Canvas offers many different options for designing your home page, which is the first page students will see when they enter your course.
How to set a Canvas Homepage:
- Log in to Canvas at canvas.brown.edu
- Click Courses in the Global Navigation menu, then select your course.
- By default, courses are set to have Canvas' Syllabus page as the start page.
- To change that setting, click Choose Home Page on the right.
- Select one of the options available in the Choose Home Page menu.
Set the Course’s home page to:- Syllabus to show the syllabus page with the description of the course and a calendar view of assignments, due dates and course events.
- Assignments List to show assignments for the course, with upcoming and recent assignments featured at the top.
- Course Modules to show the modules or sections into which the course is divided.
- Course Activity Stream to show a list of recent changes, updates, and announcements made in the course.
- Pages Front Page to show a page you previously created. You can use text, content, media, and links to create an interactive and instructive page
Note: Canvas will ask you to set a Front Page before you can choose the Pages Front Page option.