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Starting Monday, December 1, 2025, logging in to UC Davis Canvas will look a bit different for students, faculty and staff. Instructure, the vendor providing our Canvas learning management system, is making updates to the login experience.

Access to UC Davis Canvas will not be impacted, and your login process, username, and password will not change.
 

Starting Monday, December 1, 2025: 

Starting this summer, you’ll see greater use of Duo multi-factor authentication at UC Davis. And as use grows, the damage caused by phishing will shrink.

Duo is a security app. It works by asking you for two “factors” when you sign in to an account protected by Duo: your usual password, plus a temporary code created by Duo, typically sent via the Duo app to your smartphone. (There are alternatives if you can’t use a smartphone—more below.)