Canvas Corners Articles

Canvas Corner Volume 5: Customizing Your Dashboard

Canvas Corner Volume 5: Customizing Your Dashboard

The Canvas dashboard is highly customizable. Students and Instructors have the ability to select their courses display type, which courses appear on the dashboard, the color overlay of the course thumbnails, and even the course names themselves! Because the dashboard...

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Canvas Corner Volume 3: Creating a Canvas Welcome Page

Canvas Corner Volume 3: Creating a Canvas Welcome Page

Last week, we discussed instructor options for course home pages. The most popular option for a home page is using a welcome page, created using a Canvas Page activity and then setting that Page as a Front Page (discussed in last week's Canvas Corner). Learning how to...

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Canvas Corner Volume 2: Choosing Your Canvas Home Page

Canvas Corner Volume 2: Choosing Your Canvas Home Page

One of the main differences between Canvas and Moodle is that where Moodle places all of your course content on one (often VERY) long page, Canvas allows you to select how students navigate through your course. This may sound a bit complicated, but in practice it is...

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