Introduction: Hey, everybody! We're live again with one of my favorites. We're here with Kat, flipping with the coolest last name of all Canvas users. Me, your last name, and we'll decide! Kat is one of our Canvas admins based out in Georgia. She is filled right now, as you can imagine, with teaching teachers how to set up their courses for really effective distance learning.

So today, Kat is going to talk to us a little bit about modules—how to set them up and how to make sure that you're using them so that you can be most effective. And with that, Kat, I’m handing it over. Good luck; have fun!

Kat: Thank you! I appreciate that. So, I am working at Jackson County Schools, and I’ll get this over here so you can see that screen. We are a half-rural, half-suburban school district—half Title One, if that makes sense to any of y'all. We have about 8,300—almost 400—kids, and we are on distance learning right now. We started on Monday. Thankfully, we had a little bit of technology paranoia about two weeks ago, and we were able to make a plan pretty quickly.

But we've been using Canvas for about three and a half years, and we are a system of no mandates. So, it's been a journey trying to get people into using Canvas. It's nice to have such a robust LMS. I’ve managed almost all the other LMSs in my career, and I have to say, y’all, Canvas is pretty awesome. I'm not much for, you know, drinking the Kool-Aid, but this is pretty awesome, and I'm excited to be talking about modules.

What you see right now on my screen, for example, is what you would see if you created a new course or if the course was rostered to you and you logged in for your first time. This is what you see.

What are Modules? This tends to be very confusing for most teachers. They don't really know where to start and what to do. There’s just nothing there other than uploading a template, which can still be very confusing, or getting a blueprint of some sort. I mean, this is a blank canvas—hence the name Canvas! So helping people understand what you see here and how to start is very empowering because, as most of you know, modules are something that is easy to organize, easy to play with, and you can manage basically everything from this one location.

So when you first have your blank course—and for those of you who are super advanced, I’ve got something for you coming up too, so don’t worry!—but starting here: I just made myself a new Canvas course, and I have a fake student in there with some new student data shared. But I’m going to say, as a new teacher, where do I start? Well, it’s pretty easy. If I have a map or if I have some idea of some lessons I want to do or something I want to share—even if it’s a website—I want to put this on here. I’m just going to organize it.

So adding things is pretty clear in Canvas. When I go and actually add a module, I can create new modules or add existing content, but I’m going to start from scratch here. I can just click this nice button. This is your temporary home screen before you even publish your course. You have modules right there in front of you. Canvas does that, I feel, on purpose because it's a great way to start building your course, right?

So clicking and adding a module—this is everybody's favorite part. You see on my stuff I’ve used before: What do you want to name it? It doesn’t matter. The beautiful thing is, nothing is permanent here; you can go and change it to whatever. So, you know, for distance learning, I’m going to go ahead and say I’m going to call this “Distance Learning Week 1.” We’ll come back to this locker until later. Let’s go ahead and add that module.

Alright, and then from there, we can add another one. You know what? I’m going to go ahead and think, “Well, we also have next week off,” right? So let’s add a distance learning module. If you think I’ll need a prerequisite—not now, folks! For those of you who know where that is, there are fans of Badger. You know what that is.

So here I am with “Distance Learning Week 1” and “Distance Learning Week 2.” Nothing’s published yet; technically, I’m still on my homepage, and we’ll go from here.

Alright, so I want to add stuff. Again, the beautiful thing about Canvas—and I keep on preaching to everybody—is it’s super easy. It has a great user interface to figure out how to add things and how to get rid of stuff. Over here on the right, you see this circle with a slash. That means it’s not published. That means that if the course was published, nobody but other co-teachers could see your “quote/unquote instructional mess” as you build things. It can be a little messy, but you can show people that it's published or unpublished at your own will.

The plus sign is where we’re about to go. We can add things from there, and this thing—Hot Dog—is called the hot dog, by the way. Three dots of hot dog! Clicking on that, you’re able to move things, and you can also share things, duplicate— the duplicate feature is wonderful—and delete. So if you just hate everything you’ve done, you can delete it.

So, I’m going to go ahead and click the plus sign because this is where people start. After I initially start with modules, people get a little confused. So let’s click this, and you see a number of things. Alright, so adding items to a module essentially is chunking a course, right? So I’m going to go back, click, click. If I have Week 1 and Week 2, those are separate little chunks, and I can do Unit 1, Unit 2, Chapter 1, Chapter 2. I was a former Spanish teacher, teaching high school Spanish for nine years, so I had like “Tim” and “Tonal Bay” and clicking issues. However, I naturally structured my course, and modules are great for student structure. They just want to be able to find stuff, right?

So clicking “Add” here, I see all this. It’s a little confusing. Alright, so ignore this right here. Start at the peer where it says “Add Blank” to “Distance Learning Week 1.” Click that drop-down, and this gives you all the options that are available in Canvas: what you can add for assignments, for quizzes, and also external tools and URLs. One benefit of Canvas when it comes to external tools is you keep everything in one tab.

So when we get down there, I’ll show you what I mean in a second. So we have an assignment. Let’s go ahead and add an assignment, and you see that this pops up. If I switch to the quiz, it would give you options here. If I switched it to a file, it would give you all the files in your course. Now, granted, your kids can’t necessarily see that, but it will publish it for you in a module.

So you see how it will change down here the selections that are available per item. So I’m going to start first with an assignment. What’s really cool and still kind of confusing for people is you have to understand that this is where you can actually create a new assignment in situ. I often encourage new teachers—and even veteran teachers—why do you go to the assignments tab over here on the left or quizzes or pages or anything here? It’s easier just to go in here and think about the structure of the course and create new stuff here. You can just create right here without having to go to assignments or pages or any other separate section in your course.

But I already have some stuff created, so I’m going to go ahead and pick one of those. So let’s do—actually, no! What I’m going to create is a new one because these are going to be for later. So a new assignment, let’s call this “Welcome to the Pandemic.”

Or not! Humor is a nice invention we’re going to talk about when it comes to design. For those of you who are more advanced users, you’ll understand when I say design is 85 percent of the problem. I always say that! Hashtag design matters.

So I have some really cool tips and tricks when it comes to that in a little bit. So I’m going to add that item, and look how magical this is! It’s just there! The item is there; I don’t have to do anything else. Well, I have to go and put the detail of the assignment in, but it creates the assignments over here for me; it already populates! So I can go into here, and then I can fill out all the details. It already gives me the title, and I can fill out, let’s see how many points, etc. So forth. It’s not published, but I’ll come back to that in a little bit.

Alright, I’m going to go back to home because right now it’s still my homepage as my modules, right? I’m going to modules if I’d like. So there’s just a—oh, look at that! I don’t know why I did that, but guess what? This is very fortuitous.

So looking at “Distance Learning Week 1” versus “2,” one should be on top. Well, this little double stack right here—I have a lot of hot dog and hamburger terms—I’m going to move this. It’s drag and drop! How wonderful to have a drag-and-drop interface. The same exists within the modules itself.

So I’ve added an assignment, so let’s go add some more stuff because this is when it gets really addictive and fun, right? Alright, so if I have an assignment with some good structure to a unit plan or a week plan, clearly adding a quiz would be wonderful, right? These are the old quizzes, by the way! If you know what classic quizzes versus new quizzes is, just keep that in mind.

Nothing! So edit this right now; you get the idea. It’s for another session from today, but if I want to go ahead and quiz, look, I don’t have any previously made, so all I have to do is click “New Quiz.”

Alright, so I’m going to call this, um, let’s see—“What Do You Know About COVID-19?” I’m going to have a nice little lesson or two about the virus going around. Don’t worry about it, really! This is all for people who are more advanced at grouping things in assignments. That doesn’t matter, or you can look at attention later and click the item. It creates it for you; it keeps you right there in modules. I love this for new people and for people who are developing courses; it just keeps everything centralized, right?

Alright, I’m going to try to have the chat open in this window to you guys so I can see what you’re saying. Some people are saying, “You know, I love the drag-and-drop content.” Oh, I agree with you! Definitely! I organize my modules by week. Oh, that’s a great idea because I think definitely for advanced content. We have some 80 classes, for example, things that are much more a week-by-week basis.

So being in a K-12 environment, I also think of units and chapters. I love that too! So the tech has no age. So what we’ve done in our district is we actually have a one-page worksheet we put together. It’s a handout we physically give to teachers, and they’re able to fill out a unit plan. So when they go in, they build their modules for the first time, it’s so easy to start putting it together and get things together, and you start seeing that lightbulb moment, right?

Alright, let’s see. Level two is adding files. What I consider a Teacher 2.0, students advanced, and I like to build a module template. They ask this. What I was talking about—that module template—it’s nice to have everything in paper, right?

Alright, so let’s keep on adding stuff. I’m telling y’all, when you start figuring all this out, it gets to be so much fun, right?

Alright, so files! So you know we’re a Google for Education district, but you know those people—and you know who you are—who love your PDFs and you love your PowerPoints, right? This is for you! So if I had a file that I wanted to share in my course, I could go ahead and put this here. So all the files are right here. I could add a new file, which would prompt me to upload stuff if I wanted to.

But just because I’m already out of this and I’m a huge fan of Aaron Copland, I want to look at this. I also added a netiquette and essential agreement. Don’t worry about titles. Look how easy this is, guys! Add the item. I’m going to go ahead and go to another one. Look! Add my Aaron Copland Hoedown! By the way, I didn’t just teach Spanish; I also taught music tech and music history, so I’m a big music person.

So you see how these were automatically published? I’ve already set it up as files over here just for the purposes of this webinar. But they’re already available! So if they’re already available, they’ll publish. But guess what? Do your kids see that? This is still new because the entire module is still unpublished, so they still won’t see the mess that matters, y’all!

Alright, so “Distance Learning Week 1,” we’ve got some files, we’ve got some music, because why not? Let’s see what else we can do! Alright, so we can add pages. Pages are entirely underrated, and somebody else can talk about that at some point, but it’s static content. Stuff you can put together! Pages are also really hard to keep track of. I love building pages in modules because I really don’t have to think about a live right.

If I have, say, 200 pages of stuff, it’s so much easier to see it here, right? Alright, so pages—I can create a new one, and I can also add one I already made, one about distance learning. So let’s just click that and add the item. You know, it’s still adding it for me. I don’t have to go into all these different things. If you didn’t do it this way, you would have come over here to assignments to create your assignments, quizzes to create your quizzes, pages to do that, files to upload—adding discussion boards! Stuff like—forget that! If I’m a busy teacher, lord, there’s no way I can do that!

Modules for the win, y’all! Alright, so add the plus sign. Let’s see what else we got. Ooh, discussion boards! Don’t have to go to discussions to make your discussion boards! I love this! I’m going to create a new one called this: “Water Cooler—Tell Me About Your Week.” Add that! I don’t have to fill in the details now. I can go back and click on all this later to fill in points for the assignment, make the quiz, come back, and actually fill in the details.

All this is about structuring your content first before you really build it out. I’m going to add a text header. We’ll come back to that a little bit. Love my text headers! External URL—so you know how sometimes kids have 50,000 tabs open? Here’s your answer to that! Most web pages will actually embed inside Canvas.

So I’m going to add our district website: saxonschoolsga.org. I’ll call this our JC Schools website. Alright! You do have the option to load it into a new tab, but in this case, I’m just going to let it be. So when we go through this as a student, you can see exactly what I’m talking about.

So I’m going to add that item, and then kind of the coup d'état, right? This is—you think that it’s awesome now? It’s about to get even awesomer! The last piece there, and this is for people—and you know your new users, your new teachers, are probably not going to understand external tools.

So if y’all are professional learning developers and structural technology people like myself—digital learning people—I would save this for another section. And somebody’s asking, “Looking to potentially integrate custom software into Canvas, who do I talk to about integrating external tools?” Oh my gosh, Laura, you know I have a Twitter chat tomorrow about integrating tools in the Canvas panel at Eastern Time, so you can join me then!

So I’m going to integrate external tools, guys. This is stuff that’s integrated into Canvas already—stuff you’ve added to your course or you’ve added to your admin’s top level.

So again, I’m not going to stroke that right now, but something else can handle that. So look, y’all, I have—for example—oh, there’s Google Drive, My Course Kit, I can do maps, Khan Academy, Quizlet, all kinds of stuff! Ted Ed, I think I’m going to do EdPuzzle.

Now here’s what’s new about external tools: it will pop up a little pop-up. You’re already connected. I’m going to put that—let’s see if it actually won’t play. Alright, I’m not going to watch it right now, but I’m going to assign it. Hats off to EdPuzzle, and just like that, guys, it pops me back into Canvas!

So external tools will pop you out of Canvas for a second and then pop you back in. So when are y’all going to be able to export group lists from Canvas? I’m not sure; y’all are asking some hard questions!

Alright, so go down here. I don’t feel anything else I can change the page name if I want to. I think I will! I’m going to call this a “Distance Learning Introduction.” They don’t even know it’s EdPuzzle!

And click “Add!” Alright, so there’s a whole one week of things that I can publish for your course to build out.

Okay, and what I want to show you is from the student perspective what this looks like. Now, just as a side note, I think one of the biggest mistakes that everybody forgets to do is publish your course. So don’t forget to publish your course!

Because I’m here, for example, right, and refresh here so you can see this is a student count. Do you see how that went away? It’s unpublished right now, so I’m going to go and publish my course and my modules is my front page.

I've actually told teachers, especially if you are new, they like—they want that pretty front page. They want something that's decorated and gorgeous. Y'all, you don't need that right away. Focus on building your content first and what you need to get out. Okay, I'm not going to publish this for a second, and let's go and take a look at my fake student account. Alright, so there it is: a new Canvas course. Isn't that nice? By the way, to be able to publish it and—publish!—and boom, it's there! And boom, it's not. Okay, so you see how no modules have been defined for this course? Isn't that wonderful? So I don't see anything because it's not published. This is both a good and bad thing, y'all. It's good for those of us who understand it and really have a hang of it. It's bad for people who are still new to this. Since we're literally dropping everything nationwide and trying to distance learn, I've already answered a bunch of questions.

So our biggest questions are: why can't students see my course? Or why can't students see my assignments or my modules? This is why—you forget to publish! So I'm gonna click publish that whole module and look! Isn't that nice? It automatically publishes the whole thing. Publishing your course for me. Come back here and refresh, and like magic, y'all, it took all two seconds. Oh my goodness! So I don't have to push it out. I don't have to wait for really a propagation across a domain—none of that stuff. It's here!

So here is the fun part: distance learning week one is ready. I'm a student, I'm gonna go in order. Why not? That's how we designed it, right? So the fun part: welcome to the pandemic! There's no content right now; I have to build out the assignment. If there was an assignment there, then it would say, you know, "Turn this in and submit." Look at this next button—I can just follow it along, right? So what do you know about "Follow Along" in 19? The quiz that would pop open in the separate little area, but we're going to skip that. Let's see next.

Oh! Keep everything in one tab! Look at this—here's keeping everything in one tab. If it wasn't for Twitter or StreamYard, notice I haven't opened up a link. I haven't downloaded a link. Everything is in one tab. Okay? And here's the PDF—I can download it if I want to. But here's a great how-to communicate online. Next, right? Oh, Aaron Copland! We'll how to communicate online. See, I started playing—so good to note that it will automatically start playing, but that's built-in music, guys. How wonderful is that? If you're a podcaster, or if you're somebody who wants to just talk to your kids—if you do a screencast, you can upload your Screencastify into here, right?

Alright, and then here's my page I made about distance learning. It's not beautifully formatted, so all your pages are just like that. You can have a whole page of content. Moving on to next! Alright, here is the discussion board. I'm still amazed! Listen, this just follows each other beautifully, right? And here is the embedded website. How nice is it that you don't have to just have a link and it pops open a new tab? Pops open a new tab? It won't do that. It's naturally embedded into Canvas. There are some websites that won't do that—they have the option to open that into a new tab.

And then finally, let's EdPuzzle integration. See? Oh, there's the EdPuzzle integration! This is the beautiful part about Canvas and building modules—it was added as a module. So you should delete it to an assignment. Okay, so I have that. Go and actually add an assignment inside EdPuzzle first, but you get the idea. You naturally embed things into this, so it's not something over here. You keep the kids in one spot. What I could do? I could just have Home and Modules and hide all the rest of this. The kids actually don't hide modules; they need to have this open. So if I was a kid, I could go to assignments. Nearly all epitomize limits—you don't have to do that. Keep modules open! We like to keep it as simple as possible for kids, right?

Alright, so going back over here, let's talk about some design tips. Because if you are somebody who has a bunch of modules, you can keep on doing this. You can keep on publishing and unpublishing stuff. That gets to be a little daunting, right? So what I recommend are two things: one, you've got to leverage the embedding and the text headers. You've got to! I think Canvas didn't put them there for no reason.

So let's go back to add and let's look at that text header. Alright, so maybe I want to call this, you know, "Monday's Assignments." Not gonna dent right now. And add that—it adds it always at the bottom. If you have gigantic modules, this can be a little bit of a pain. So just be aware—you'll be scrolling up and down a little bit. But I'm going to use that drag-and-drop feature and then push this all the way up here. And then I'm gonna add one and call this "Tuesday's Assignment."

Alright, I'm gonna add that up here and I'm gonna figure out—alright, so Monday and Tuesday. Monday, I want them to do "Welcome to the Pandemic," "What Do You Know About COVID-19," and the "Netiquette." Okay? Tuesday's assignments, I want to put that about distance learning, the watercooler, and Aaron Copland. And then I'm gonna add one for the remainder of the week, alright? So it gives you a nice text header so people can see in order.

Let's take a look at that in the student view. It's really important to be able to see this, so it breaks it up. I myself am not always satisfied with that; like, I need to have some sort of delineation. And it's nice that Canvas does this. Do you see these little icons right here? Super duper helpful, right?

So what I want to do now is come over to "Welcome to the Pandemic." I'm gonna click this—the hot dog! Do you see it? It automatically has increased indent. It scooches it over just a little bit to the right. So now let's go here. Refresh! Refresh! Let's see how much better that looks. Oh, nice! And then—nice!

So again, if you're a bit—let's say if I did like "Monday's Assignments," "Tuesday's Assignments"—things get a little big, right? Look at this—pretty daunting! So I love to use something called Copy/Paste Character. Alright, so here's my little tip: Copy/Paste Character. It's actually a website: copypastecharacter.com, and it gives you essentially emojis. And I like to put those in front of some of my text headers and also some of my assignments—the colored ones in particular.

So I'm going to, let's see, I'm gonna pick something interesting. Let's see—oh, you should be able to go and search. I'm gonna go cute! There we go—search! Let's do a star! Alright, no searches. Let's do all characters—in perfect! And I want us to scroll down. I'm gonna find something that kind of sticks out. Ooh, let's do a lightning! Oh no, here we go—time-sensitive! Right, let's do a little clock! I'm gonna go over to my Canvas course, hot dog! Edit in front of "Monday's Assignments." I'm going to paste that clock and update.

So you can actually color code some of these things as well, and you can put this in front of these titles too. So while you have these icons, but if something's super important or something's like time-sensitive, it's nice to be able to do this. So I would take this, for example—there's also one that's an alarm I like to use—and I would put it in front of the one that's most pertinent. You can change this day by day.

So I'm going to go ahead and increase those indents like that. Alright, and then you see how beautiful that can be! Alright, refresh character! So refresh, and now this is what it looks like if you're a student. So you see that it's copy-paste—just nice to have some point in this, some color. And it can be something arbitrary too, so I'm gonna find a copy/paste character that has a ton of those. I put this in front of Docs—it's actually how I organized Drive and my Google Drive. I like the SIS too, because it's bright and noticeable.

Alright, if I'm in "Tuesday's Assignments," just something a little different. Now, one more thing I’d use with Copy/Paste Character: let’s say that you do, like, deeply, like deeply, deeply build things out. So if I do, for example, another text header and I want to call this "Quiz for Monday," I'm gonna give you an example of one thing that is a little troublesome.

Is how you—how we set the scroll down. I'm gonna go back up to "Quiz for Monday." Alright, and put that there. Let's put the Netiquette one there, but then I want to indent that. Indent! And then indent that one more! It might be a little hard to see; I'll show you what I mean—the indenting piece. It's great for building stuff out, but you can't partition up a module, so it can get very, very large. You see how large this is?

So using something for "Quiz" bumped out right here or indicating something's bumped out might be very helpful. So I'll use Copy/Paste model for that and find an arrow. This is the one I use more often. I'll copy that one, and this helps delineate things that are extra and indented so kids can really see it a little better.

Okay, let’s take a peek and see—there we go! So it was just easier to find those extra text outline text headers that are built in. The allness is essentially a—what would you call it? Like an outline, right? It's just the outline of assignments.

And then the final piece before I go to your comments and questions, guys, is you have done all this amazing work! It's your first time doing this, and then you look down here like, "Oh crap! Since 2008, I've built this all!" Oh my gosh, what am I gonna do? Well, go to the hot dog at the top. Oh! Oh, you can't duplicate modules? Do that because you have a quiz. Okay, so yes, you cannot duplicate modules if you have a quiz.

So if I didn't have my quiz—so let's actually remove that and see if that will go through. Then, ah! There we go! So now I can duplicate it! So Canvas, if you’re listening, which I think you are, if you could fix that feature, that'd be great! So I'm gonna go ahead and duplicate the entire module, and that way it actually duplicates all the assignments.

So look at this! So you see us as copy, copy, copy, copy, but it doesn't publish it. So you have some time to clean it up, but it copies everything for you and your formatting. So having a standard module format, and then you can just use that over and over again, is very helpful.

So let's go and let's take a peek at some of your questions. Alright, let’s see—Cat, I would use this to organize my Google. Oh my gosh, it has copy/paste characters and the kids love it, y’all! Even older kids, even adult learners! So, you know, I work with—I teach a lot of teachers—that visual cue makes all the difference sometimes, right?

Is there a homepage way to have your homepage be a page? Yes, there is! So, and that's why we don't usually start that way. It can get a little confusing to kind of start that way, so I try not to let the homepage be a page initially. A bit of candy! Let’s see, I'm trying to scroll and not go back and forth so much between screens. I actually wanna stop sharing my screen temporarily so you see my face.

Alright, so nice! Dig the emoji, y’all! The emoji thing—you think it's kind of arbitrary, but it's not! Kids really, really do love being able to have visual cues. And if you make something standard, you know, maybe one for Monday, or if it's really like the one that a lot—hourglass for me, or the alarm, but when I use more often, then that becomes kind of your standard notification to kids.

Know, hey, I really, really need to do this, right? Sometimes visual cues are exactly what the kids need. Let’s see. God, you always have so many great comments! I love organizing! Clean, y’all! Design matters sometimes! Especially—design matters, though! It's very daunting for people coming in here at first. Once you start building those modules, it’s wonderful! You can definitely have a lot of stuff in modules. I would say that once you reach a certain scroll limit, like if you end up scrolling two modules' worth of stuff in one module, I would start breaking it up.

So that's why I'm—whoever this person talked about doing it by week, right? If you end up having a lot of content in one module, you might want to consider other ways of organizing those modules. Because if you're overwhelmed, guess who else is overwhelmed? Your students, right? So you don't want them to get lost either!

Organizing modules: see, I do love to use text headers with a knitting different content. It really is! I really wish there was a way to color-code modules, but my way around that was using copy/paste characters. So being able to have that was very, very helpful to kind of work around that.

And let’s see—oh yes, EdPuzzle! So I'm a big fan of integrations. I'll be talking about just the benefits there else and some of the different types tomorrow at 6 PM Eastern Time. Lord, came Mountain time, I believe! Green checkmark show? Yes, yes! Let’s talk about that too! So if we have green checkmarks, a little bit of time here, so I think we do.

I'll re-share my screen. For those of y’all who want a little two-minute kind of quick curiosity check, coming back to your distance learning week here—publishing all that. You can actually set up for episodes and actually time stuff. So with Time Distance Learning, for example, you know you want your kids to work at their own pace. But I'm that kind of student—I was that student! I would jump all the heck around here! Like, I would not go in order! So I'd start with, like, the website. You're like, "Ooh, this sounds interesting!" Go here. I don't want that necessarily, right?

So clicking on the hot dog right at the title of the module, lock—I can click Edit! And this is where I can do some funky things. I can do a lock until. That gives the ability where the students can see the stuff, but they can't touch it. So you know that question when kids come into class, or they might send you now via text: "What are we doing today?" But we didn't today. This helps make to negate that totally.

Alright, you can also add requirements! So I could say, "Alright, students must complete all the requirements." That requirement is they must move through the requirements in sequential order! Yes! For those kids who jump around, I got you covered! So I'll do that, and then what I want to say is students must complete one of these requirements.

So now you can actually make it—in order to move on to something else or get credit for completing the whole module—okay, you have to mark this. I'm gonna click this! It actually allows you all the stuff, but if you want to do one thing at a time, you can say, "Welcome to the Pandemic! Mark as done!" Let’s do "Submit the Assignment." I'm at requirement here. Let’s do Aaron Copland, view the item!

I'm gonna say water-cooler, contribute to the page! Let’s do distance learning introduction, so view the item. They can't—they can't figure out with external tools that you have to submit! But that way, the kids, guys, cannot complete the module, but I haven't done all those things. So I'm gonna go here, complete all the requirements. I'm gonna make everything view Penn, and I'll show you what that looks like here in the student view, and then I'll let y'all go!

Alright, so let’s do continue. Let's go back to the student view really quick and refresh. Alright, and you're gonna see all of you see what popped up! Complete all items! And look! Help power! This is, y'all, help power! This is where it gives you, as the instructor, power over what your kids are doing without being Big Brother! We don't have time! At one point, as a high school teacher, I had 120 students! I can't even imagine right now distance learning with 120 students!

So this helps if you take the time to set this up. So as a student, I can't do—I submission can't do anything! I can't put my anything until I do this. And it's only you, but you can say submit the assignment! You can also say they have to score 100 on the assignment before they can go on!

Alright, going back to Home here, see? You see the checkmark? It's in progress! So I can keep through, and it'll checkmark, keep on making me go through each item until I have all checkmarks. And then what you can do for your other modules is set it up as prerequisites. So coming back here, I could say, "Alright, so they've done Distance Learning Week One." That's way too many things! My module, if our, for them to do Distance Learning Week Two, I want them—I have to add the prerequisite! Prerequisite of finishing—they have to finish that entire module before they can go to Week Two!

That gives you the power! If you just take an hour or two, build out all your stuff like this, right? And then share it with your kids, one, they can't work ahead; they work at the pace you want! It gives you the time to keep on planning. You don't have to obsess about all these kids, you know, doing all this work. It just really empowers you as an educator. And empowering? It's worth it! And this is a great way to start with Canvas, as a going from a blank canvas to something else that’s not so daunting.

But modules are very empowering, in my personal opinion! So let’s see what else people are saying. How did you—setting up for different grade levels? Set up for different grade levels? Quick question! So I do K-12, right? We actually—so we can—we use modules still in elementary, but we actually emphasize for K5 in particular a front page.

So you can set up as a homepage, a front page, and then we add buttons just so it's more interactive for the kids! But we still organized with modules! The buttons will go to specific modules! You can link in Canvas to certain modules! Makes it so much easier! I believe this workshop will be available for viewing later! Am I right? Yeah, no! Well, we have a website on instructure.com that you can access all this information. We'll send a link out! Awesome!

Alela! Teresa said, for setting up for multiple sections classes, where I have multiple sections, we make all of our modules in a master course and copy it to each section and make sure the small changes needed! You know? And if you do stuff like copy/paste character, or you're putting emojis in there, or you have the indented structure that follows, if you copy modules from course to course, that structure will follow course to course!

So you can be that person that sets it up for people and says, "Hey! You know, now they have a direct share feature!" Super—or a direct copy! Super easy to share just the specific module of people! How do you outro copy a module to other sections? Other sections? As in like what I showed you with—you know, to duplicate a module? But if you're going from course to course, I would go onto the Canvas community, and I would direct share, and direct copy! A new feature where you can just really easily share stuff to your courses or other people, and that would be your answer for that!

You guys, thank y’all so much! Oh yeah! Oh, this is so much questions! No! Thank you, pup! Yeah! You can also set the syllabus with course summary as your homepage!

And is there a way to have your homepage be—yes! We already addressed those! So yeah, I think that's most the big questions. If I haven't addressed any of them, guys, you can keep on—I’ll go back and look through! But Mark, is there anything else that we need to discuss? I think this is the big stuff! Again, big thanks to Cat! She's gonna be hosting our Canvas Twitter chat tomorrow! Hashtag Canvas chat right here!

This is my office area, a little bit! 6:00 PM Eastern tomorrow! We’ll also have a couple of these live streams tomorrow—one at noon Eastern and another one at 3:00 Eastern! So if there’s specific topics you want us to cover, shoot us a note and we’ll make it happen! Thanks everybody! Cat, thanks again! Welcome!