The Instructure Community will enter a read-only state on November 22, 2025 as we prepare to migrate to our new Community platform in early December.
Read our blog post for more info about this change.
What is the purpose of this campaign?
The purpose of this campaign is to help students who are new to Canvas orient themselves with the new environment, and provide them with the necessary support to get started in an efficient and effective manner.
Tool categories
🔧 The 'Profile, Syllabus, Calendar, ePortfolio, Pages, People, Quizzes, Conversations, Grades, Files, Assignments, Announcements' tool category should be toggled before importing the campaign on to display the content. Click here to find out how to manage tool categories in your dashboard.
Message placement
📌Dashboard page 📌Course home Page 📌Modules page
📌Syllabus page 📌Student course grades page 📌 Announcements page
📌Discussion topics page 📌Quizzes overview page 📌Assignments page
📌 People overview page 📌Course files page 📌Calendar page
📌Conversations page 📌My ePortfolio page 📌 Notification settings page
📌Account files page 📌Account settings page 📌 Course pages page
📌 All Courses Page
Support Articles
- What is the Inbox?
- What are Profile and User Settings?
- How do I use the Syllabus as a student?
- How do I manage my Canvas notification settings as a student?
- How do I manage notifications for a single course as a student?
- How do I change my login password as a student?
- How do I create a new page in my ePortfolio section as a student?
- How do I create a new ePortfolio as a student?
- How do I set a time zone in my user account as a student?
- How do I view Pages as a student?
- How do I use the People page in a course as a student?
- How do I view all groups in a course as a student?
- How do I join a group as a student?
- How do I add a profile picture in my user account as a student?
- How do I change the settings in my user account as a student?
- How do I add contact methods to receive Canvas notifications as a student?
- How do I view Quizzes as a student?
- How do I use the Inbox as a student?
- How do I reply to a message in the Inbox as a student?
- How do I approximate my assignment scores using the What-If Grades feature?
- How do I use the icons and colors in the Grades page?
- How do I view all my Canvas courses as a student?
- How do I connect to web services outside of Canvas as a student?
- How do I view my grades in a current course?
- How do I use the Dashboard as a student?
- How do I use the Global Navigation Menu as a student?
- How do I use Files as a student?
- How do I use the ePortfolio Getting Started Wizard as a student?
- How do I reply to a discussion as a student?
- How do I view Discussions as a student?
- How do I use the Course Home Page as a student?
- How do I use the Calendar as a student?
- How do I view Assignments as a student?
- How do I view Announcements as a student?
- How do I view my favorite courses in the Card View Dashboard as a student?
- How do I bulk upload files to my user or group files?
- How do I select personal pronouns in my user account as a student?
- How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Google Calendar as a student?
- How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Outlook as a student?
- How do I like a reply in a course discussion as a student?
- How do I edit or delete discussion replies as a student?
- How do I subscribe to a discussion as a student?
- How do I reply to an announcement as a student?
- How do I delete a file or folder as a student?
- How do I move and organize files as a student?
- How do I view course files as a student?
- How do I view group files as a student?
- How do I create a folder in Files as a student?
- How do I upload a file or image to my ePortfolio page as a student?
- How do I make my ePortfolio public as a student?
- How do I organize my ePortfolio pages as a student?
- How do I organize my ePortfolio as a student?
How can the impact of this campaign be measured?
Campaign engagement
Views on messages & links on support included inside messages
Views on support articles included in this campaign
Average tool adoption
Monitors have been placed on the following pages/elements as data points to define the use of the tool:
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