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  • Canvas
    • Access Canvas
    • Import Content into Your Canvas Course
    • Upload Your Syllabus
    • Share Your Syllabus
    • Review the Course-Launch Checklist
    • Publish Your Canvas Course
    • Understanding Your Canvas Courses Menu
  • Get Started In Canvas
    • Basic Computer Specifications for Canvas
    • Canvas-Supported Browsers
    • Customize User Display Settings
    • Customize Your Notifications
    • Your Canvas Dashboard
    • Customize "My Courses"
    • Get Started With The Calendar
    • Canvas on a Mobile Device
    • Link Canvas Courses
  • Design Your Course
    • Options To Organize Content
    • Set Up A Homepage
    • Import Content Into Your Canvas Course
      • Remove announcements when copying a Canvas site
      • Adjusting dates when copying a Canvas site
    • Recommended Course-level Settings
    • Modify Your Course Menu
    • Get Started with the Rich Content Editor
    • Get Started With Modules
    • Get Started With Pages
    • Get Started With Files
    • Student View
    • Share Your Syllabus
    • Library Content
    • Add Media In Canvas
    • Canvas Commons
  • Assignments and Grades
    • Get Started With Assignments
    • Get Started with Quizzes
      • Building a Quiz and Grading a Quiz
      • Quiz Options for Supporting Academic Integrity and Accommodating Individual Student Needs
      • Get Started with LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor
    • Introducing New Quizzes
      • Migrating Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes
      • Building a New Quiz
      • Accessibility & Accommodations in New Quizzes
      • New Quizzes Support for Academic Integrity
      • Grading New Quizzes
    • Get Started with the Gradebook
      • Posting Grades and Feedback
      • Troubleshooting in the Canvas Gradebook
    • Take Attendance In Canvas
    • Student View Of Grades
    • SpeedGrader
    • Grading Schemes
    • Rubrics
    • Peer Review
    • Canvas Discussions
  • People and Groups
    • Add People To Canvas
    • User Roles + Permissions
    • Get Started With Groups
    • Get Started With Analytics
  • Model Canvas Courses
  • Canvas Guide for Students
    • Changing Your Display Name and Setting Pronouns
    • Syllabus Search Student Guide
    • Using the Immersive Reader

Set Up A Homepage

Updated on January 25, 2023

The homepage of your course site provides students with both an overview of the course and guidance about what is most important in the course. Your choice of a homepage is closely related to how you choose to organize your site content (see Options for Organizing Content).

Selecting a Home Page Type

To choose a homepage layout, click “Choose Home Page” in the upper right corner of the homepage:

 

Then select from the list of options:

Home page options including Course Activity Stream, Pages Front Page, Course Modules, Assignments List, Syllabus

How Each Homepage Option Looks

Pages Front Page

The default home page style for most courses is a basic webpage that can be edited using the Rich Text Editor. You can add formatted text, make links to documents, images, websites, and other content in your course, and embed videos and other multimedia content (see Options for Organizing Content and Pages documentation).

A sample home page with text reading "Welcome to Math 101!" and an image

Syllabus

The Syllabus option automatically creates a schedule with assignments and events to guide students through the course. This option works best for courses organized by assignments (see Options for Organizing Content).

At the top, you can enter course details and other relevant syllabus information into the text editor.  Below that is the automatically-created chronological list of events and activities in your course.

Syllabus page with list of Canvas assignments

Course Modules

Modules are recommended for courses that involve organizing a lot of content in thematic units. If you want to foreground the use of modules in your course, you can opt to use the module view as the homepage (see Options for Organizing Content and Modules Overview).

Sample module set as home page

Assignments List

The Assignments List is organized to show upcoming, undated, and recent assignments at the top.  This ordering cannot be changed, and no additional text or content can be added.

Assignments set as home page

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