Summary
In this chapter, we completed the construction of your course and prepared it to be published. We began by exploring the various types of home page layouts available to you based on your needs, including the Course Activity Stream, the Pages Front Page layout, the Course Modules layout, the Assignment List layout, and the Syllabus layout. Next, we learned how to reorganize the appearance of your course by selecting which navigation links your students will see on the left Course Navigation Menu.
After that, we learned about the calendar feature as well as the Student View option to preview your course. We then learned about adding participants to the course and discussed the various roles participants can fulfill within your course: students, teachers, TAs, designers, and observers. We discussed managing participants and creating groups, then we ended with how to publish your course.
In Chapter 4, Teaching Your Canvas Course, we will explore the features of Canvas you...