Wiki Page, Welcome to Canvas 101: Creating Modules and Adding Items

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2016-04-25T09:32:42-06:00

Tips

Course content can be added to multiple modules or iterated several times throughout an individual module.

I've created and shared a Student Orientation Module that you can easily import into your course to add tutorials and activities to show your students how to use Canvas. Just search for "Garton" in the Commons.

If in a module you want to add a link to a Youtube video that students can view during the school day, see these directions.

If you add the share link from a Google doc to a module, when students click the link in the module it will display the Google doc nested in a page in your Canvas course. (Don't set it to load in a new tab.)

Guides

Modules Guides

Adding a Video Stored in Google Drive to a Module

Modules

Modules are used to organize course content by weeks, units, or a different organizational structure that works for your course. Modules are a way to display your content to students. It's is not where your content is stored.

Each module can contain files, discussions, assignments, quizzes, and other learning materials that you would like to use. You can easily add items to your module that you have already created in the course, or create new content shells within the modules. Modules can be easily organized using the drag and drop feature. Elements within the modules can also be reorganized by dragging and dropping.

Recommendations

For your student's benefit, create a standardized consistent module structure that includes consistent object naming. Use the indent and text header features to make it easier for your students to locate items.

Provide an introductory page to each modules that includes: learning targets, big ideas, essential questions, and vocabulary.

Create a Teacher's notes page for each module in which you can make notes or add reminders for yourself about the module. Leave this page unpublished so that your students can not access it.

Set Completion Criteria
Instructors can set completion criteria within a module so students can see the requirements needed to complete a module. By setting completion criteria, instructors can also follow the progress of each student. This can be helpful in assessing where students are in your course progression: who hasn't started a module, who is in the middle, who has completed, etc.

Control Access to Content By Date

Instructors can lock modules by date. This can be helpful in preventing students from accessing content ahead of time.

Control Access to Content by Pre-Requisites

Instructors can set pre-requisites to modules so students have to complete a previous module prior to progressing to the next module. There are times you may want students to complete a quiz or submit an assignment before moving on to a new module or content area.

Control Access to Content by Order

Instructors can require students to progress through the required items in sequential order. Please note that checking the "Students must move through requirements..." checkbox without adding any requirements will do nothing.

Control Access Using the the Publish Button

You can use the publish button for individual learning objects in a module to hide and show them to students. You can not unpublish an assignment that that has been graded. You also use the publish button for a module to hide or show it to students.

However, if you have an unpublished module with published learning objects the students can't see the content in the module via the Modules Index Page. To ensure that students don't access the published learning object via one of the other index pages (Discussions, Pages, Quizzes) in the course navigation, you need to edit the navigation and remove those index pages from the students' view. Also know that a published learning object in the unpublished module will appear in the gradebook and students can access it that way. If a student is using the Canvas app on a mobile device they will have access to all the index pages, even if you've editing the navigation.

Video Tutorials