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by Carolina Schoen II 8 min read

How are course materials displayed to users?

Take courses.teachabrand.com.. The homepage is set to the course directory, so the audience can see the full list of courses that are available. If you’re still developing your course content, you can create a simple custom site page as a landing page to let your audience know your courses are coming soon.

How do I restrict access to activities within a course section?

Dec 02, 2019 · More frequently, it’s a student who took a course previously, rather than a current student choosing to contribute materials as study resources. When materials on third-party websites are discovered to belong to a faculty member, the University’s Office of General Counsel recommends they send a “takedown notice” by fax and email.

How do I display a block on the course page?

You can change your Course Home Page to reflect one of five layout options: the Recent Activity Dashboard, Pages Front Page, the Course Modules, the Assignment List, or the Syllabus. Note: You must set a Front Page before selecting the Pages Front Page option. Additionally, only Published pages can be set as the Front Page.

How do I add course materials to my course?

From the Manage Course menu, select Course Admin. Select Homepages. Select the Active Homepage drop-down menu. Select Default from the list, then select Apply. The course homepage will now be set to a two-column layout. Note: If you have custom widgets (such as Pearson, McGraw-Hill, etc.), you will need to add them back to your homepage after switching …

How do I customize my Canvas homepage?

On your course homepage, click the Edit button. Click inside the text box. Click the Images tab on the right side of the page (sometimes the tabs can shift to the bottom of the page if your window is too small). Click + Upload a new image.Jan 8, 2019

How do I remove a course from Canvas homepage?

Deleting a Course
  1. From your course home page, click the settings tab at the bottom of the course menu.
  2. Once in settings, there will be options for both deleting or ending the course on the menu on the right side of the page. Click whichever one to end or delete your course.

How do I hide course navigation in Canvas?

To hide a navigation link, you can drag and drop the link to the hidden section at the bottom of the page [1]. You can also click the link Settings icon [2] and select the Disable option [3]. Once you have disabled a link, you can also use the Setting icon to enable the link again; the option will change to Enable.

Can you hide courses on Canvas?

In the Global Navigation menu (on left), click Courses and then All Courses. To favorite a course or courses, click the empty star next to each course name to add it to the Courses menu. To hide a course, click the filled star next to each course name to remove it from the Courses menu.Jan 20, 2021

How do you remove yourself from a Canvas course as a teacher?

@dufay_k ​, go to the course and click on People. You should see a gear icon by your name. If you click on the gear icon then you'll get the option to "remove from course." If you don't see the gear icon then you'll need to contact the person who added you to the course to have them remove you.Aug 13, 2016

How do I change my Canvas course picture as a student?

Customize Course Image
  1. To change the image, select the course you would like to customize. ...
  2. Scroll down and select “Settings” from the menu on the left.
  3. On the top of the Course Details page, click the “Choose Image” box.
Jan 12, 2018

How do I hide student view in Canvas?

To disable a section or hide it from student view, drag a section down to the hidden section at the bottom of the page (1). Alternatively, you can click on the three dots to the right of the section (1) and click Disable (2).

How do I make navigation items visible in Canvas?

To begin adjusting your course navigation menu, click on Settings in the course navigation menu, and choose the Navigation tab at the top. 2. You will see two lists of menu items. Items in the top list are enabled and visible to students; items in the bottom list are hidden and invisible to students.Mar 22, 2019

Where is course settings in Canvas?

To access settings, click on "Settings" located on the bottom of the navigation tabs on the left of your course. The information below will give you general information about the different parts of your course settings, but more information will be provided on the tabs on how to actually use these different features.

How do I hide courses on my dashboard?

Click on “Courses” in the red vertical menu bar, and then click on “all courses”. To hide a course card in your dashboard, click on the little star so that the color is gone.

How do I archive a canvas course?

Once student interaction on your course is no longer needed (only viewing), setting an end date will manually 'archive' your course and remove it from your, and your students', dashboards. The course will still be accessible in archive format by clicking on courses and viewing Past enrolments.

Can you archive classes in Canvas?

When a course is archived, it will no longer appear on your Canvas Dashboard or in your All Courses List. If you do not wish to have a particular course archived, you may temporarily delay this process with the new Course Archive Manager tool.Aug 20, 2019

Getting started on Teachable: Set up your homepage

Teachable is your home base to create, market, and sell online courses. With a Teachable subscription, you can host and deliver your course content, process payments and student enrollments, and get help with your taxes and finances.

Connecting your website to Teachable

As an online business owner, chances are you have a core business you’ve developed over the last few years and a website you’ve dedicated hours to building. Now, you want to expand your business with online courses.

Link back to your website

Much like Teachabrand did, think of Teachable as an extension of your website and your business! In both teachabrand.com and courses.teachabrand.com, the navigation is customized to help customers go back and forth. While it’s definitely not necessary, depending on your audience, it can be a helpful guide.

Creating your homepage on Teachable

If you’re starting your online business with Teachable and do not have an existing website, we have you covered. On Teachable, your homepage functions as your main website, so you don’t need to purchase other web-hosting platform subscriptions.

Are you ready?

Click here to download a PDF checklist to help you set up your homepage.

Open Course

In Global Navigation, click the Courses link [1], then click the name of the course [2].

Set Front Page

If you want to select a Pages Front Page but the link is grayed out, you must first set a Front Page.

Select File

By default course files are visible and accessible to all users [1]. Teachers and TAs can restrict files and folders [2], which means the content will only be accessible to teachers and TAs in the course as long as the file is not placed to a content area outside of Files (e.g. Modules, Assignments).

Manage Visibility in Student Files

The default restriction option is to make the file only available to students with the link. The Only available to students with link option makes the file available to students who are given a link to the file. The file will be hidden to students in Course Files.

Schedule Student Availability

Schedule student availability gives students a window of time to view the file. If you select this option, students can view the file in Course Files as well as other areas of Canvas where the file has been added. If students attempt to access the file outside the availability dates, the file will be locked.

View File

View the restricted status for the file. Hover over the icon to view the details.

Enabling the use of restrict access sitewide

To use the restrict access feature, it must be enabled by an administrator by checking the "Enable restricted access" box in Administration > Site administration > Advanced features. A restrict access section will then appear for teachers on the Activity settings screen, with an 'Add restriction' button.

Enabling or disabling specific restrictions

In Site administration > Plugins > Availability restrictions > Manage restrictions you can enable or disable (Hide/Show) any of the individual restriction types for use throughout the site.

Restricting activity access

In the settings of each activity there is a Restrict Access section. To get to this, click 'Edit' alongside the activity you want to restrict and then choose 'Edit Settings', or add a new activity, which will bring you to the settings page.

Hiding the conditions

If the eye is SHUT then students who do not meet that part of the condition will not see the activity at all.

ALL or ANY Conditions

Further restrictions may be added by clicking the 'Add restriction' button again, and it is possible to specify that ALL the conditions or ANY of the conditions are required before the activity is made available. Thus, it is possible to use 'Or' as well as 'And' conditions. See Using Conditional activities for an example.

Restricting whole course section access

It is possible to restrict access to activities and resources within a whole course section by specifying the conditions in the settings for that particular section. Do this by editing the section settings in Topic menu > Edit topic > Restrict access .

What is lesson content & display settings?

The lesson content & display settings provide a way for you to use additional content on your lesson, as well as make it a little more interactive. You can include additional lesson materials, add some helpful logic to your video playback, allow users to upload assignments, and include a lesson timer.

What is lesson material?

Lesson materials are supplemental materials needed for the lesson. It is most common to include PDF files or other downloadable files in this area, but you can include anything you’d like (PDFs, images, downloadable audio files, links to other websites, etc.). Next to Lesson Materials, turn the setting on.

Block settings

Certain blocks, such as the HTML block, allow a block title and more to be set.

Where this block appears

Depending upon the context and user permissions, this area determines where this block will appear. See this forum post explaining block contexts for more information.

Making a block sticky throughout the whole site

The Moodle administrator might wish for example to display support contact details site-wide using an HTML block called 'Helpdesk':

Making a block sticky throughout a course

A teacher might wish to display a block, such as the comments block, on the course page and all activity pages.

Making a block sticky in a category

A user with category rights might for instance wish to display a Remote RSS feeds block in all of the courses within a particular category, such as a Head of Science adding Science news feeds to the Physics, Biology and Chemistry courses.

Making a block sticky in a resource or an activity

A teacher might wish to display a block in one particular resource or activity, for example a Head of Faculty might make create a Book for departmental policies and wish to add the comments block to every chapter/page of a book so colleagues can give quick feedback. (Note that such a comments block would be the same block on each chapter/page)

Adding a block to the dashboard for all users

See Dashboard. Note that such a block would not be truly 'sticky', in that users can customise their dashboard and could, if wished, delete the block.

What is content navigator?

Content Navigator. This widget allows users to access course content from the homepage. Content Navigator tracks and displays navigational history and completion and allows for navigation to the last-visited module topic.

What is a calendar widget?

Calendar - default. The Calendar widget consists of a mini-calendar and a list of upcoming events. It displays all events created by instructors, including Start, Due, and End dates attached to items in the course.

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