Canvas- Content - Try It!

Canvas Content and Organization - Try It!

Now that you have learned a bit about organization, modules and pages, feel free to use the list below to get started with the tools.

As a reminder:

Modules allow you to set up an organizational scheme for the content, activities, and assessments that best serves your students.

• Each Module can contain:
  
  • Chronologically organized material
  • Links to Pages and other course items such as discussions, assessments, external URLs,  and files.

Pages are the best way to make content available to your students in WorldClassRoom.

Pages can contain:

• Text
• Images, videos, and audio files
• Links to files, articles, and presentations
• Links to external web pages 

Instructions

This is optional, but if you would like to put practice into play, use your sandbox to try using the tools. If you have access to your live course, you can work in there instead. The links below go to Canvas Guides.

1. Add a Module (Links to an external site.) to your sandbox.  You might call it something like Week 1, Lecture Notes, etc.
   • Publish the Module (Links to an external site.) so that students can see it.
2. Add a Page to the module (Links to an external site.) and publish it.
3. Edit the page (Links to an external site.) and add some accessible content, including:
   
   • An embedded image (Links to an external site.) (with alt text (Links to an external site.))
   • Hyperlinked text to an internal page (Links to an external site.) or an external URL (Links to an external site.)
   • One or more headings (Links to an external site.)
   • An embedded video (Links to an external site.)
   • Run the accessibility checker (Links to an external site.) to check for any accessibility issues that need to be fixed.
4. Add a file to one of your modules (Links to an external site.) and make sure it is published.
5. Edit your course homepage to provide a roadmap for students.