Canvas is the default Learning Management System (LMS) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Students: please review your student assignments (projects, papers) in Blackboard and download the material you want to save/have access to. Access to Blackboard will end on May 15, 2018. Instructions for downloading your student content is available via the Student Guide and here.
Faculty: Canvas is the default LMS at UNL, the Spring 2018 semester is the final semester for access to Blackboard. All courses must be migrated from Blackboard to Canvas by May 15, 2018. Instructions for downloading Blackboard content is available via the Faculty Guide. If you need assistance with migrating or downloading your Blackboard course(s), please contact the LMS team at canvas@unl.edu Instructions are available at: https://its.unl.edu/services/canvas/end-blackboard-checklist
"Ask Us About Canvas" sessions will once again be offered in the Nebraska Unions, Love Learning Commons or Henzlik Hub. Session times and locations are at Canvas Calendar.
These sessions will be held on Thursday afternoons from 12-1pm or 2-4 pm. If these times do not work with your schedule, please contact canvas@unl.edu and we will schedule a time to meet with you.
Canvas will be down for maintenance from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m on February 1, 2017. This outage is a result of a postponment of a previously announced outage on January 9.
Canvas will be down for maintenance from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m on January 9, 2017. For more information, click here.
All courses for Spring 2017 are now available to teachers in Canvas.
Faculty: If you do not have access to a course that you are teaching, please contact your department and make sure they have informed Registration and Records that you are the Instructor of Record for that course. Once that is done, you will automatically be given Instructor access to your course. Canvas courses will be visible to students when teachers select "Publish."
Students: Be sure you ask you teacher which LMS you'll be using this semester. If you do not have access to a course that you are taking, it is possible that your instructor has the course set to unpublished while they are getting ready for Spring semester. Please contact your instructor.