Teaching With Canvas

Your one-stop-shop for guidance and resources for using Canvas.

This page provides guides and resources for using Canvas at Bellevue College. Whether you are new to Canvas or an experienced course designer, you should bookmark this page as it contains tons of resources to help you get the most out of Canvas and get support when needed.


Essential Resources

These Canvas resources are essential for instructors. From the comprehensive Canvas Instructor Guide, to an off-the-shelf Getting Started Module that can be added to your course(s), to Canvas training options for your students, these resources will ensure you and your students are getting the most from Canvas.

Canvas Instructor Guide

Find detailed walkthroughs and videos from Instructure for anything and everything you’ll ever need to do in Canvas!

View Canvas Instructor Guide

Getting Started Module

Get your course off the ground and students working in your course(s) seamlessly with a custom-built getting started module template designed for BC instructors.

Learn More About the Getting Started Module

Student Canvas Training

Students have a number of options for learning how to use Canvas and be successful in online and hybrid courses at Bellevue College. For new students or students who want to practice as they learn Canvas, we recommend The Student Canvas Training Workshop, but there are other options available as well. Select the button below to see all the student Canvas training options.

Learn About the Student Canvas Training Workshop

As you start building your online course sites, these checklists will help you build organized and accessible content to provide students with a rich and seamless learning experience.

From the BC eLearning Committee

Is your Canvas site ready for the quarter? This checklist, developed by the BC eLearning Committee, provides a step-by-step checklist for setting up core components of your Canvas course.

View Canvas Tools Checklist for Faculty (PDF)

This checklist, developed by the BC eLearning Committee, focuses on essential components required by Bellevue College and provides links to useful resources such as the BC Syllabus Template.

View Course Design Checklist for Canvas

From Instructure

This checklist from Instructure can be used by instructors and course designers to build and develop Canvas courses that include essential components and follow best practices for creating high-quality, high-impact course that are accessible to all students. Version 3.0 now includes “Mobile App Considerations”.

Download the Course Evaluation Checklist 3.0

This checklist from Instructure provides some useful steps for instructors to take at the beginning and end of each course to help them run and manage their courses more efficiently.

Download the Beginning- and End-of-Course Checklists