Learning Management System

Canvas, Harvard’s learning management system, enables virtual spaces for team-based assignments.

Canvas, Harvard’s learning management system, enables virtual spaces for team-based assignments.

Canvas, Harvard’s learning management system, enables virtual spaces for team-based assignments.

Contact your local academic support staff for information on getting started with Canvas at your school.

This site will help faculty, staff, and students to learn about the tools and customizations within Canvas that are specific to Harvard.

Canvas 101 is a self-directed training designed to get you up to speed quickly on using Canvas and its robust features for teaching and learning.

Weekly live online trainings for faculty and staff via web conference on topics ranging from setting up a Canvas site and using Canvas communication tools to engage with your students online;

One study suggests that assimilating faculty and students to the most innovative and meaningful applications of a new learning management system is critical to ensure its future success.

Canvas, the new learning management system at Harvard, provides an integrated system for class discussions, allowing both instructors and students to start and contribute to discussion topics.

The Polls for Canvas app is the easy way for instructors to request student opinion in the classroom. All students need is a smartphone. Download the Polls for Canvas app on Android and iOS devices.