Canvas schedules regular maintenance on the 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month. Most maintenance windows will take place sometime between the hours of 12:05am and 4:05am local time. Canvas may be unavailable during maintenance times.

Communication and Working with Students

• Announcement Overview
• Canvas Conversations (Inbox)
• Course and Student Analytics
• Discussion Overview
• Notification Preferences
• People Overview
• Edit or Delete Calendar Events

Assessing Students

• Assignment Overview
• Calendar Overview
• Gradebook Overview
• Groups Overview: Create and Manage
• Quizzes Overview
• Rubrics Overview
• SpeedGrader Overview

Developing Content

• Canvas Overview
• Import Course Content
• Course Home Page Customization
• Course Settings
• Files Overview
• Modules Overview: Create and Manage
• Pages Overview: Creation and Management
• Sharing Content with Others

Canvas Tools

• Canvas Teacher App
• Commons Overview
• Commons: Find and Import Resources
• Canvas Studio Guides

Canvas guides provide topic specific help documents for instructors and students. You can search the guides or use the table of contents to locate a subject.

• Canvas Instructor Guide
• Canvas Mobile App Guides
• Canvas Student Guide

The Canvas Community can provide answers to common questions, share ideas, and you can join Canvas groups. The Canvas Community has over 450,000 users sharing and collaborating.

• Canvas Community

• Student Android
• Student iOS
• Teacher Android
• Teacher iOS

Canvas Release Notes maintain a current list of features and changes that will be deployed in a Canvas release. All features listed in the release notes will be available as part of the production release.

• May 18, 2024
• April 20, 2024
• March 16, 2024
• February 17, 2024
• January 20, 2024
• December 16, 2023
• December 12, 2023
• November 22, 2023
• November 18, 2023
• October 21, 2023
• September 16, 2023
• August 19, 2023
• July 15, 2023
• June 21, 2023

• Canvas New Feature Screencast