Canvas at PSU

Your New Learning Management System

Canvas @ PSU

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Welcome to Canvas!

Canvas has replaced D2L as our teaching and learning platform at Portland State University. You can log in at canvas.pdx.edu.

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Get Canvas Support

OAI has you covered with personal Canvas help for all instructors, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. Submit a Support Ticket, Leave a Voicemail, or schedule a personal Canvas consultation (virtual and in-person available). 


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Teaching in Canvas

Get started or hone your skills with Canvas now by exploring our extensive Canvas tutorials, viewing one of our Canvas workshop recordings or schedule a personal consultation to work with support staff on getting familiar with Canvas.


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The D2L Archive

All D2L for-credit courses with student enrollment dating back to the academic year 2018-19 are stored in an archive maintained by OIT and OAI. The data will be held for three years from the start of Winter term 2022, when PSU switched from D2L to Canvas.

Student Data
Information on student course participation dates and grades must be available for three years to accommodate requests related to incompletes, financial aid applications, transfer credit requests, etc. This data may include: last date of attendance, grades, assignment submissions, and quiz scores if the quiz was associated with a grade item. Discussion participation is difficult to export and should be requested only for specific dates/topics. Comments left with grades will be available if they were left in the Grades feedback area. Instructors may request materials for promotion and tenure needs, provided the request is for specific course materials by title.Note: students must contact the course instructor or program chair to request these materials.

Course Materials
Instructors may request materials for promotion and tenure needs, provided the request is for specific course materials by title. Broadly scoped requests for "all student submissions," etc. are not feasible.

Transferring Old D2L Courses to a New Canvas Shell
Instructors may request to have archived courses transferred to a Canvas shell. These will not include student materials, and the course may not reflect the original design but will include most original course files and materials (some D2L quiz questions libraries and most LTI integrated materials will not be available).