Harkness Tower rises dramatically into the darkening sky at dusk

First impressions matter

Capture your users’ attention with the bold, visually engaging Grand Hero.

Example Landing Page

Quickly build dynamic landing pages to help your users navigate and engage with sections of your website by using the View Block.

View of pages

  • About Us

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

  • News & Announcements

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

  • Alternatives to 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 Account Request

    Anonymous grader request form to be used by Math students.

  • Banner Information Feeding Canvas

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

  • Canvas Admin Access

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

  • Canvas Admin Access Renewal

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

  • Canvas Admin Access Request

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

  • Canvas Announcements

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

  • Canvas Assignment Tool

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

  • Canvas Collaborations

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

  • Canvas Discussions

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

  • Canvas Groups

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

  • Canvas Guest Account Request

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

  • Canvas Inbox

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

  • Canvas Modules

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

  • Canvas Pages

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

  • Canvas Quizzes

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

  • Canvas Syllabus

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

  • Get in Touch

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

  • Copyright Tips and Good Practices

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

  • Course Creation Timing

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

  • Course Feedback & Accessibility Barriers Tool

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

  • Course Roles & Permissions

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

  • Course Spotlights

    Highlighting Canvas and Course Technologies

  • Ed Discussion

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

  • Attend an Event

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

  • Expanded Course Description

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

  • Favorite Courses on your Canvas Dashboard

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

  • FeedbackFruits

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

  • Filtering a Course List

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

  • Gradescope

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

  • Instructional Tools

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

  • LabArchives

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

  • Learning with Canvas

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

  • LinkedIn Learning

    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

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

  • Media Library (Panopto)

    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

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

  • Perusall

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

  • Policies

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

  • Poll Everywhere

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

  • Project Site Request

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

  • Qualtrics LTI

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

  • Request Forms

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

  • Requesting an External Application

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

  • Respondus LockDown Browser

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

  • Sandbox Site Request

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

  • Sign Up Tool

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

  • Spotlights

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

  • Student Notification Recommendations

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

  • Support

    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.

  • System Announcements

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

  • Teaching with Canvas

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

  • Text-Only Page

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

  • Troubleshooting Banner-Canvas Issues

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

  • Turnitin

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

  • Types of Canvas Sites

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

  • Umbrella Site Request

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

  • VoiceThread

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

  • Welcome

    *add metadata tags here improves seo and be used in social media

  • WordPress

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

  • WordPress For Canvas Request

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

  • Yale ITS: Feedback & Accessibility Barriers Tool

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

  • Yale ITS: Mid-Semester Feedback

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

  • Yale ITS: Photo Roster

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

  • Yale ITS: Post'Em

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

  • Zoom

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

How it works

Say you’re creating an Academics section on your website that contains several sub-pages. Add an ‘academics’ tag to each of your pages. Then, place a View of Pages on your landing page and set it to only include content that uses the term ‘academics.’ Your View will automatically update whenever you publish or unpublish a page tagged ‘academics.’

Conversely, you can build a View by excluding terms, as we’ve done here. Our homepage and landing page are tagged ‘example’ to remove them from our View. Try editing the example View Block’s settings so you can see how it works.

This approach can be used to curate any published content type. For example, you can make a featured news area on your homepage, highlight marquee events or create a custom Profile directory.

Tags and categories

YaleSites includes a selection of commonly used taxonomy terms to help get you started, but you can add your own at any time.

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