At the University of Oregon, there are two Canvas environments:

• Instructional Canvas is exclusively for CRN courses taught at UO. Students must be formally enrolled to access Canvas courses in the Instructional environment.
• Community Canvas is for non-CRN courses and resources. There are various use cases for using a Community site such as:
  • Graduate program Community sites for general program and professional information
  • Club and organization sites
  • Faculty//Staff Canvas trainings
  • Orientations/Workshops
  • Events

Each Canvas at the UO has its own URL and colors. You can quickly tell which instance you are in based on the color of the Global Navigation Menu.

• Instructional Canvas has a green Global Navigation Menu.
  • Access the Instructional Canvas at canvas.uoregon.edu
• Community Canvas has a yellow Global Navigation Menu.
  • Access Community Canvas at community.uoregon.edu 

Instructional Courses: If you are teaching a CRN course, the course site will be automatically created for you. Courses are generally created at the end of week 5 of the previous term.

Community & Development/Sandbox: If you would like a Community Canvas course or a Development/Sandbox course in Instructional Canvas to begin designing a course, contact LMS Admin by completing a Canvas Support Ticket.

In the field “What do you need help with” select Non-CRN Course [1].

In the Type of non-CRN Course [2] field, select either Non-CRN course in the community instance or Development/Sandbox course for CRN preparation. 

Canvas Commons allows you to share and use Canvas content (Courses, Modules, Pages, Assignments) within the UO Canvas Community. Commons is available in both Instructional and Community Canvas and you can choose which to share your content with.

To share content within Instructional or Community only, select All of University of Oregon in the Sharing and License section.

To share content to both Instructional and Community, select Select Consortium(s) and then UO Academic and Community Canvas.