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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

Find out when my course will be live to students?

Canvas courses are live to students once you have changed the course status to 'published' and the start date has passed.

  • Curriculum courses will have a default start date that matches the Imperial term dates.
  • Informational courses do not have a start date set by default.

Your faculty Ed-Tech lab may have organised a different start date for your course if it starts earlier than the expected term date would usually permit.  You can check your course start date by viewing your course 'settings' from the left hand course menu.

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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 including, announcements, discussions, calendar, inbox and to do lists.

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

Canvas app for teachers

You can use the Canvas teacher app to manage courses, mare submissions and grade assignments.

Find out more about the Canvas teacher app

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

AI and third party tools and integrations

Using AI in Canvas: What you need to know

Learn how Artificial Intelligence (AI) features are used within Canvas and what this means for your teaching and learning activities. This page explains the AI capabilities currently available in Canvas, how data is used and protected, and the safeguards in place to support privacy, security and responsible use, helping staff make informed decisions about adopting AI-enhanced tools and workflows.

Third-Party Tools and Integrations for Canvas

Explore the third-party tools and integrations currently supported with Canvas at Imperial, including solutions for assessment, collaboration, discussion, accessibility, reading lists, coding and specialist teaching activities. This page provides an overview of available integrations, links to further guidance for each service, and information on how to request the evaluation of new tools or integrations through Imperial's Digital Tools governance process.

Technical issues and training

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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