CANVAS IS MOVING TO CLOUD PLATFORM
Canvas is getting an upgrade. Starting in Spring 2026, all SFU courses will run on Canvas Cloud, a vendor-hosted platform located in Canada. Learn how to set up or migrate your courses by visiting Canvas moving to Cloud Platform.
Instructor Guide on Canvas Cloud
The complete Canvas Cloud Instructor Guide can be accessed from the Instructors and Staff: Get Help with Canvas link from the Canvas Cloud Global Navigation’s Help submenu.
You can also access it directly: Canvas Cloud Instructor Guide
For your convenience, we have listed some of the most relevant and SFU specific information below:
What's New?
- Using speedgrader
- Using the comments library in speedgrader
- Making video comments in speedgrader
- Adding discussion checkpoints
- Creating a quiz (New Quizzes)
- Creating and editing different quiz types (New Quizzes)
- Regrading a quiz (New Quizzes)
- Adding extra time to a quiz (New Quizzes)
- Differences between a Classic Quiz and a New Quiz
- Converting a Classic Quiz into a New Quiz
- Using enhanced rubrics
- Using self assessment rubrics
- Using New Analytics
Looking for what's new with Canvas Cloud? See Canvas differences between On-premise and Cloud.
Getting started
Organizing content
- Adding a syllabus
- Adding a module
- Adding course content as module items
- Moving or reordering module items
- Adding multimedia
- Organizing course files
- Importing library tutorials (currently unavailable)
- Importing your course from a past semester
- Accessing past courses/removing a course from a dashboard
- Hiding tools on navigation menu in a course