Canvas Course Setup (FULL TUTORIAL)

This Canvas Course full setup video tutorial is the best way to get started creating your online course with step by step instructions and examples taking the frustration out of creation.

Check out my full [EXTENSIVE] Canvas Tutorials playlist series here:

📺 Referenced Additional Full Tutorials ⤵️

✅ Settings + Functions in Canvas

✅ Creating a Syllabus in Canvas

✅ Creating a Homepage in Canvas

✅ Creating Modules in Canvas

✅ Setting Up Discussions in Canvas

✅ Creating Assignments in Canvas

✅ New Quiz 2.0 in Canvas

✅ Hidden Games in Canvas

✅ Grading Discussions in Canvas

✅ Journal Assignments in Canvas

Related playlist series:
Online Teaching Tips + Techniques Series

Timestamps
00:00 Overview
1:10 Settings + Navigation Bar
10:15 Syllabus
13:15 Homepage
17:15 Modules
21:30 Content
38:00 Grouping Assignments + Weighting Grades
41:00 Publishing + Setting Lock Dates

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🎥 Tech + editing tools I used to make this video ⤵️

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[ecdevera]

What more can we ask for? Clear, riveting, a pleasant and well-modulated voice all throughout, properly phased, unhurried, relaxed, well-organized, encouraging, easy-to-follow, and yes, a pedagogy so calming and unintimidating. Thank you, thank you, and ever more thank you from our whole family who will be using Canvas for our homeschool modules.

[michaelrichter]

I am just learning Canvas and this was exactly the kind of overview that I was looking for. Thank you for putting this together - it's perfect!

[michaelheiman]

Thank you! I learned more in these 45 minutes of video clips than the 2 days of confusing inservice PD about Canvas (and I didn't imagine table-flipping my computer once).

[elainechekich]

Helped me so much. I'm teaching college courses as a late hire. I've never worked with Canvas. I was so confused. Your clarity helped me understand the design much better. Thank you!

[Arthur.Rosario]

I'm a new hire and was blindsided with the task of running new faculty orientation with a focus on Canvas. Your video is invaluable. Thank you.

[marinagorlach]

Ashlee, I am so grateful! I started from scratch, have never taught online before and have never used Canvas. Your videos gave me so much info, I could design great courses that my students called "excellently structured." Thank you, thank you, keep doing it!

[alanhenderson]

Can the students save an uncompleted assignment in the Essay box ? (Or do they need to complete before logging off?)

[lisawoody]

Thank you for this. Your pacing is perfect for the watch/pause/try approach. You're personable and likable without being self-conscious. I appreciate that you don't waste time yet there's no rushing either. AND you speak in complete sentences with NO vocal tics or fyllables. I'm a homeschool teacher in Texas with about 60+ students in four classes. So helpful! Great job and much appreciated.

[andreadelfavero]

A Facebook group pointed me in your direction when I posted an SOS for help getting started in Canvas. I spent an entire 6 hours of PD watching most of your videos, and it was an excellent use of my time. Seeing you use the tools as you explained them was helpful for a learner like me. Thank you for showing us your old courses so we could see an example of the end product. I appreciate the time you took to make these and update them as Canvas is updated. You have taken a great dea of stress and overwhelm on my shoulders.

[ikengas]

Wow Ashlee!!! Saying that you are great at teaching Canvas is an understatement! Why don't I say that you are exceptional. Thanks a million times for your teaching skills. Keep-up the great work.

[AngeleneJans]

You are a life saver! I have been putting off making a canvas page for my 8th grade social studies class since May, now here I am in July rushing to get it done. So grateful to have found your videos!!!!

[bertfabila]

This semester, I'll be using Canvas for the first time. Many thanks, Ashlee. I am really grateful for this thorough tutorial.

[Saravandenbetg]

Thank you for the tutorial. I noticed you are from RCC. I graduated from the nursing program in 2000 from RCC. I am now teaching in Texas for the nursing program. Thank you again.

[georgiakonstantinou]

Wow! Amazing video! Very engaging! Loved the flow!

[danmilloy]

VERY, VERY HELPFUL! You are a GREAT teacher!

[louisfranceschini]

Hello Ashlee! I'm a former theatre teacher myself--now a professor of education--who just got thrown into the deep end with Canvas. Although what I'm currently doing is less a course and more like online advising, I really appreciated your presentation, start to finish. Hard for this once-theatre person to give up face-to-face instruction, but you made online understanding, appealing, and, above all, do-able.
Thanks for being my water-wings!

[creativewritingclasses]

This is seriously the best how-to video I have ever seen. You are a very good teacher. You kept a good pace, wasted no time, and you were very clear every step of the way. I was so scared of Canvas before. Not anymore. Thank you so much!!!

[traceyscottwilson]

You are the best! This is the best! Thank you for decoding this for all of us old school teachers!

[JoyWilson-qtog]

Ashlee I just realized that you resemble Anne Heche. You probably get that all the time with that super cute pixie cut. Thank you for creating this video it is a life saver each semester.

[MindyRew]

This Crash Course was very helpful, Ashlee! Thanks for providing this informative tutorial!