Course Home Page Template
Below is a course home page template that you can use for your Canvas courses. With all page templates, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the individual design elements used in the template. For example, this template uses the following:
- Whole Page Styles
- Section Headings
- Buttons
- Lists
- Emphasis Boxes
- Responsive Video Embed
- Columns
- Icons
Feel free to be creative with how you use this template! For example, swap out the welcome video for a thematic image or change the Instructor Contact Information section to provide other important course details.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ADAPTING THIS TEMPLATE
If you want to save this template to your Canvas account, we can share it with you so that it appears under Account > Shared Content. This will give you quick and easy access to add it to any course. Just fill out this quick form Links to an external site. and we will send it to your Canvas account as soon as possible.
Setting a page as your home page in Canvas can be a bit unintuitive. First, you will need to set a published page as your Front Page Links to an external site., then you will need to set that Front Page as your Course Home Page Links to an external site..
- Select the entire contents of the Codepen embed.
- Copy using Ctrl+C (PC), Cmd+C (Mac), or right-click > Copy.
- Go to your Canvas front page and open the Rich Content Editor by selecting the Edit button in the top-right corner.
- Toggle to the HTML Editor by clicking the </> icon in the bottom-right corner.
- Paste using Ctrl+V (PC), Cmd+V (Mac), or right-click > Paste.
- Toggle back to the Visual Editor by clicking the </> icon in the bottom-right corner.
- Edit the content.
- Delete the instructor note section.
- If you want to change the icons used with the headings, toggle back to the HTML Editor. Open the Find bar and search for <i class=. This will locate the Font Awesome icons, and you can replace these icons with your preferred icons.
- That’s it! Feel free to experiment with the template and add other elements, such as buttons or images.
WELCOME TO [INSERT COURSE NAME]
Your First Steps
- Watch the welcome video embedded right here.
- Review the course syllabus.
- Watch the course tour video.
- Introduce yourself in the discussion board.
- Post any questions you have about the course to the Q&A discussion board.
- Take the Syllabus Quiz.
Welcome Video
Including a welcome video helps you connect with students. Watch Sarah Ackermann speak on this topic below!
NOTE FOR INSTRUCTORS
After the beginning of the course, consider swapping the section above for something more timely, such as information about the current module. This is also a great place to put buttons for key course links, such as your syllabus.
ABOUT THIS COURSE
Course Description
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Course Objectives
On successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Apply critical and creative thinking skills when solving business problems.
- Participate in work teams as a member and a leader.
- Follow generally accepted standards of professional behavior.
- Integrate international, intercultural, and environmental issues.
- Understand the importance of respect for human liberty and diversity in business communication.
- Compose business correspondence (e.g., email, letter, memo, and webcast) based on reader/audience analysis using word processing software and other proper media.
- Analyze, compose and prepare business reports in written and/or oral formats using word processing and presentation software.