Canvas
Canvas by Instructure is the Learning Management System at CSI, and the learning designers in the Teaching & Learning Center are eager to help you to learn to use Canvas in optimal and efficient ways to teach your students, whether you teach online or in person.
With few exceptions, for every Canvas question we will recommend to you the Canvas Instructor Guides, a well-written, comprehensive, and illustrated set of guides on nearly every topic imaginable. Better still, there is an entire library of Canvas Student Guides you can pass along as well! We also find value in Canvas Commons, a digital library of educational content available to you with CSI's Canvas license. Simply click the "Commons" button in the Canvas Global Navigation Menu.
If you're interested in regular updates about what is new in Canvas, check out our monthly Teaching & Learning Takeout sessions, and the CSI Canvas news, tips, and takeaways we offer there.
Contained below is a collection of Canvas resources specific to CSI instructors.
Resources
Just in Time Canvas Resources
We recognize that CSI instructors are very busy, and have varying levels of experience and need for Canvas. To best meet needs, we prepared a resource course you can turn to for answers to the most frequently asked Canvas questions we find at CSI. A short, representative list of topics available in the course follows:
- How do I build a home page? Can you give me a template I can just modify?
- How do I design my course so that it works for my students across platforms, devices, and operating systems?
- How do I manage Canvas and Zoom together?
This course is set up for you as a self-enroll course, meaning you only need to click the following button, confirm your desire to join the course, and then find and accept the invitation to join on your Canvas Dashboard.
How Do I Find Help for Canvas?
CSI offers instructors multiple means of Canvas Support. Here is how you can clearly know who can help you best:
If your question is related to "how do I use Canvas to teach?", please contact either Canvas 24/7 Support - if you are learning about a new feature in Canvas - or contact the Teaching & Learning Center at tlc@csi.edu, or by visiting the "Get Help" page of this website.
If your question is related to "Canvas is broken", or "I don't have permissions to do what I need to do in Canvas", please contact either Canvas 24/7 Support, or the CSI Help Desk at 208 732 6311. To open a support ticket with the CSI Help Desk after hours, simply email helpdesk@csi.edu.
A fourth, excellent resource is available for you in the Canvas Global Navigation Menu. Look for and click the blue button titled "Need Help?". This opens the CSI Impact Support Center, a contextual and role-based tool that can recognize who you are and where you are in Canvas and provide article-based support accordingly.
Actionable Ideas
Help with Home Page Design
