Estimated Time: 90 minutes

Now that you have a grasp of the most essential elements of how Canvas functions, we're ready to have you dig in and start practicing the skills you need to edit and/or create course content! Whether you are inheriting a fully-built course from someone else, or you're building a course from the ground up, understanding how to make and edit Pages and Assignments and effectively organize them into Modules are helpful skills to master.

For the rest of the course, I will periodically recommend that you practice the skills I present. To do this, you can utilize your Sandbox. In addition to being enrolled in this course, you will also have a Sandbox course with your name on it. For example, Jane Doe Sandbox. You might see it on your Dashboard (remember, you can get there from the Global Navigation menu to the left) or you might find it in your Courses list (also in the Global Navigation menu).

Competency: Prepare Canvas courses using basic construction principles

Learning Objectives:

Create a learning guide page to introduce a unit of learning
Prepare a graded assignment and submit a document using the Test Student
Produce a module with requirements
Create a course home page
Upload a syllabus to the course
Make a quiz
Organize quiz questions into a bank

A picture of Andrew with the words "Helpful Tip" below him. It would get pretty annoying to have to keep navigating between your Sandbox course and this training course. Did you know that you can have multiple Canvas windows open at once? If you right-click a hyperlink or navigation icon and select 'Open link in new tab', the destination you clicked on will open in a new tab at the top of your browser window. That way you can just click between tabs as you move between this course and your sandbox. We've also recorded a quick demonstration video ({{Video Placeholder}} if you'd like to see this in action. Give it a try!