In Short

Princeton University's has two Canvas environments: Princeton University and Princeton Connect. The two environments have separate purposes, user authentication systems, and settings.

Princeton University is our main instance and houses all course offerings and degree-related course sites for Princeton students.

Princeton Connect is our secondary instance and houses our outreach initiatives and community offerings. The participants in a Princeton Connect site might include people from our other universities or institutions.

Princeton University (Primary)
Princeton Connect (Secondary)

Princeton University (Primary)

Used for all instructional credit bearing courses (term and non-term based) and resources or activities that support a student’s degree completion.
Sub-accounts correspond to academic departments and centers.
Course creation and enrollment data is integrated with the Student Information System (PeopleSoft)
Princeton users must authenticate through CAS.
Allows flexible enrollment options for manually created (non-SIS) courses.

Princeton Connect (Secondary)

Used for academic enrichment, training and orientation, research and projects, and community outreach.
Sites in Connect are non-credit bearing and not part of a student's academic record.
Princeton users must authenticate through CAS via the Princeton University instance.
Flexible options for enrolling users into course sites.
Non-Princeton users can register and authenticate local accounts to access Princeton Connect courses.

Access to Princeton Connect

When users log in to the Princeton University instructional instance, they should see all the Princeton Connect courses they're enrolled in.

Most non-Princeton users will have access only to the Connect instance unless they need access to a site in the Princeton University instance. For example, community auditors, guest instructors, etc.

Non-Princeton users participating in a Registrar-based course (i.e. Community Auditor, Guest Instructor, etc.) will access their courses through the Princeton University instance. All other non-Princeton users will access their courses through the Princeton Connect instance.

To Request a Princeton Connect Site

Please use the Canvas Site Request Form to request a Canvas site for administering educational enrichment, training, orientation, research, and community outreach programs.

All credit-bearing course sites are provisioned through the Office of the Registrar (PeopleSoft). These course sites do not need to be requested.