Instructors and students can log into Canvas at canvas.ubc.ca with a Campus-Wide Login. To ensure you are ready for the upcoming term, check out our Start of Term Checklist.

You can use the Announcements tab on the navigation bar to post or schedule an announcement to go out to students. By default, students who are enrolled in the course will get notified via email that their instructor has posted an announcement. Announcements will only be sent out if the course is Published.

Need to send out an announcement before giving students access to course content? Use the Faculty Service Centre (FSC)!

By default, students’ notifications are set so they get an email about all announcements from Canvas. However, students are able to customise their notification settings, it is important to let them know what type of communication they should see immediately and adjust their notification preferences accordingly.

Discussions can be used to encourage student engagement by facilitating online, asynchronous student interactions. You can create a discussion and allow students to respond to the prompt in a forum-like format. Discussions can be graded or ungraded, graded discussions are automatically added to the Gradebook by Canvas just like an assignment would be.

You can also create group discussions and assign them to different Student Groups. This would allow each group to have their own Discussion thread and a space within their Group homepage, rather than the general class Discussion page.