Canvas & Ruby

  • CANVAS

    CANVAS is a web-based learning management system that is designed to support teaching and learning in the 21st century. This platform allows instructors to organize a course online. Canvas includes several features to facilitate online communication between instructors and students.

    Canvas helps instructors organize and present their course content online, enabling them to create digital learning environments for their students in support of in-person, residential remote, and blended course offerings. Canvas provides tools to share a syllabus or expanded course description through the Yale Course Search website, as well as to upload assignments, create quizzes, and much more. Please upload your course syllabus on the canvas site.

  • CANVAS ROLES

    Student (Role) - A learner who is officially registered and enrolled in a Canvas course because they have added the course to their Registration Worksheet during early registration and/or the add / drop period.

    Visitor (Role) - A learner who added a Canvas course to their Canvas Worksheet to experience the course before officially adding the course to their Registration Worksheet during registration or the add/drop period. You are not officially registered for the course.

    Instructors can add students to their Canvas course site with the role of "Guest Student" so the learner avoids losing access to the course site.

    Shortly after the last day of the latest school's add/drop period, all Visitor and Guest Student roles will be removed automatically from Canvas course sites. Auditors will need to be re-added to your CANVAS site as Visitors if they are removed during this period.Instructors can add students to their Canvas course site with the role of "Guest Student" so the learner avoids losing access to the course site.

  • AUDITORS

    Auditing Classes. In order to audit any class at the University, a student needs to secure the instructor’s permission to do so as well as meet any other criteria that the instructor and/or the department (or School outside of the School of Architecture) may require. Generally, auditing a course involves only attending class sessions—faculty members are not expected to grade or evaluate any auditing student’s work. Audited courses taken by a student in the School of Architecture are not recorded on the student’s transcript.