Find your school's Canvas URL
To find your school or institution's Canvas URL, begin typing the name of your school/institution. Results will appear after you type at least 3 characters. For best results be as specific as possible. If you can't find your school, try using any part of your school's name or searching for your school district or state. You may also need to search for the school using the acronym or full name, for example "USU" and "Utah State University".
In Canvas Teacher, you can open context cards to view information specific to students and other users in a course. Context cards can be opened by tapping a user's name from the People page, Submissions list, SpeedGrader, SpeedGrader comments, inbox messages, announcement replies, and discussion replies. This lesson explains how to open context cards from the People page.
The images in this lesson are shown for a phone display, but unless otherwise noted, tablet displays mirror the same steps.
Open Course
In the Courses tab, tap the name of the course you’d like to view.
Open People
Tap the People link.
Open Context Card
To view the context card for a user, tap the name of the user.
View Student Context Card
The context card for a student includes their contact information [1], date/time of last activity [2], section [3], grade [4], number of submitted assignments [5], number of late assignments [6], and number of missing assignments [7].
If a final grade override has been applied for the student, the override grade will also display on the context card.
View User Context Card
Context cards for users other than students include contact information [1], date/time of last activity [2], and section [3].
View Assignments
You can view assignment information from a student's context card.
If the student's context card was opened from the People page, you can also open student submissions. To view or grade a student submission, tap name of the submission.
Message User
To message a user from a context card, tap the Message icon.