Canvas is the learning management system used at Brown. It can be used to house course materials, support instructor-student and student-student interaction and feedback, and to grade work.

Options for effective use of Canvas include

• Publish your syllabus
• Create modules, to construct pathways through your course
• Peer review
• Embedding low-stakes quizzes to encourage student reading and ongoing preparation
• Using rubrics to quickly grade papers
• Collect analytics, and develop a mastery-based assessment system