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Canvas Guide for Faculty & Staff

 

What is Canvas?

Getting Started with Canvas

  • Login information
    • Log in from our PortalGuard site – login.yccd.edu
    • Direct link to our Production Canvas – https://yccd.instructure.com
      • Your login credentials are same as your WebAdvisor; same format
    • Direct link to our Test Environment – https://yccd.test.instructure.com
      • Good for testing things without affecting your live course.
      • Please note – Data in the test environment gets refreshed (overwritten from production environment) every three weeks

 

  • Your courses
    • Your courses are automatically populated from our registration system (Ellucian Colleague) over to Canvas. This process initially occurs around the time courses open for enrollment. There are a number of reasons why a specific course (section) may not appear within your Canvas environment.
      • The course (section) may still be in the audit state or you’re not the assigned instructor — the secretary of your department should be able to view and/or update this information via our registration system.
        • Please note – Any changes made in our registration system can take up to six hours to reflect within Canvas.
    • If you are teaching multiple sections of the same course, you can merge students into a single course.
    • If you already have course content in another Canvas course, you can import it into your new course.

 

  • Your Students
    • Your students are also added/dropped automatically from within Canvas automatically.
      • Again, these changes are pushed from our registration system and the process can take up to six hours to reflect within your Canvas courses.
        • Please note – Students on the waiting list are not pushed over until they are officially enrolled in the course.

 

 

 

 

  •  Getting Additional Help from within Canvas

 

 

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