Canvas for students

Log on to Canvas

Use your UiO username and password. Two-factor authentication is required.

We recommend that you use Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Recommended browsers for Canvas (canvaslms.com).

Guides

New students

• Canvas course for students (uio.instructure.com)
• Canvas guides for students (canvaslms.com)
• How to change language in Canvas

Problems

• Why is it not working?

Privacy

• Profile pictures in Canvas

Access

• How long do I have access to my Canvas rooms?

• Access to Canvas when you're no longer a student at UiO

Accessibility

• Accessibility in Canvas: screen readers, keyboard navigation and recommendations (canvaslms.com)
• Accessibility tool "Ally" provides assistance to employees to improve the accessibility of their content in Canvas, and provides students with alternative formats of content in Canvas
• Microsoft Immersive Reader: a useful tool for the visually impaired and for people with reading challenges such as dyslexia
• Dyslexia-friendly font (canvaslms.com): when this is enabled the Canvas interface displays OpenDyslexic font to make content more easily readable for users with dyslexia
• High contrast user interface (UI) (canvaslms.com): when this is enabled it improves the color contrast for text, buttons, etc. in Canvas

Recommendations

You might take some courses that use Canvas and other courses that don't. We have some tips for you:

• Schedule: You get a personal course schedule in Mine studier (My studies) (minestudier.no), not i Canvas.
• Messages: Messages from your study programme and course webpages on uio.no and in Canvas are sent to you in Mine studier (My Studies) (minestudier.no). You get notifications and messages from Canvas in the My Studies mobile app.
• Set your notification preferences in Canvas (canvaslms.com)

Mobile app

We recommend that you primarily use canvas.uio.no on a laptop or desktop PC to keep track of your courses throughout the semester. You can also download the mobile app for Canvas, which will let you access your courses on the go.

The mobile version has somewhat limited functionality compared to the browser version of Canvas, but is useful for keeping up to date with notifications and announcements when you are away from your computer. 

Use the mobile app without internet

Offline mode makes it possible for you to syncronize the course content in your mobile app and study even when you don't have internet access. See this guide from Instructure for more information.

User guides for mobile apps:

• Canvas Student App for iOS (canvaslms.com)
• Canvas Student App for Android (canvaslms.com)

Questions about Canvas?

Contact your faculty