Choosing a Course Home Page

Overview

The Home Page is the first thing your students see when they go to your course site. You can set your Home Page to one of five options: the Recent Activity Dashboard, Pages Front Page,  course Modules, the Assignment List, or the Syllabus.

For detailed instructions, see How do I change the Course Home Page? Links to an external site. and How do I set a Front Page in a course? Links to an external site.

 

Video Overview

Video of setting homepage in Canvas

 

Best Practices

  •  Create your own course landing page using the Pages tool then setting that page to your course homepage.
  • Use the course syllabus as a landing page
  • Use the course schedule as a landing page by creating it in the pages tool and setting it to homepage.

 

Additional Resources