The TEL team are continually looking to improve the teaching and learning experience for all staff and students. Our recent exploration into consistency across multiple courses found that some students are finding it difficult to locate some resources on their course. That’s why we’re setting a standardised menu across all courses!
Canvas’s tools allow you to create some really great designs and personalise your course, but this can make accessing content difficult across multiple courses in a program for your students. By creating a standardised menu across the institution, we’re hoping to improve access to content for your students.
Menu Order
From Monday the 1st August, your course menu will appear in the following order:
- Home
- Announcements
- Key Information
- Assignments
- Grades
- Reading List
- Zoom – Becomes Timetable
- Files (Hidden)
- Modules
- Pages
- People
- Panopto
- Quizzes
- Discussions
- Collaborations
- Syllabus
- Class Notebook
- Chat
- Office 365
- Module Evaluation
- Outcomes
- Vevox
- Buddycheck
- Big Blue Button (Conferences) (Hidden)
- Settings
You can still hide menu items that you don’t want to see, and the Files menu item will continue to be permanently hidden from students. We don’t recommend changing the order of the menu once it has been set, to ensure that students benefit from a consistent experience across all courses. If you have previously hidden areas this change will not affect that setting it merely rearrange the item in the menu.
Find out more about what you can do to improve consistency in your course in our top tips blog post: 4 Tips to Keep Your Canvas Courses Consistent (Staff).