!"  This should be the most efficient way to provide a nice little tutorial just like a brand new video game where they give an immersive tutorial just to get that initial familiarity.  Thank you for listening!

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

@ETPho ...

Full disclosure...I'm not an Instructure employee, so I don't have much inside knowledge on what they are working on as far as new enhancements to Canvas.  I don't know if this will be helpful, but you might want to take a look at this posting:

Upcoming Canvas Tier 1 Support Improvements - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

There is also a product that Instructure recently acquired called Impact (formerly EesySoft) which has a few of the same types of features as outlined in the link I provided, but Impact has a lot more features that what is described in the link above.  I believe there is an additional cost for Impact.

(1) Impact - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

Finally, if neither of those things would quite meet your needs, you might want to try creating a Feature Idea (or maybe one already exists that you could add your comments to).

• How do idea conversations work in the Instructure Community?
• What is the feature development process for Instructure products?
• How do I create a new idea conversation in the Instructure Community?

Hope this will be helpful to you in some way!