Latest revision: 2022-01-24

Background

The students at the different universities mentioned that it was hard to navigate Canvas. Canvas is a system that allows for great liberties to select the buttons that will be visible in the course navigation, but it becomes confusing for the students when one course differs from the next.

Object

The overview below is thought of as a support for all teachers in a program so that the program’s courses gets a similar structure which helps the students. It is a good idea that you take notes on what you’ve agreed on which items in the course navigation should be visible to the students and in what order. Read more on the page Adjust the course navigation on how you change which items will be visible for the students

**Overview items in aplhabetical order**
Item	Functionality
Announcements	see all announcements
Assignments	lists all assignments in their respective assignment group
Chat	gives the opportunity to chat openly with the whole course, the history is visible for everyone (only teachers can erase specific posts)
Collaboration	give the student access to their private Google Drive/Office 365 (the student needs to give their permission in Canvas)
Conferences	connection to the videoconference service BigBlueButton (will be replaced with Microsoft Teams for Meetings)
Discussions	list all discussions
Files	shows all files in alphabetical order or in a folder-structure
Google Drive	give the student access to their private Google Drive (the student needs to give their permission in Canvas)
Grades	teachers can see the gradebook, students can only see the grades for their own assignments/quizzes
Home	go back to the course’s hompage
Modules	shows the module overview
New Analytics	tool for analytics, can only be accessible by teachers
Office 365	give the student access to their private Office 365 (the student needs to give their permission in Canvas)
Outcomes	gives the opportunity to connect learning outcomes with rubrics, in the current situation manual creation of rubrics is needed
Pages	list all pages in alphabetical order
People	students can see everyone in the course and access their groups
Quizzes	list all quizzes, both Classic and New Quizzes
Rubrics	shows the rubrics
Syllabus	can be published publicly