Course Page Design Basics Overview

Canvas provides your students with an immersive experience, and now you have the power to transform your blank course shell into something potentially engaging and interactive. 

With the amount of freedom you may have to create your course from scratch (this may be a blessing or a curse), keep in mind that your formatting choices can affect the way some of your students interpret or access essential information in your course. 

"The power to do good is also the power to do harm." 
-Milton Friedman 

Common mistakes Create an esthetically pleasing, effective, and accessible course

We're designing for our learners. Our main goal is to help students effectively understand our content and access content in the quickest way possible. Formatting is absolutely critical to our students' success and we need to be intentional in our design.

In this module we'll discuss the Top 6 Essentials to website course design:

  1. Less is More Design
  2. Defining navigation pathways, conventions are cool! and the F-Pattern
  3. Effective pictures
  4. Consistency is key
  5. Focus on the student perspective
  6. Accessibility for all!