Your course homepage is the first thing your students see when they arrive at your course in Canvas. Let's explore how to easily make an attractive and welcoming Canvas course homepage.

The most essential goals for a home page are:

to welcome learners,
to engage them in the course
to direct them to what they can do next.

Here are the element you can use in a course

Welcome to this course
Important dates
Assignment (Link to each assignment)
Zoom meetings
Navigate
Quick nativgations (Link to important content like syllabus)
Course teachers
Start the course

There is no one fits all solution it all depend of the course and your students but here are some tips to consider.

Keep it clean and simple
Have a friendly tone in you language
The students are going to open this page a lot. Consider have a quick navigation to your modules.
A picture make it easy for students to recognise your course and make it look appealing
Its good to have you contact information directly on your home page

Exercise: Analys a Canvas rooms home page

To do:

Choose a course, your own, a college or a course from Canvas Commons.
Analys its home page (whats good and what could be better?)
Make a suggestion for change
Take a screenshot of the course module structure and upload it in this discussion forum, write down your suggestions for change
Look at each others screenshots and discuss the different suggestions for change

This exercise is for practice only (not graded)

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