Synchronous Workshops and Sessions

Spring 2025 Canvas Q&As 🗓

As we progress through the semester, are there any questions you have about using Canvas? Join this session to get assistance and chat with other faculty members who are also using Canvas.

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Asynchronous Resources and Materials

New to Me

A good place to start if this is your first time exploring the move to Canvas for your online/hybrid/Face to Face teaching.

Getting Started with Canvas – Video Recordings from Fall 2023

If you’re new to Canvas, we recommend watching the recordings from the “Getting Started with Canvas” sessions.

Canvas Checklist

This pdf outlines how to set up and navigate your courses as a faculty member. Use this to review the platform and the tools.

Example Canvas Course

“How to Make Spaghetti” is an example Canvas course for you to explore and familiarize yourself with the platform. Use this course to get ideas on your own course organization.

Pratt Canvas Basics

“Pratt Canvas Basics” is a Canvas course designed specifically for Pratt faculty’s use of Canvas. If you’ve never used Canvas before as an instructor, we recommend using this as a guide to setting up your Canvas courses for the first time while experiencing Canvas as a student. This course includes all the information you need to get started.

Canvas How-To Guides for Faculty & Students

Pratt Student Affairs has created a walkthrough for students to learn the basics of Canvas.

Just Brushing Up

A bevy of resources for refining your Canvas pedagogies once you’re familiar with the basics of building modules, assigning due dates, and creating your course landing page.

Canvas Resources PDF

This document is a great place to start to find the answers you need for your Canvas course. 

Adding Library Resources to Canvas

You can easily add library resources to your Canvas LMS by using built-in search tools. The library team has made this quick video to get you started.

Canvas Cheat Sheet for Faculty

Do you need a refresher on Canvas? The Canvas Cheat Sheet for Faculty is a PDF that includes step-by-step overviews of many Canvas topics (access to the PDF with your Pratt gmail below).

Videos from the T&L Forum

During the Teaching & Learning Fall Forum we had interactive Canvas Sessions that were used to explain the general Canvas setup once a Canvas course sandbox has been created. We recorded these sessions and made them available to you.

Next-level Canvas

Some Canvas rabbit-holes for you to travel down as you really get the hang of designing and redesigning the special parts of what make your class outstanding, engaging, and fun.

California Ed. Initiative Byte-sized Canvas Tutorials

This video series teaches you what’s new on Canvas (or just new to you!) and how you can use it, along with other pedagogical and technological tips to support high quality online course design.

How to add a custom link to your course navigation

Is there an external resource that you use often for your courses, such as Google Drive or Milanote, that you would like to include on the left side navigation on your Canvas course?

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