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What to know
Modules organize course content.
Organize content by weeks, units, or a different organizational structure.
Each module can contain files, discussions, assignments, quizzes, and other learning materials.
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What to know
Leverage the Harvard Library resources for your students and respect copyright policy. Link to individual Harvard-licensed resources in Canvas modules, pages, assignments, and discussions. It is the safest and best rou...
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What to know
This setting alerts you when a student clicks a link to unpublished content, content with permission errors, or a broken link.
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Click "Account on the global navigation menu and se...
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What to know
Student View lets you experience your course the way that your students do.
You will see only what you, as the instructor, allow your students to see.
Note
Each Canvas course has a separate T...
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Tips: Exam Preparation
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Communicate
We recommend the use of Canvas Announcements to communi...
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What to know
Announcement text from prior courses can be copied to current course and reused.
Links must be realigned to the current course.
Copying Announcements
Updating Links
Note
Images will...
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Last Updated: 07/13/2026
in Producers / Videography
Using the OpenCast Embed Tool in Canvas
Demonstration video for embedding an OpenCast hosted video in a DCE Canvas site
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Canvas Scheduler is part of the calendar and creates appointment groups (collection of individual appointments) that students can sign up for. You may use it to: create office hours schedule TA sessions assign presentation times and host oth...
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What to know
Canvas content creation works similarly across all areas of the site where there is a rich content editor.
Tip: to revert to a previous version of a page, visit our guide on Pages revision .
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What to know
The Default Homepage Layout (shown below) will display on all new CANVAS sites.
Your existing layout will display when course content is copied from a prior CANVAS site.
Choose an alternative layout (opt...