Installing Canvas

Trying Out Canvas

If you'd like to use Canvas in your own course, or you just want try out Canvas, there is no need to do all the work of installing it yourself. Canvas Cloud is free for teachers to use. Sign up to get started.

If at a later time you do want to migrate from your own installation to Canvas Cloud, or vice versa, you can use the course export and import features to migrate all of your content.

Please note that the English Quick Start page was translated from the original Chinese version. No translation software is perfect, so there are some issues.

Installation Guides

English

• Quick Start
• Production Start

中文 (Chinese)

• Quick Start(中文版)
• Production Start(中文版)

Installation Help

• Troubleshooting your Canvas installation
• Upgrading your Canvas installation
• Integrating Canvas with other systems
• Custom Settings

Developing on Canvas and Contributing

Our Canvas Dev & Friends site is a great resource for getting started in developing on Canvas itself, using the Canvas APIs, or creating well-integrated 3rd party tools.

See Contributing to Canvas for more information about contributing.