Chapter 2: Building Your Canvas Course

This chapter will cover the foundations of building your Canvas course by creating the content your students will interact with during your course. We will start by discussing some of the important ideas to keep in mind when planning your course and conceptualizing how you will use Canvas for your unique situation. After this, we will learn how to import content from another course on Canvas or from another Learning Management System (LMS).

Next, we will work through how to add assignments and content to your course, specifically focusing on how to use the Rich Content Editor. We will then learn how to create discussions and quizzes within Canvas, and we will cover how to create assignment groups for weighted assignments.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Planning how you will use Canvas to deliver your course activities and content
• Importing content from another Canvas course or another LMS
• Creating assignments...