Home Page
Welcome to Canvas!
Canvas is Boston College's Learning Management System (LMS) and is being used by many instructors to enhance the learning experiences of their students. This introduction provides best practices for using the many features of Canvas as well as links to more detailed "how to" documentation. It is important to note that Boston College has customized its instance of Canvas to fit the needs of the university, so the generic "how to" documents referenced in this site may appear slightly different than Boston College course sites.
If you find yourself in need of further assistance, please contact the Center for Teaching Excellence Links to an external site.. We are always here to help.
Email: centerforteaching@bc.edu
Phone: 617-552-6576
Before you start:
Getting Started
Designing Your Course
- Options for organizing content
- Setting up your home page
- Importing content into your Canvas course
- Recommended course-level settings
- Modifying your course navigation bar
- Using the Rich Content Editor
- Working with Modules
- Working with Pages
- Working with Files
- Student view in Canvas
- Share your syllabus with the Syllabus Search tool in Canvas
- Library content in Canvas
- Adding Media to your Canvas Site
- Using Panopto in Canvas
- Canvas Commons
- Course Launch Checklist