About half of our students use the mobile app. Many students, for example, use the time they sit on the bus to study course material from their phone. Others prefer to work with Tablets over PCs.

This is important to keep in mind when designing your pages. Use pages rather than attached documents.

The fact that your course is probably read on a mobile phone is another reason to upload your material as pages in Canvas rather than attachments. If your material is on a Canvas page, the content is adapted to the screen and text size that the student uses, otherwise they need to zoom in and pan to be able to navigate the document.

The Mobile apps

Always check in the mobile app (Student) what your pages look like. The student app for Canvas can be found at the links below:

Google Play (Android)

App Store (iOS for iPhone / iPad)

Images of a mobil phone displaying the canvas app

Support

If you have any questions any time during the course address them here : Support forum