FAQs

Students cannot be added manually to official Canvas courses but must be added through the automatic integration with PAWS. Therefore, students need to make sure they are enrolled in the course in PAWS to be able to gain access to the Canvas course site.

Canvas provides a list of supported browsers.

For Canvas help, instructors can visit the Instructors navigation link on the Canvas login page. The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) provides support for all UWM instructors. In addition, CETL has partnered with many UWM school and college support offices to assist instructors with Canvas.

You may see courses in your Canvas Dashboard titled “Blank – Your Name – #”. These are simply empty courses without enrolled students that you can use to explore the Canvas environment. Master courses are also empty courses without enrolled students that you can use to develop courses in Canvas to later transfer to official course sites. You can request additional Blank or Master course sites by submitting a course site request form.

Some external tools are already available for integration in Canvas. Here is the current list:

• Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
• Cengage MindLinks
• Films-on-Demand
• Kaltura (MyMedia)
• McGraw-Hill Campus
• Norton InQuizitive
• TurningPoint Clickers

In your Canvas course, click on “Instructor Tools” in the main navigation bar to learn more and to request external tools.