• Getting Started with Canvas for Educators: This will introduce you to essential information about how to use Canvas in your classes. You can complete it as a course or navigate to content that speaks to your current questions or interests related to Canvas. Choose whichever option works best for you--and remember that you can return to this course anytime.  
• The Canvas Course Readiness Checklist guides you through the steps to prepare a Canvas course for students and shares Canvas Support information.  It covers everything from posting your syllabus, organizing course content, setting up your Gradebook, to publishing your course. Start the term with confidence knowing your course is ready to go!
• Starting two weeks before the term ends, the Canvas Course End of Term Checklist helps you close out your course smoothly. This guide assists you with sending final communications to your students, entering and reviewing grades, submitting final grades to Workday and more.  
• Canvas offers comprehensive guides for both faculty and students. You can access these resources directly within Canvas by selecting the "Help" button located on the Global Navigation menu, then choosing either the Canvas Instructor Guide or the Canvas Student Guide.  

Canvas courses will remain accessible in the Learning Management System (LMS) for two (2) years following the end of the term in which they were taught. After this period, courses older than two years will be archived for an additional two years using a university-managed cloud storage service. Once archived, these courses will no longer be available in the active Canvas LMS.

To restore an archived course to the active Canvas LMS, a formal request must be submitted through the ITS Service Desk at servicedesk@suffolk.edu. Restoration is only available for archived courses up to four years after the initial course term has ended.

At the end of the four-year retention period (derived from including both active and archived storage), archived course files will be permanently deleted to manage cloud storage efficiency and costs.

View the complete retention policy available in Service Now.