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Summarize your history, highlight your mission statement, or reinforce the services you provide to the Yale community.

Keep up to date with what’s going on with Canvas @ Yale

Depending on your needs, there are other solutions that may better suit your situation than using Canvas for project and/or non-degree course site.

Anonymous grader request form to be used by Math students.

Official academic course sites are created in Canvas automatically from course offerings and registration enrollments managed by the SIS, Banner.

The Canvas Administrator role allows users to search for, view, and in some cases add / edit / remove users and content to a Canvas course. 

Get answers to some frequently asked questions regarding Canvas @ Yale admin access and the renewal process.

Canvas admin access is high level access for users to search for and access Canvas course sites to support a school or department.

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Instructors in a Canvas course have the ability to send Announcements to students in their course.

This is one of several native Canvas tools that allows instructors to collect student work for grading.

The Collaborations tool in Canvas allows students and instructors to create collaborative documents together.

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Provides instructors and students the opportunity to contribute and discuss asynchronously.

Canvas Group Sets/Groups tool allows instructors to split students up into smaller working groups for collaborative assignment work and discussions.

Canvas guest accounts receive a Canvas User Sponsored Identity, which provides non-Yale affiliates with a NetID and password to access Canvas @ Yale.

Inbox is a two-way messaging tool used instead of email to communicate with a course, a group, or an individual user.

Canvas Modules allow instructors to bring together resources and activities from across their Canvas course site into modules for easier access.

Canvas Pages deliver information and content to students, create a front page to welcome students to your course, or provide a way to collaborate.

A native Canvas feature which is available in all Canvas course sites. Canvas Quizzes allows instructors to create high and/or low stakes assessments.

An interactive syllabus of the course site using the rich content editor to add links, files, images, media, and more.

Provide visitors with a clear pathway for connection, whether to ask a question or share some feedback.

We suggest the following strategies to support the appropriate use of materials via the Canvas learning management system.

Each semester academic Canvas course sites are created once the course data is completed by registrars. 

Submit a comment through the Course Feedback & Accessibility Barriers tool to anonymously share feedback or a barrier to your learning.

Canvas @ Yale supports differentiated roles to control access and permissions of users in a course.

Highlighting Canvas and Course Technologies

A powerful threaded discussion tool that allows instructors and students to share and interact asynchronously.

Showcase and promote your events using the powerful publishing tools available on YaleSites.

The Expanded Course Description is added to the Syllabus tool in Canvas to facilitate student access to additional information during registration.

Utilize the ‘Favorites’ function to organize and find all of your courses easily within your Canvas @ Yale Dashboard each semester.

FeedbackFruits is a robust assessment and feedback tool suite that can facilitate individual or group oriented assessment activities.

The Courses list, found in the Global Navigation menu, can be sorted and searched to make it easier to find specific course sites.

Designed to streamline and standardize paper-based, digital, and code assignments. It supports problem sets and projects, worksheets and quizzes.

Canvas @ Yale supports many external and internal applications that are integrated into Canvas to support and improve teaching and learning.

LabArchives is a cloud-based lab notebook that can be used to organize, create, collaborate, and collect lab / research notes.

Canvas is the digital extension of your course where learning happens beyond the walls of the classroom. 

Online, curated video courses designed for in-depth and just-in-time instruction on various tools (e.g. Excel, Tableau) and technical / soft skills.

Login to Canvas @ Yale with your Yale NetID or Canvas local account.

A streaming video service that is integrated into Canvas. Media Library can be used to store, share, and stream uploaded audio and video files.

Panorama assists instructors in building a more inclusive learning environment, and improve the student experience by helping them take clear control.

An annotation tool that helps your students engage collectively with texts.

Terms of Use, Copyright, and Data policies pertaining to Canvas @ Yale.

Yale’s supported system for in-class polling. Using a cloud based “bring your own device” model for polling.

Faculty or Staff Yale NetID holders can request to have a non-academic project site in Canvas.

Qualtrics allows for faculty to create and share robust, responsive surveys to collect data and feedback.

Forms Yale community members can fill out to request specific functions and information on and about Canvas @ Yale.

The Poorvu Center reviews all third-party tools that faculty or departments indicate they are interested in using for teaching.

A custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a learning management system.

A sandbox course is an unofficial course site which does not receive enrollment data.

Use the Sign Up Tool to reserve or release a time slot for an appointment group in Canvas when made available by your instructor.

Exceptional teaching and use of Canvas and/or our instructional tools available to the Yale community.

Specify your preferred notification cadence at both your Canvas account level as well as at an individual Canvas course level. 

Need assistance with Canvas? Looking for a guide or resource to reference on how to accomplish a specific goal in Canvas? Check out our Support page.

Announcements and status updates regarding Canvas @ Yale and our integrated external applications.

Canvas lets you manage your course files, communication, and users. Learn more about how to leverage Canvas and your course settings effectively.

We’ve crafted this example to demonstrate how YaleSites Blocks shine, whether you have multimedia assets or not.

Changes in Banner can have major impacts on downstream systems like Canvas. Learn more about common issues / situations that registrars may encounter.

A tool to help faculty and students develop and evaluate written scholarship.

Canvas is used for many different programs, events, and purposes at Yale. Learn more about the types of Canvas course sites available.

Umbrella sites are used by multi-section courses to enable the course director to provide information for all sections in one place.

An asynchronous discussion tool that centers video and audio responses as the primary form of response option to promote community and engagement.

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Wordpress is an online blogging solution creating a site where students and instructors can post and comment on a variety of topics.

Wordpress is supported as an extension to your Canvas course site. 

Promotes anonymous feedback reporting for accessibility barriers at any time on course or content during the term by providing an open feedback box.

A Yale-developed survey tool created to support faculty in the collection of anonymous student feedback during a set-time around the semester midterm.

Available to Instructors and TAs to provide additional information like student photo, major, year, college, course section, and email address.

Provides detailed text feedback to students by uploading a single CSV file. The file can contain multiple columns of feedback or upload multiple files

A web / video conferencing tool, which allows instructors to meet with their students synchronously online.