• We highly recommend taking our Self-paced Beginner's Guide to Teaching with Canvas for a comprehensive, step-by-step overview of designing your Canvas shell.
• View the Canvas Instructor Quick Guide.
• Check the Canvas Faculty Guides below.
• Enroll in a Canvas flex workshop (or watch a recording of a previous session).

Canvas sites are created automatically each term through District IT, typically seven weeks before the start of that term. 

Use your InSite username and password to log into our DVC Canvas site: dvc.instructure.com

Forgot your username or password?  Contact District IT:

• email IT-help@4cd.edu
• call 925-229-6888

Yes, many departments host Canvas sites with support materials for their instructors.  Please contact your department chair with inquiries. 

Sometimes instructors choose to combine sections on Canvas when teaching more than one section of the same course.  IMPORTANT: The process of combining sections will wipe out any existing content in your Canvas shells.  Before combining sections, be sure your Canvas shells are empty, or create an export of any existing materials to import into your newly combined sections.

• Log into InSite.
• Click the "Resources" tile.
• Click "Canvas Combine Sections."
• Be sure to review the instructions for keeping interactions between students in differing sections separate (FERPA) before completing your request.  (Learn more in the Guide to Combined Canvas Sections and FERPA and the DVC FERPA Quick Guide.)

See Requesting a Canvas Combo Site for instructions with screenshots.

Students will not see your Canvas shell until you publish your course.  Before publishing your course, please review our Canvas training materials to ensure your course design is accessible and supports student success.

Please email Jeanette Peavler and/or Kat King with your request.  Sandbox courses are available for faculty to work on course design, for departments, and for faculty training needs. 

Please review the Non-instructional Canvas Shells Guidelines for other shell requests, particularly those that are student-facing.  Then, submit the Non-instructional Canvas Shell Request Form for review by the Distance Education Committee.

Learn how to finalize grades, download course content for your records, and copy Canvas content between semesters in our End-of-semester Canvas and Tech Wrap Up guide.

Canvas upgraded their Rich Content Editor (RCE), so things will look a little different when you create content on Canvas. Learn more about the new interface:

• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I use the menubar in the RCE as an instructor?
• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I use the Math Editor in the new RCE?

• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I create a new page in a course?
• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I set a home page in a course?

• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I manage course navigation links?

• DVC Guide: Canvas Announcements
• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I show recent announcements on a course Home Page?

• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I upload a PDF to a Canvas course?
• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I embed an image in a Canvas page?
• Learn about linking live docs from OneDrive/Google Drive
• Tip: Check to make sure you have Accessible Word Docs and Accessible PDFs

• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I create a new page in a course?

• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I create an assignment in a course?

• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I create a discussion?

• Canvas Instructor Guide: Quizzes
• Canvas Instructor Guide: New Quizzes

• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I create a module?
• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I add content to a module?

310 - Gradebook Overview from Instructure Canvas Community on Vimeo.

• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I use the Gradebook?
• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I select a grade posting policy for a course in the Gradebook? 
• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I weight grades? 
• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I drop the lowest score in a grading category? 
• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I curve grades in the Gradebook?

Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I leave feedback comments for students in Speedgrader?

• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I publish a course?

• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I copy content from one semester to the next?

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• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I import from Commons?
• DVC Guide to Importing from Commons (with links to local course templates and support materials)

• Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I designate pronouns on Canvas?

• Canvas Instructor Guide (text-based with screenshots)
• Canvas Video Guides for Instructors 
• Canvas Student Guides
• Canvas - Ask the Community 
• Canvas DVC Faculty Support Line: 1-833-221-7461
• Canvas Support for DVC Students: 1-844-303-5586 
• Access the Canvas Training Portal by logging into Canvas, clicking "Help" in the global navigation menu, and clicking "Training Services Portal."

• Trainings through @one.
• @one YouTube channel Bite-Sized Canvas 

• Visit the Staff Development Center to meet with campus trainers. 
• Contact:
  • Jeanette Peavler, Canvas Administrator: jpeavler@dvc.edu
  • Crystala Button, Technology Training and Development Coordinator: cbutton@dvc.edu
  • Kat King, Instructional Technologist: kking@dvc.edu