If you need access to a block web site in Canvas, contact your regional coordinator and inform them. The coordinator will begin the process. You’ll need a UW Net ID.

If you do not remember your UW Net ID, contact UW-IT at help@uw.edu.

If you do not have a UW Net ID, please contact your site coordinator.

To find and bookmark a course in Canvas

1. Log on at canvas.uw.edu & click the Courses tab at the top of the page.
2. In the Courses tab, click View All or Customize. This will display a list of all your courses.
3. Add a course to your Courses tab by “starring” the course.

Who has access?

• Students who are officially enrolled in your course section.
• Students from other sections, who will have access as Observers.
• Block faculty and directors.
• Regional deans and administrative staff.
• SOM administrative staff.

Who has access to the block web site for a particular region?

After enrollment, students have access to the blocks in their region. Students can also visit the blocks in other regions as observers.

Faculty have editing access in the blocks which they teach. Faculty also can access the other blocks within their region as observers.

Deans and administrative staff have editing access to the blocks in their region.

Canvas Roles for Students

In order for a student to access a Canvas site, the site needs to be published, and the student needs to be enrolled in the block. Instructions for publishing a Canvas site are found in Publishing a Canvas course. Canvas sites should be published two weeks before the course begins.

Students usually receive one of 2 available roles in block web sites:

Student-after enrollment, can see published courses and content, take quizzes and check grades in the gradebook.

Observer-can see published courses and content, does not appear in the gradebook.

• Students who are officially enrolled in a block receive the Student role in their local regional web site.
• Students receive the Observer role in the web sites for other regions.
• Students in the MS3 and MS4 classes receive the Observer role at the end of a block in order to have access to the newest version of the block content.

Canvas Roles for Faculty, Deans and Administrative Staff

Faculty, deans and administrative staff usually receive one of 3 available roles in block web sites:

Teacher-can edit content, see published and unpublished content and courses, and can access grades

Course Designer-can edit content, see published and unpublished content and courses, but cannot access grades

Observer-can see published courses and content

• The directors of a block receive the Teacher role in all regional block web sites.
• Regional block leads and other faculty with grading responsibility receive the Teacher role in their local regional block web site.
• Block faculty who do not have grading responsibility receive the Course Designer role in their local regional block web site.
• Block faculty receive the Observer role in block web sites from other regions.
• All faculty receive the Observer role in their local regional web sites for the blocks they do not teach.
• Regional deans, learning specialists, and administrative staff receive the Teacher role for all blocks in their local region.
• SOM central deans and appropriate administrative staff receive the Teacher role in all Canvas courses at all WWAMI sites.