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:
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
- Canvas App for Android Phone (All Users) Links to an external site.
- Canvas App for Android Tablet (All Users) Links to an external site.
- Canvas App for iPad (All Users) Links to an external site.
- Canvas App for iPhone (All Users) Links to an external site.
- Canvas Help Resources (All Users) Links to an external site.
- Conversations Overview (All Users) Links to an external site.
- New Canvas User Interface (UI) Overview (All Users) Links to an external site.
- Notification Preferences (All Users) Links to an external site.
- Rich Content Editor (All Users) Links to an external site.
- User Settings & Profile Picture (All Users) Links to an external site.
Students
- Assignments Overview (Students) Links to an external site.
- Assignment Submissions (Students) Links to an external site.
- Calendar (Students) Links to an external site.
- Canvas Overview (Students) Links to an external site.
- Chat (Students) Links to an external site.
- Collaborations (Students) Links to an external site.
- Communication (Students) Links to an external site.
- Discussions (Students) Links to an external site.
- Files (Students) Links to an external site.
- Grades (Students) Links to an external site.
- Groups: Creation & Interaction (Students) Links to an external site.
- Peer Reviews (Students) Links to an external site.
- Quizzes (Students) Links to an external site.
5/23/16 - WVB