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What You Need to Know
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Introduction
Instructors can use Canvas Modules to structure their course and organize content and activities. Think of the course as a filing system, where the course shell is the file cabinet. Inside the filing cabinet are manila folders. Modules are the manila folders of a Canvas course. The are ready to keep thematically like materials, readings, activities, and assignments together as a unit.
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Canvas provides flexible options for how to build your course. Modules allow you to organize course content and direct the flow of your course. Modules can be set up to require students to complete materials in a sequential fashion (e.g., Week 1, Week 2, Week 3), and each module can contain files, assignments, assessments, discussions, and other learning materials. In adding content to your modules, please be sure to use the right headings in your course content for accessibility.
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You can determine what tools are or are not available in your course, what page displays as the homepage when students first log in, and how that page looks.
You might consider organizing course material
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based on:
specific units or themes
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number of weeks in the course
specific sequence of course assignments
Making Content Available to Students
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Around the calendar portion of your syllabus. The Syllabus tool allows you display all course assignments and events, with undated assignments appearing at the bottom. If most of your course materials contain dates, organizing your course around the Syllabus tool may be most best choice for you.
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Around course assignments. This option is great if your course is very project or task-oriented and can be accomplished using the Assignments tool. The Assignments tool includes all assessments: quizzes, graded discussions and online submissions (i.e., files, text, URLs, images, etc.). You can manage all assessments within Assignments.
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What You Need to Know
Would you like students to be required to complete one module before the next module becomes available? This is easy in Canvas and it's called "conditionals," meaning one condition must be met before the next piece is made available. Conditionals can be applied to any instructional material or assignment organized in the Modules tool.
You might use this functionality to move students through a specific sequence of information. You might also use this functionality to prevent students from opening the next module before obtaining a specific quiz score.
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After adding content to the modules, you can set
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up prerequisites that manage what modules must be completed before another is opened. You can then set your requirements for each module. Requirements include what content within the module must be completed in order for the module to be considered complete.
Note that prerequisites and requirements only manage availability of modules and the content within those modules.
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Visit the Canvas Guides at: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/tkb-p/Instructor#Modules
Learn How to Create A Module
This brief video will show you how to create a module and insert content into a page within the module.
You will also learn about Module release settings.
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