Canvas Best Practices

U-M Library's E-Learning Committee has created this guide providing best practices for librarians using Canvas. This tutorial is intended as a supplement to the basic Canvas support documentation available at the Instructor website.

Use the tabs at the left to explore:

• Setting up a course
  • How should you set up your Canvas course from the beginning?
• User Interface
  • What should each page of a module look like?
• Images — Borders — Resolution — Naming — Tracking (coming soon)
  • What should your images look like?
• Settings
  • What can you tweak to get the most out of Canvas?
• Sharing
  • What are the best ways to share content from Canvas?

For questions about the information provided in this guide, please email the E-Learning Committee at e-learning-lib@umich.edu.