Getting Started with Canvas As a Student

 

The best place to have all of your Canvas Questions answered is the Virtual Valley page on the Los Angeles Valley College website.

Go here to check it out: http://www.lavc.edu/virtualvalley/studentResources.html Links to an external site.

What can you find there? Behold:

Screen Shot 2016-08-11 at 2.46.13 PM.png

How to Use the Canvas Platform

You may be like me and you learn better, faster, if you have a guide in your hand. The Canvas Guide is comprehensive, endlessly searchable, and (IMO) very cool. Go here to access it (and bookmark the page so you can access it later):

It may be that you first wish to take a simple and short self-paced course to learn about the Canvas platform. Kudos for you for aiming high. Here is a link for you:

Finally, what type of browser does Canvas work best with? How much computer memory will you need? For these technical questions, go here: 

Further Questions?

If  you have them, be aware that there is a little HELP button, right now, in the left lower corner of this screen. Click on it to find the secrets that await. You have all you need -- as is usually the case -- for you to succeed in our course. But will you use the many resources at your fingertips? I hope so. 

That little HELP button is always with you, on the Global Navigation Bar, on every page of the Campus platform. Please remember to use it. 

 A Video Guide to Canvas

All Users

Students

5/23/16 - WVB