10 things to make sure of before you start your course.

1. Schedule

Link to the schedule in TimeEdit directly from the course. This makes it easier for the students, especially if they are using a mobile device.

2. Check the course menu

Check the course menu and hide the tools that are not relevant for your course. That will make it easier for the students to navigate on the course. If you are working with modules you can hide pages and files and show them in moduels instead to make the course more logical.
This is how you Manage the course navigation.

3. Check your modules

If you used the Modules function to build your course, you can also use it to check that everything works. Click on Modules in the course menu and look through so that everything is published (by having green ticks on all the material that is finished).

NOTE! If you have material with time settings so that it will be available later, it is important to also publish this. Otherwise the time setting will not work. Also check that the order is suitable in the modules. If you need to move something, just grab the eight small dots in front of the title and click and drag to a new location.

4. Use the student view

Is everything still visible? If you have time-locked material, its headings should be visible, but if you click on a headline, it will say that the material is locked.

Check your assignment one more time. There should be a green button to submit the assignment when you click on it in student view.

5. Check dates

Get an overview of the dates for handing in the assignments via the Calendar. Click on the color of the course you want to check and you will see the assignment date in that course.

If you have assignments that are time-locked, you can see the locks in an overview by choosing Assignments in the course menu.

6. Check links

There is a handy feature in Canvas that helps you check that all the links in the course are correct. Click on Settings in the course menu and then on Validate links on the right.

7. Add participants

Check that all teachers and other staff on the course are added, you do this via "Administer course". You add students via one or more student groups and choose Admitted or Admitted and registered. If you have a guest teacher (people without an umu ID) who will teach the course, please contact support.

8. Check availability

Use the integrated tool Ally to check the availability of your course material. You will receive concrete instructions on how you can improve accessibility so that as many people as possible can take part in them.

9. Publish your course

Don't forget to publish your course so student can be part of it. You can do this at your course home page or at your dashbord.

10. Announcements

Canvas doesn't send out any notification when you publish your course. A recommendation is to end your check by making a welcome message to the students after the course is published. Go to the course's website and click on the Announcement button on the right to write your message.