New to Canvas

Watch the video tutorial for teachers about the interface

https://community.canvaslms.com/videos/1095

Watch the video tutorial for students about the interface

https://community.canvaslms.com/videos/1124

Read the guides about the interface

https://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/c/23848

We recommend that teachers organize the course content by modules. Modules make it easier for both teachers and students to follow the progress of a course and have an overview of what’s coming up next.

Watch the video tutorial

https://community.canvaslms.com/videos/1073

Read the guides

https://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/c/307150

You can view a course the same way that your students view your course through Student View.

Enabling Student View creates a Test Student in your course. You can also activate Student View in your Course Settings.

To see the student's perspective on Canvas, use Student View to view the course, post and reply to discussions, submit assignments, view grades, view people, view pages, view the syllabus, view quizzes, view the calendar, and view the scheduler (if enabled). You can reset Test Student data at any time; however, Test Student activity that involves interactions with other students cannot be removed, such as discussion replies.  

Canvas sends notifications about occurring events.

When you login to Canvas for the first time you are asked how and when you would like to be notified of events in Canvas. You can also find these setting under the menu Account and Notifications. Canvas sends notifications about occurring events and you have 4 options of how to be notified. Right away, daily summary, weekly summary or not at all. These setting are personal and effects all your courses. If you are a user of the mobile application it has independent settings for push notifications.  

Guide

https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-13111-4152719738