Fall Training 2026: Empower Your Skills with Supported Technologies

This 30-minute session will explore Canvas from the student perspective, with a focus on the Canvas Student mobile app. We will begin by discussing why the mobile Canvas experience matters, especially as many students regularly use mobile devices to access course content while instructors and instructional designers often focus mainly on the desktop version when designing Canvas courses.

The session will then include a live demonstration of the Canvas Student app, showing how students navigate courses, check announcements, access modules and assignments, view grades, and manage other common course activities. After the demonstration, we will compare the mobile app with the desktop version of Canvas and discuss key differences, strengths, and limitations from the student perspective. The session will conclude with practical considerations for instructors and instructional designers on how to design Canvas courses that work well across both desktop and mobile environments.

At this end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Explain why the mobile Canvas experience is important for students.
• Identify key features of the Canvas Student mobile app.
• Compare the student experience in the Canvas mobile app and desktop version.
• Recognize design considerations that can improve the Canvas experience across both mobile and desktop platforms.

Workshop occurs in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

This is a student focused workshop and students are given enrollment priority.