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The Course Home Page is the first view your students will see when they enter your course.
It's essential to consider the content and desired flow of the student experience.
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When you start constructing your course and planning content, it is crucial to consider the optimal structure for your materials.
Take time to determine the following elements:
- Define the beneficial content that students need in constant
- Choose an efficient digital delivery method
- Provide supplementary materials
- Estimate an access content via a file structure or on a page within Canvas
- Adopt various activities to support the learners' practice and review the concepts
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Create Pages
In Canvas, pages offer a platform where you can integrate content, videos, images, and links to external websites and files. Pages are advantageous in providing students with contextual information and explanations about the shared resources instead of depending solely on the item-by-item format of Modules. Pages function most effectively when used with Modules or connected to other course sections, such as the Syllabus or Homepage.
Pages Suited for
Pages Not Suited for
- Activities requiring submissions or response
- Activities you want to grade in Canvas
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How do I create a new page in a course?
How do I add a page to the student To-Do list as an instructor?
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Add and Organize Content
Canvas has a global navigation menu is located on the left side of every page. Global Navigation links provide quick access to the Courses. Once the instructor discovers the course sites and is familiar with the Manage Dashboard, the instructor can add relevant content and organize materials to improve the student learning experience.
Regardless of different design methodologies, create course materials generally involves the following ways:
- Upload course materials or multimedia files
- Create content with the Rich Content Editor
- Import or duplicate course content
- Integrate an external application or LTI tools like Box, Google, or zoom.
Upload Materials
Instructors can drag and drop files from a computer into a course.
File Sizes
- Canvas does not support file uploads larger than 5 GB.
- Video and audio uploads to Canvas through the media tool can be up to 500 MB in size.
To Add a File:
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Method 1:
- In the Course Navigation, click the Files link
- Click the Upload button.
- Find the file you want to upload and click the Open button
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Method 2:
- In the Courses Navigation, choose the Pages, click the Insert.
- Choose the file type between Link, Image, Media or Document.
- Find the file you want to upload and click the Submit button.
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Add a file via Drag and Drop
Some web browsers allow you to add files by simply dragging and dropping the files from a file window directly into the Canvas file repository. Or you can choose a file and click submit or open.
Create Content
The Rich Content Editor (RCE) in Canvas functions similarly to a website or word processing editor, providing the capability to add, modify, or incorporate content into Canvas. The RCE can be used in various features such as Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Pages, Quizzes, or Syllabus.
Features of the RCE encompass the ability to format text and paragraphs, insert links, images, media, and documents, open external tools (such as Google, Kaltura, Vimeo, or YouTube), add tables, equations, or embed media.
To access the RCE, follow these steps:
- Choose a course from your Dashboard.
- Click on a feature from the Course Navigation menu on the page's left side, such as Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Pages, Quizzes, or Syllabus.
- Locate and click the + or Edit button at the page's top right corner to launch the RCE.
Import Content
You can duplicate course materials like assignments, modules, pages, and discussions from other Canvas courses to current courses.
- From your Dashboard, select the course to which you will copy content.
- In the Course Navigation menu, click on Settings.
- On the right side of the screen, click on the Import Course Content link.
- From the Content Type drop-down list, select Copy a Canvas Course.
- Type the course title in the Search for a course field, and select the course from the automatic list that will appear.
- Select whether you would like to copy the course with All content or Select specific content to copy.
- Note that you also have the option to Adjust events and Due dates.
- Click the Import button.
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Student View Mode
Student View features allow you to observe a course from the same perspective as your students. Activate Student View generated a test student account in your course. Also, the Student view can be activated in your Course Settings.
Student View Mode provides documents and videos to guide you through the setup.
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Publish Course
Faculty must publish a course for it to be visible to students.
Before publishing course materials, complete the CMC_Checklists to verify course settings and privacy considerations.
Publish Course provides documents and videos to guide you through setup.
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