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Canvas Spotlight: Add items to Modules

Develop organized, consistent courses.

By Laura Berryman, Nicholas Ogg and Alex McDaniel

May 4, 2021

Modules are the building blocks of a Canvas course. Modules help organize a course and ensure that students will access all materials in the desired order. A wide variety of items can be added to a Module, including pages, discussions, assignments, quizzes, files, headers and links. Adding different types of items to Modules makes a course more engaging and accommodates learners with diverse preferences.

Best practices

• Use modules to split up the course by week, chapter, topic or theme.
• Begin each module with an Overview page that describes the module and its objectives.
• Add all items that students will interact with to the Module in sequential order.
• Include various types of resources to target diverse learners.
• Use text headers and indentions to break up and organize larger modules.

Let’s walk through it together

For complete written step-by-step instructions, head over to the Center for Teaching, Learning and Design Ready Spotlight page.

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