lab-services-within-canvas-overview.md

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Overview of Labs within Canvas | Microsoft Docs	Learn how to use Lab Services within Canvas.	how-to	01/22/2022

Overview of Lab Services within Canvas

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Azure Lab Services now provides an integrated experience for using labs with the Canvas. Canvas LMS is a cloud-based learning management system that provides one place for course content, quizzes, and grades for both educators and students. Educators can create labs from within Canvas and students will see their lab VMs alongside their other material for a course.

Benefits

Integration with Canvas LMS includes the following key capabilities:

• Labs are created and managed inside a course in Canvas.
• Each lab automatically pulls and updates the list of students based on the latest course roster.
• Virtual machines are added and deleted automatically based on changes to the course roster.
• Students access their labs directly inside a course in Canvas.

Next steps

See the following articles:

• Get started and create a Lab Services lab within Canvas
• Manage lab user lists within Canvas
• Manage lab's VM pool within Canvas
• Create and manage lab schedules within Canvas
• Access a VM within Canvas – Student view