Canvas Launchpad
The dedicated Canvas how-to layer for navigation, Student View, headings, links, files, assignments, modules, publication, Link Validator, grades, announcements, Inbox, New Quizzes, accessibility tools, and more.
Instructional Support
Instructional Technology
Use Canvas and instructional tools with purpose — from course setup and grading workflows to accessibility, access, and choosing the right tool for the learning.
Canvas basics & course setup
Build a course students can enter and use.
Useful when you need help with navigation, modules, files, dates, publication, Student View, course entry, or the practical mechanics of getting Canvas ready.
Course Readiness
Use a concise pre-launch checklist to verify student-facing setup before the course begins.
New Faculty Canvas Course Launch
Guided support for faculty who want to work through Canvas setup and student-ready course preparation in a supported experience.
Assessment tools
Match Canvas features to the evidence you need.
Useful after you know what students should demonstrate and need implementation help with Canvas assessment tools.
Beyond Multiple Choice
Use Hot Spot, Stimulus, Categorization, Ordering, and other New Quizzes options when those formats better fit the evidence you want to collect.
Authentic Student Work
If the bigger question is what evidence students should produce—not which Canvas button to use—start with the instructional-design decision first.
Grading & feedback tools
Use grading tools efficiently and intentionally.
Useful when you need help implementing criteria, rubrics, SpeedGrader, grade visibility, or feedback workflows in Canvas.
Rubrics Made Easy
Build a Canvas rubric, attach it to the appropriate activity, use it in SpeedGrader, and verify how students experience it.
Meaningful Feedback
If the question is what feedback students can actually use, begin with the instructional-practice decision and then choose the Canvas workflow.
Accessibility & access
Make the technology path usable.
Useful when students may encounter barriers related to content structure, links, files, media, accessibility tools, accounts, devices, software, cost, or support routes.
Accessibility & Inclusive Design
Use current accessibility practices and learner-perspective checks rather than treating automated Canvas checks as proof that everything is accessible.
Student Support & Technology Access
Make requirements and recovery routes visible: what students need, how they get it, where support lives, and what happens when the expected technology path fails.
Canvas Launchpad
Use the Canvas-specific implementation guidance for headings, alt text, links, tables, files, accessibility checking, Student View, and related setup.
Instructional tools
Choose tools because they serve the learning.
Useful when deciding whether a Canvas feature or instructional technology adds value, changes what students can do, or simply adds another requirement.
Purposeful technology use
Start with the learning need, student action, access requirements, and support implications. Technology is a means, not the instructional goal.
Need help choosing or setting something up? Get Help can connect the tool question to the instructional goal instead of treating technology in isolation.