Tags & Pills

Tags and pills are subtle elements that allow you to provide context or additional information about your content. They help users know what to expect from the content.

Ways you can use tags and pills in Canvas…

• Provide an estimated reading time so that students can plan for how long it will take them to read the content.
• Provide content warnings through tags.
• Add topics covered in tags.
• Indicate which course-level or module-level objectives an assignments is designed to address.
• Add a footnote citation.

Notes

• Pills are only available with two parts. Use tags instead of pills whenever you have 1 part or more than 2 parts.
• You can include multiple tags and they will appear next to each other in a row as long as you place them next to each other in the content. Pills, on the other hand, will always take up their own line.
• Use red tags for items you want to stand out, such as content warnings. Use gray tags for items you want to be more subtle, such as footnotes.
• Feel free to mix and match tags and pills as you see fit.