Design Your Canvas Course
This page is designed to help you build a new Canvas course using best practices so that the result is sound both technologically and pedagogically.
Design Your Canvas Course
This page is designed to help you build a new Canvas course using best practices so that the result is sound both technologically and pedagogically.
Whether you're creating a course online or for a traditional classroom, the principles of integrated course design will help you build a coherent learning experience for your students.
Whether you are teaching an in-person course or teaching an online course synchronously or asynchronously, here are some things to consider as you’re designing your Canvas course:
The Office of Digital Education has created two course shell templates to help you start building your online/hybrid course in Canvas. These templates are based on Quality Matters course design standards which promote best practices for designing and structuring online courses.
Here are the resources to help you build your course in Canvas:
These templates provide a minimum course shell with just the essentials for creating a Canvas Course. You can download and save this file to a folder on your computer. IMPORTANT: You do NOT have to open the downloaded file on your computer. Instead, follow this procedure:
For more detailed step-by-step instructions with illustrations, follow these "How do I import a Canvas Course Export Package?" instructions (link to an external site) to import this file into your Canvas course.
General Education Program: In addition to the resources listed above, there is a Canvas Course Template designed specifically for GenEd courses available here.
For more information on the Quality Matters standards, see this QM rubric.