Welcome to CE Canvas Docs

CE Canvas is a community engagement management platform built around the IAP2 framework and the order of operations that makes genuine community influence possible. These docs cover the core workflows for organisation admins and project teams — what to do, why it matters, and what tends to go wrong when a step is skipped.

Start here

• Engagement Sequence Overview — the map. Why order of operations matters and how CE Canvas is built around the 10-step sequence
• Getting Started — log in, invite your team, and create your first project
• Roles and Permissions — understand organisation and project access levels
• Single Sign-On — connect your identity provider (for IT teams)

The project journey

Every project follows the same journey in the sidebar — Planning, Delivery, Results, Reporting, Close & Learn. Tasks sits above the journey as a persistent nav item, always available rather than a step you pass through. The journey is orientation, not a gate: you can move between stops at any time.

• Engagement Planning — the Planning hub: Context → Canvas → Plan, in build order
• Project Context — classify the project, capture the decision space, and ground everything that follows
• Engagement Canvas — the one-page engagement strategy, drafted with EVA’s help
• Engagement Plan — the generated formal plan document, when the project needs one
• Engagement Playbooks — apply a workflow template to generate phases, tasks, and methods
• Delivery Plan — turn the Canvas into who does what, when
• Tasks — manage the operational work across Board, List, and Timeframe views
• Results — bring community input in, analyse it, and check coverage
• Reporting — compile outcomes reports that demonstrate community influence
• Close & Learn — evaluate effectiveness and honour your feedback commitments

Team and settings

• Project Team Members — add people to a project and assign work
• Project Settings — project details, status, and identity
• Organisation Settings — organisation profile, users, authentication, and workspace configuration

Reference

• Responsible Use of AI — how EVA works, where human judgement applies, and how your data is handled