Student Services

Canvas Information for Students

Learn Canvas

New to Canvas? We think you'll pick it up very quickly and easily due to its intuitive, familiar user interface. The videos below should help you understand the various student-related areas of Canvas.

Visit Canvas

The Canvas system can be found at www.niagara.edu/canvas and you can log in using your PurplePass account.

Important Information for Windows 10 Users using Canvas with the Edge browser

Some Windows 10 users have reported issues submitting assignments on Canvas, and in working with Canvas, we have identified a known issue that I'd like to make you aware of.

Submissions not processing can be attributed to intermittent issues with Canvas and Microsoft's SmartScreen Filter. This will intermittently affect submissions as it will block some back-end processes that are necessary to submit an assignment. 

On August 2 2016, Microsoft released Windows 10 "Anniversary Update" (Build 14393), which—purportedly—fixes the issue of SmartScreen interfering with file upload submissions in Edge or IE 11. However, this update is being rolled out slowly so if you do not currently have that available, you can download the update at the following site: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

This update can take some time to install, so if students are needing to submit an assignment right away, they can alleviate this by utilizing a different web-browser (e.g. Chrome or Firefox) and the submission should process as per usual.