Canvas Modules help teachers organize and sequence content, learning activities, and assessments. Modules allow teachers to direct progress through the use of prerequisites and other conditions, and to track student work.

Modules are used to organize course content by weeks, units, or a different organizational structure that works for your course. With modules, you are essentially creating a one-directional linear flow of what you would like your students to do.

Each module can contain files, discussions, assignments, quizzes, and other learning materials that you would like to use. You can easily add items to your module that you have already created in the course or create new content shells within the modules. Course content can be added to multiple modules or iterated several times throughout an individual module. Modules can be easily organized using the drag and drop feature. Elements within the modules can also be reorganized by dragging and dropping.

Helpful Guides

Things to Try

Create two modules with titles
Add content to a module (e.g. a file or a page)
Add an example assignment, discussion, or quiz to a module
Drag and Drop to reorder the content and modules
Edit the module to add requirements and prerequisites