Managing and Organizing Your Course
After creating and publishing your course, and may wish to organize to your course by Pages or Modules. Read more about these topics below:
1. Make announcements
By default, announcements are sent to students' email associated with their Canvas account. Students can add multiple email addresses to their Canvas account if they wish to receive notifications in multiple locations.
Tip! Clicking Save actually sends announcements. If you're still drafting it, delay posting Announcements to go out at a future time to continue working on it.
2. Start Discussions
Canvas Discussions allows students to post ideas and work for all to see and comment on. Topics can be graded if you'd like to grade student participation. Third-party discussion tools like Harmonize and Ed Discussion can be enabled if desired.
3. Create Assignments
The five types of Assignments are Assignments (readings, reply to a prompt, or upload), Discussion, Quizzes, External tool, or Not Graded.
4. Get to know your grading options
Use SpeedGrader (Use Chrome browser) to grade assignments and quizzes and give feedback online, even audio or video feedback. You can manually enter and edit grades in the Gradebook. Third party tool Gradescope is also an option if you have handwritten homework or exams. You may even calculate final grades in Canvas.
5. Create Quizzes
Quizzes and surveys can have a multitude of question types and test options. Surveys can be anonymous or not.
6. Organize with Pages and Modules
Pages and Modules both let you create and combine content with links to Files, Assignments, Quizzes, Discussions, and external links. Here's a Module about Modules, and a Page about combining Files and Pages and an article about the ideal use of each for organizing content.
7. Foster collaboration with Groups
Create Groups (in the People tool) that students can self-join. Unlike a section, a group has special capabilities such as the ability to maintain a subsection of your course site or submit an assignment as a group.
Next Steps: End-of-Quarter tips
Still need help?
Visit the Instructors section of this site to learn about additional resources or Contact the Stanford Canvas Team.