The Canvas course site created for each course offering at Harvard is an important tool for teaching—whether in classrooms or online. Many instructors already use these sites to share the syllabus for their courses, and possibly as a place to collect assignments or circulate readings. In a situation in which you need to make changes to your course's instructional practices, Canvas can be an extremely useful means through which to communicate changes, coordinate lecture or sections, promote discussions, collect student work, provide feedback, share materials, etc.
- If you have not used Canvas for your class, you will need to publish your site in order to share it with students. You can find your site through the my.harvard course portal, and instructions on how to get started from Academic Technology for the FAS.
- Here is a PDF guide to using your site.