Course Structure (Organizing your content)

If you have any course content you want to transfer over, consider moving all those files into your new course. Click here on how to import pre-existing content.
Decide whether the general structure of your course build will be using Modules, Pages, or Files. Read below for a general overview or click on the links to think about each in more detail.

See Modules
See Pages
See Files

See Module Considerations for examples and ways to think about this.
See possible supporting Quality Matters Standards for Course Structure

There are many ways to structure your course: Modules, Pages, Files, or a combination.

Pages

Pages are just places to put information (text, images, links, files, etc.) and Pages can link out to other Pages.

Below is a visual example of the design of a possible Home Page housing lots of information and links out to the Syllabus Page, a Quiz, a Discussion Board, etc. The icons used are the ones you will see if you decide to design with Modules.

Files

Files are the way you organize all course content. Many choose to just put all course materials and documents into file folders and direct students to the Files tab (left-hand side course tools list) to access them. If you show students this Files tab and allow them to view files/folders there, you can "lock down" certain folders and individual files so that they do not have access to everything you've uploaded to your Canvas site.

Modules

Modules are ways to organize groups of activities (content on Pages, Assignments, Discussions, etc.) and have students "walk" through them either randomly or "locked down" by you, meaning that you control what they have to do before they proceed either to the next activity or next module.