As announced on July 23, 2025, Canvas will be Drexel University's new Learning Management System (LMS). Canvas is managed by the Office of Information Technology and will be fully integrated with the DrexelOne Portal and the Banner Student Information System (SIS) in the near future. Instructors of Fall Quarter 2025-26 courses and beyond can leverage this new LMS. At some future point, all course sections will be created in Canvas each term such that they are freely available for faculty to activate and use. Enrollment data will be automatically fed in, making this an easy-to-use solution for faculty to engage their students.

Course Management Tools

• Assignments - a secure location for students to submit work
• Content Editor - add and format text, insert equations, hyperlinks, tables, and images
• Discussions - allow members of the class to communicate asynchronously with one another
• Gradebook - centralized area for grading, tracking student progress, and generating reports
• Tests - assess student knowledge and measure progress

Integrated with Canvas

• Ally - automatically generate alternate formats of content and provides feedback to faculty about the accessibility of their course content
• Kaltura/Drexel Streams - streaming media system that allows for integration of videos, with quizzing, into a course
• Respondus - secure the online testing environment and create learning objects
• Turnitin - check students' work for improper citation or potential plagiarism
• VoiceThread - allow users to create presentations, add audio and/or video narration and allow others to comment on them

Access

Access to the system will be available to early adopters through direct signin. Once full integration is in place, Drexel faculty and students will be able to access their Canvas courses directly from DrexelOne. Details about authentication will be available when information has been synced with Banner.

Supported Browsers

The latest versions of all modern browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari) work with Canvas.

There can be differences in the ways that individual browsers behave and render content, so it is recommended to have at least two browsers available in case issues arise. More information about supported browsers is available on the Canvas Community site.

Training

The Instructional Technology Group is building out the training offerings for Canvas, which will be offered every month. You can view our Workshops and Presentations page to see all the latest dates and times once they become available.