Iowa State Canvas

Discover the Iowa State University – ISU Canvas a Learning Management System (LMS) and login with your username and password. Students use ISU Canvas to access course content, email, academic calendar, grade, and due dates, collaborating with peers.

Iowa State University (ISU) Canvas

Canvas is the primary learning management system (LMS) at Iowa State University (ISU). It gives you the ability to quickly share course materials and provides easy-to-use tools for communication and collaboration between students, instructors, and teaching assistants.

Here, students to login and access courses, submit assignments and quizzes, as well as allow instructors to communicate with students about course activities and post interesting course-related topics.

This Canvas Quick Guide is for students who want to learn how to use canvas. The purpose of this guide is to help students quickly familiarize themselves with Iowa State University Student Canvas Portal.

How to Access Iowa State Student Canvas Portal

Here’s a simple step to access and login to Iowa State University Canvas

1. Visit ISU Website
2. Navigate to Learning Technologies on the navigation tab
3. Select Canvas at ISU from the drop-down menu
4. Navigate to the right corner
5. Tap on Sign ons

Well done!!! Now find out how to login

How to Login Iowa State Canvas

Let’s get started

1. Access ISU Canvas Portal
2. Enter your Username and Password
3. Tap on the login button

Congratulations!!! Navigate via the ISU dashboard to access courses and schedule classes.

Reset Canvas Forgot Password

Follow these simple steps to reset your password

• To get started, use need help signing button to manage and reset your login credentials.

How to Submit Assignment via Canvas

You can submit online assignments in Canvas using several submission types. Instructors can choose what kind of online submissions they want you to use. You may also have the option to resubmit assignments if your instructor allows it.

1. Access your Canvas Dashboard
2. In Course Navigation, Tap Assignment
3. Tap the name of an assignment to view
4. To submit an assignment, Tap the Start Assignment button
5. Select Submission Type
6. To submit an annotated document, Tap the Student Annotation tab
7. Select the File Upload tap
8. Tap Submit Assignment
9. View Submission

NB: Group assignments do not support the student annotation submission type.

Your instructor will decide what kinds of submissions are appropriate for each Assignment. There are four submission types: upload a file, submit a text entry, enter a website URL, or submit media. You can only select one submission type per submission.

NB: all file types may be available for your Assignment, depending on the assignment submission type set by your instructor.

Contact Iowa State

For assistance,

3024 Morrill Hall

603 Morrill Road

Ames, IA 50011

• 515-294-5357 (phone)