Below are some general questions and answers about Canvas, the Student role, and links to resources to help you be comfortable with Canvas. Visit the Student Guides to learn more. ...

Pandatar History Many years ago in a Denny’s in Salt Lake City, a graphic artist who worked for Instructure sat working away on his laptop and drinking cup after cup of black coffee well into the nig...

Your instructor can assign you to review another student's assignment. You can view peer review notifications in Canvas in the Recent Activity Stream, the To Do list, and from the i...

Hi @William42, There's currently a feature idea requesting to add quizzes created with the New Quizzes tool to the teacher's To Do list when quizzes are submitted (New Quizzes: Dashboard T...

The results are in for the Community Avatar Contest! We asked our members to help refresh the default Community “pandatars” with select user-created avatars. Here are the top five results: In fifth pl...

Some institutions may enable a feature in Canvas called Profiles. Profiles allows you to update your name, preferred contact methods, and any personal ...

Student analytics show you how well a particular student is doing in your course. You can view analytics in both active and concluded courses. Only active and completed student enrollme...

If enabled by your institution, you can select personal pronouns to add to your user account. Personal pronouns display after your name in various areas in Canvas, including: Assignmen...

Canvas is built on open web standards, so most features are supported on mobile devices.  You can learn more about mobile applications in the Canvas Mobile Guides. Mobil...

The high contrast user interface (UI) enhances the color contrast of text, buttons, and other elements so they are more distinct and easier to identify in Canvas. High contrast UI can a...