Getting Started with Canvas: Spring 2026 🗓
New to Canvas, or need a refresher? Join to get oriented before the semester starts.
December 19, 2025
Canvas LMS: Resources & Guides for Pratt Faculty
New to Canvas? Below, you’ll find three videos to get you started. The first video, made by Instructure, provides a quick overview of what Canvas is. The second and third videos below are recordings from previous tutorial sessions at the Pratt Center for Teaching and Learning. As you watch the tutorial videos, pause as needed and follow along step-by-step to set up your Canvas course.
Need a refresher? Check out this “getting started with Canvas” playlist for short videos describing various steps in the process, like uploading your syllabus, customizing the home page, and more.
Looking to dig deep? Scroll down to the “More Resources & Next Steps” section of this page for ideas to continue developing your digital course components.
Upcoming online workshops:
No upcoming workshops this semester; submit a request for one-on-one assistance.
Introduction to Canvas LMS: Video Tutorials
Canvas 101
Getting Started with Canvas Session 1: Intro to Canvas, Modules, Assignments
Getting Started with Canvas Session 2: Grading, Attendance, Discussions
More Resources & Next Steps
Do you have the Canvas basics down, and want to take steps to further customize your course?
Damon Chaky: Canvas Aesthetics Mini-Share
Have you ever wondered how to make your Canvas site more visually appealing? In this presentation video, generously shared by Damon Chaky (Math/Science Department, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences), Damon shares the styling tips he uses to make his Canvas courses more accessible, visually pleasing, and clearly navigable. Watch the video presentation, and explore the Canvas course by self-enrolling as a student.
**Please note that this Canvas site is a work in progress and will continue to be updated with more tools and department-specific resources.**
Holly Adams: Canvas Course Walkthrough
How can a robust Canvas course help support students, and save faculty members time in the long run? In this Canvas course walkthrough, Holly Adams (Humanities and Media Studies, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences) shares how the overall structure of Canvas aligns with the flow of their course, and provides examples of small ways that Canvas can further support student learning while not overburdening the teacher.
Would you be willing to share a walkthrough of your Canvas course with other Pratt faculty? Reach out to hadams30@pratt.edu
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Canvas Webinar: Gradebook, Rubrics, Assignment Groups 🗓
Interested in transforming your Canvas Gradebook? Join the CTL’s Educational Technologist for this informative session and learn how to set up weighted assignment groups to accurately calculate final grades, create rubrics and connect them to assignments, change your gradebook settings to manually post grades, and more.
December 19, 2025
Resource: External Tools and Integrations in Canvas
This recording and accompanying resource describe how to:
Seamlessly incorporate material from the Pratt Libraries into your Canvas course,
Utilize Lucid, Canvas’s interactive whiteboard tool,
Include a custom link in your course with the Redirect tool,
Use the Canvas Mods extension for updated user experience,
and get started with Perusall, a social annotation tool for reading assignments.
October 27, 2025