Canvas cyber incident update

Canvas is currently in an 'early adopter' stage of release, not all Imperial students and staff will currently have access.
Learning Management System project

Introduction to Canvas for staff

The teaching and learning materials in Canvas are delivered to students through a Canvas course. Each course contains content specific to the enrolled cohort of students and is usually associated with a particular faculty or department.

The content, enrollments, and administration of courses in Canvas are the responsibility of the associated Faculty or Department.

For help and guidance of the best pedagogy of how to build your course, which tools to use and when, we recommend contacting your Faculty Ed-Tech Lab.

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Setup my Canvas profile and preferences

You are able to add an amount of additional information to your Canvas account including:

Photos on your Canvas profile must be a clear picture of you i.e. not wearing sunglasses, not generated by AI or be of other people or objects.  Uploaded photos that do not meet these criteria or that are inappropriate may be taken down by the institution and the ability to upload profile photos locked.  Photos must be uploaded, it is not possible to link to Gravatar images from the Imperial's Canvas profiles.

Find my courses

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Create a course

An introduction to the different types of Canvas course and how they are created

Find out more about course creation

Personalise my course

A how to guide for updating the banner and tile images in your course to personalise it to your subject and department

How to add banner and tile images

Create content

Instructions on how to create content within a course on Canvas

Get help creating content

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Enrol students or staff

Instructions on how to enrol students or other staff to your Canvas course

Find out more about enrollments

Communicate with students

There are a number of tools from Canvas and other integrated tools you can use to facilitate communication and collaboration between you and your students.

Find out more about collaboration tools

Deliver assignments

You can create student assignments in your canvas course using tools native Canvas assignment tools or Turnitin.

Find out more about available assignment tools

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Deliver assessment

Canvas has a number of tools integrated that can be used for student assessment.

Tools include: Canvas Quizzes, Mobius assessment, FeedbackFruits, MATLAB Grader, Intedashboard and ed discussion

Find out more about delivering assessment via Canvas

Make courses accessible

Ally focuses on making digital content in Canvas more accessible for staff and students. It provides alternate formats of documents for students, assesses the accessibility of content and provides reports and guidance to help you improve the accessibility of your materials.

How Ally can help make your course more accessible

grades groups and course analytics

Grade student work

More information on using the Canvas gradebook, rubrics and speedgrader

Find out more about grading

Use groups in Canvas

Groups are a small version of a course and used as a collaborative tool where a minimum of two students can work together on group projects and assignments.

Find out more about using groups in Canvas

Use course analytics

Course Analytics provides interactive graphs and tables that allow instructors and students to track data related to course grades, activity, and communication.

Find out more about Canvas course analytics

Technical issues and training

ICT Service Desk South Kensington Library

ICT Service Desk

Any technical issues with Canvas should be reported to the ICT Service Desk.

Contact the ICT Service Desk.

Canvas help and support for staff

More help and support