The primary organizing feature in Canvas is Modules. The power of Modules is that instructors can use it to organize all content pieces and set an order for students to access resources and complete assignments. When course sites use Modules, students can seamlessly move through the content without having to look up what to do next.
Canvas’s Modules works a bit like a folder system BUT there’s an important distinction: Canvas content doesn’t actually ‘live’ in Modules. Rather, the content ‘lives’ in the various index areas: Assignments, Pages, Files, Discussions, Quizzes. What you see in Modules is a set of links that point back to the permanent content in those indexes.
- Takeaway 1: When you are positive you have created a piece of content but can’t find it, look in the index for that content (e.g., Pages, Assignments, etc.). If content exists in the index, you can easily add it back into a Module without recreating it.
- Takeway 2: When you remove Canvas content from a Module, it is not deleted. The only way to delete Canvas content from your site is to open the index (e.g., Pages, Assignments, etc.) and delete the content from there.
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