Canvas Checklists
Getting Started with a Canvas site shares all the ways to explore, develop, build, import, export, and publish a course.Start of the Semester Checklist provides a sequential order to edit, setup and publish. Additionally, we want to share the six of the most common Canvas questions we receive each semester. Take a look at:
- How do I find my Course Site?
- How do I import my content into a new course? (and decide if you will only import specific content?
- I am teaching multiple sections and want to merge Canvas sites?
- Can I update all the due dates and availability date at once?
- How do I move a Module Item?
- Can I publish or unpublish individual pages and assignments?
Start of the Semester Events
Canvas Clinic (Monday, January Noon to 3 p.m.)
Get personalized help setting up your Canvas courses for the spring 2026 semester from the comfort of your own home. Sign up for the virtual Canvas Clinic. ;
Canvas Essentials
Canvas Essentials is an asynchronous micro course where participants read and watch information on how to quickly create a Canvas course site.
Digital Accessibility series
Join ATSS and the Office for Digital Accessibility (ODA) for these 1-hour workshops to learn how to make your course content accessible:
- January 14 at 10 a.m. Create an Accessible Syllabus Using the 7 Core Skills of Accessibility
- January 5 at 1 p.m. Explore Digital Accessibility Tools: UDOIT scan, RCE Checker, and Grackle Docs
AI in Teaching series
Join Teaching Support for these 1-hour webinars to explore the landscape of AI tools at the University and how to best respond to them in your teaching:
- Crafting Your AI Syllabus Statement: Choose Your Own Adventure!
- AI-Resilient Assessments with FeedbackFruits
- Designing AI-Aware Assignments
- GenAI in Your Spring Teaching
Accessibility in Mind
Here are six practices, activities, and tools that can improve the accessibility and clarity of your course content
- Join the 10-week Digital Accessibility Challenge; participants who complete the challenge will receive 1000 Wellbeing Points.
- Explore the Remove Strategy. You can prepare your course for a new semester by assessing and removing outdated, unused course materials. Why fix what doesn’t need to be fixed?
- Selectively import Canvas content when you start a semester! Remember you can be more selective when you import Canvas content.
- Use Canvas Accessibility Checker which is built into the Canvas Rich Content Editor. It detects common accessibility errors within the editor
- Use UDOIT (pronounced, "You do it") in Canvas to scan a course for accessibility issues. The tool creates a customized report that identifies possible accessibility issues and provides suggestions on how to update the content.
- Request information and support at a departmental meeting by emailing the UMD Academic Digital Accessibility Liaisons at [email protected].
Academic Technology Support Options
There are so many ways that you can get answers or share ideas about Canvas, Kaltura, accessibility, course design, and more. You can:
- stop in at our Spring 2026 Academic Technology Drop-in Sessions
- schedule a 30 min meeting with our Academic Technology Appointments
- partner with instructional designer with our Course Design Consultation
You can also open a ticket with the UMD or UMN Help Desk; its one of the easiest ways to get help.
- UMD Help Desk: [email protected] or (218) 726-8847
- UMN Technology Help: [email protected] or (612) 301-4357