Canvas LMS For Dummies

Chapter 9

Grazing through a Forest of Modules

IN THIS CHAPTER

Creating and organizing content within modules

Moving content around and between modules

Using prerequisites to pace student learning

Adding badges to gamify your course

Educators are many things, and the one thing most of us are, either naturally or out of necessity, is organized. Therefore, if you are an organizational freak (if you were the only kid in fourth grade who asked for a label maker for Christmas, for example), this is going to be your favorite stop on our journey through the Canvas forest. Or for those of you who are currently reading this book while sitting behind a desk riddled with hundreds of sticky notes, you at least aspire to be organized! Either way, you’re in the right place.

As a new Panda learning Canvas LMS, modules provide that structure you need to make your teaching and learning organized, manageable, and self-contained. And they mimic organizational strategies we are already accustomed to implementing in our personal and professional lives. You have folders in your Google Drive. Those folders ...