Comprehensive Overviews
| Learning Opportunity | Format | Links | Details |
| LinkedIn Learning | Videos |
Access your USask LinkedIn Learning License |
A comprehensive, self-contained, professionally produced video course to introduce you to Canvas’ main features. |
| Canvas for TAs and Markers | Self-paced, self-guided Canvas Course | Email r.campbell@usask.ca | TAs and Markers can be added to a Canvas course to learn to use the features they need at their own pace on their own schedule. |
Feature-Specific How-to
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Place to get help |
Format |
Links |
Details |
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Canvas Community |
Videos & Text Instructions |
Feature Guides |
Our vendor’s user documentation and videos, helpful for learning details of specific features. |
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USask-Specific Canvas Videos |
Videos |
Video versions of our live professional learning sessions, with in-depth looks at certain features. |
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USask IT Support Knowledge Base |
Text instructions |
Search the IT Support Knowledge Base |
Instructions for completing certain tasks, especially ones that are more unique to USask. |
Help on Specific Issues
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Place to get help |
Format |
Links |
Details |
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Canvas 24/7 Support |
Live Chat |
Click Help in the left-hand global navigation after signing in at https://canvas.usask.ca |
24/7 access to our vendor’s support team, for helping you with any Canvas-specific issues. |
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USask IT Support |
Email/Support Tickets |
Search our IT Support Knowledge Base and/or submit a ticket to IT Support, especially for our external app integrations in Canvas (Panopto, Webex, etc.). |
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Distance Education Unit Support |
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Ask the Distance Education Unit (DEU) questions about designing learning activities and assessments. |
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movetocanvas@usask.ca |
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USask’s Move to Canvas team, here to help you learn to use Canvas and apply Canvas’ features well in your courses. |
Getting Strong Learning Results using Canvas Tools
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Place to get help |
Format |
Links |
Details |
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Course Design Checklist |
Self-assessment document |
Email movetocanvas@usask.ca if you’d like someone to go through the checklist with you and to discuss how you to apply the criteria in the list. |
A checklist of pedagogically recommended things to do in your Canvas course to improve accessibility and learning. |
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Educatus Blog |
Blog |
Shining the spotlight on effective uses of Canvas to enhance your courses and use Canvas better. |
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DEU Blog |
Blog |
Instructional design ideas, online teaching tools, and best practices for online teaching and learning from the Distance Education Unit Instructional Designers. |
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DEU Digest |
Newsletter |
Back issues of the Distance Education Unit Digest which offer bite-sized weekly offerings of edtech quick tips, resources, news, and learning opportunities with a focus on remote, online and distance course design strategies. |
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Student Canvas Blog |
Blog |
Blog posts written by a student for students about making the most of their courses being offered in Canvas. This is a great link to share with your students. |
Supported Learning
In addition to the above opportunities, we also have scheduled live workshops that you can attend where we explain features of Canvas in the context of out Learning Technology Ecosystem Principles. If you are interested in learning more about these workshops, please visit the link below.