With the migration to Canvas comes many new features and methods for facilitating your course. The Canvas Guides provide a lot of information, but you may be wondering, where do I even start? Here at Ecampus, we’ve put together a few guides to help you become familiar with some of the tools in Canvas.

First, if you’re wondering, “I did this in Blackboard, but I can’t find it in Canvas; how do I…?”, we’ve created a few design options for that. These design options explore how to adapt features that you’ve used in Blackboard to the new Canvas environment.

• Design Options – Adaptive Release
• Design Options – Blogs
• Design Options – Discussion Boards
• Design Options – Folders and Items
• Design Options – Gradebook
• Design Options – Groups
• Design Options – Journals
• Design Options – Rubrics
• Design Options – Tests, Surveys, and Question Types
• Design Options – Wikis

We’ve also created some more in depth quick references that help explain how to use some of the most popular Canvas features.

• Quick Reference – Adaptive Release
• Quick Reference – Groups Tool
• Quick Reference – Moderating a Quiz
• Quick Reference – Peer Review Tool
• Quick Reference – Setting up Grades

The Quick Reference guides and other helpful Canvas-specific information can be found on our Canvas Faculty Resources page. We also have a list of resources for teaching an online course on our Teaching Resources page where you can find our favorite presentation, web-conferencing, and other tools.

Are there other features you’ve discovered or some you’d like to know more about? Leave your feedback in the comments!