Planning your course – from syllabus to screen
As you think about how to build and organize your Canvas course, there are a number of topics to consider that will impact the way you will use Canvas to manage your course content. The following questions and prompts will help you determine the approaches you might consider while building your course.
What kind of course am I teaching?
- A traditional, in-person course
- A fully online course with most or all of the activities to be completed asynchronously
- A live course with online expectations (for example, assignment submissions, discussion board postings, video assignments, and peer reviews)
- A hybrid course with a combination of in-person, synchronous remote students, and/or asynchronous remote students
What do I need to do to get the course content into a format that is suitable for Canvas?
- The course is brand new. I have not taught the course before in any format, so I need to find and sequence...