Welcome to the Canvas Essentials Guidebook!

These learning resource pages provide some useful information about essential Canvas features and tools. They are meant as a supplement to the official Canvas Instructor Guide and Video Guide.

Please click the links below and skim through these pages to learn more about Canvas functionality. Don't worry about trying to memorize everything!

Canvas Essentials Video Walkthrough - Part 1

Here is Part 1 of a 4 video playlist that covers the essential features of using Canvas to teach your courses. It is recommended that you not just passively watch the videos, because you will likely forget most of it. Instead, open up the video in a separate tab and pause occasionally and try out what you see in the video in your own Canvas course space or sandbox.

These pages are adapted for Valencia College from Kona Jones' Canvas Instructor Training with an open Creative Commons non-commercial share-alike license: