Create Pages in Canvas

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Christine Sandella
Last updated: May 01, 2024
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Not all course materials or educational content fit neatly into assignments, discussions, quizzes, or files. Canvas Pages offers a versatile space to put these kinds of materials. Pages can be a way to deliver information and content to students, create a front page to welcome students to your course, and even allow classes to work collaboratively.

Why use Canvas Pages?

  • Create and share information with students that may not fit anywhere else in Canvas.

  • Pull in and present course content such as news/journal articles, files, and multimedia from various sources.

  • Use the collaborative features to get student contributions for things such as a class wiki.

Canvas Pages Examples

Below are examples of how instructors can use Canvas Pages:

  • Embed video content from sites like the Media Library, Vimeo, and YouTube into your Canvas course for student viewing.

  • Articulate student learning objectives for a course module. 

  • Aggregate a series of URLs and other resources housed in other areas of Canvas course for easy reference for a major assignment. 

  • Create a custom course homepage.

Create Pages in Canvas

  1. In the course navigation menu, click Pages.

    1. Pages is designed to open to the front page for the course, if there is a front page selected. To select a page from the Pages index, click View All Pages.

       

  2. Click the Add Page button.

     

  3. Enter a name for your page. Then, add links, files, images and other content using the Rich Content Editor. The rich content editor includes a word count display below the bottom right corner of the text box.

Edit Page Settings

  • Users allowed to edit this page: Options include only teachers, teachers and students, or anyone. The Anyone option only applies to users who are enrolled in the course.

  • Add to student to-do: You can add the page to the student to-do list. When you add a page to the student to-do, the to-do displays in the student's to-do list as well as in the course calendar and the course sidebar To Do list.

  • Publish At: You can schedule when a page will be published by entering a date and time in this field. Your page must be unpublished to schedule a publication date.

  • Notify users that this content has changed: Clicking this checkbox will notify users that content has changed. Note: If a user’s course content notification is turned off, they will not be notified of page updates.

Save and Publish Pages

If you are ready to publish your page, click Save & Publish. If you want to create a draft of your page, click Save. Note: A pop-up warning will appear if you try to navigate away from a page without saving.

When your page is saved in a draft state, you can return to the page and publish it at any time by clicking Publish. Once published, the button will change from gray to green. 

View Scheduled Page Publication 

When your page is saved for scheduled publication, you can return to the page and manage the publication status by clicking the Will publish on… button. You can choose to publish the page, unpublish the page, or schedule the page for publication. Then, click the OK button.

Additional Resources 

Navigation/Administration 

Creating/Editing/Deleting 

Linking/Embedding