[AUDIO LOGO] DANA THOMPSON: I am in a course that we're going to look at today as far as how some best practices for using modules. So just out of curiosity, how many of you, and you can either put it in the chat or give me an emoji or some sort of reaction, how many of you are using modules currently in your Canvas courses in designing? Oh, good. Good, good, good, OK. 

So modules are, in my opinion, one of the most effective ways to help with student engagement because we all know that students sometimes have trouble organizing themselves. And so modules can really be that tool that we use to help them understand the flow, the sequence, and also provide access or restrict access if we don't want them to be jumping around. 

So we're going to jump into modules. And you can see here that-- this is a French course. It has the template in here. And so one of the things that I really like is modules help me as well. So when I'm teaching a course, and I go through, and I make a note to myself, oh, that didn't work this year or next year I want to try it this way or next semester I want to try and do that. And I'll write my note down somewhere and then I can't find it. And it comes time to set up my next course and I don't remember that. 

And so I really like to have a teacher module, and remind myself not to publish it, where I can add my notes to help me remember the next time I'm going to take this course and modify it for the next class that will be participating. So really, really love that feature. And usually what I will do is put this in here and put it towards the bottom. My students will not see it because it is not published. Even if I have items in here as published, the students will not see it if the module itself is not published. 

So what does that look like? You can see here that right now there's only one module published. Everything else is unpublished. And if I come in here and look at this from the student's perspective, that's all I see, is that one published item. So that helps me restrict what my students have access to until I'm ready for them to have access to it, or not have access at all, because it's for me. So that is a very useful feature in using modules. 

So when, let's see, when I'm in here and I have my teacher module and I want to move it, so the module and items inside the modules all are movable. Click drag drop. So I call these the railroad tracks. So I can click, I can drag this, I can move it to another module. I can move it back to the module that it was in. Click Drag, oh, until my mouse doesn't want to click it. 

So you can see that sometimes it's a little bit difficult. And I want to move this all the way to the bottom, so I don't want to click drag drop that. So I'm going to come over here and move this entire module and everything that's inside of it using my three dots over here. 

And when I click on that three dots, I have the ability to either move the contents that are in the module somewhere else, so maybe you have your modules set up for a daily agenda and you didn't get to something, or you didn't get to that module because of something that happened, you can move the contents from one module to another, or I'm going to move the entire module and everything inside of it, but I'm going to use this edit feature so I can just move it to the bottom with a couple of clicks instead of trying to force my mouse to follow my lead and click drag and drop. So I was able to move this all the way down to the bottom very easily. 

So the fact that you have the ability to organize and reorganize things using modules is really helpful when you're designing your content and your scope and sequence with your students. And so I'm going to collapse all of my modules so that I only see the titles. So modules is like your table of contents. 

So not only can you use modules to organize, what you also can do with modules that you can't do in these other links like assignments, discussions pages is modules is the only place in Canvas where you can combine different items in the same place to provide your students a sequence to work through. So if I take a look at this module 1, you can see that I have some text headers which only show in the module view, but it helps your students visually see that it's divided into the five E's. And these are the items in each section. 

So those text headers are really helpful in this view. But once they start clicking through the Previous and Next buttons within the page, they don't see the text headers. But you can see I've got a couple of pages here. I've got a discussion here. I have an assignment, a quiz, and I can also put in-- so maybe I have a PDF handout that I want to put in the module, and so I can go ahead and add that to my module as well. 

So when you're looking at your module, and this is a one that is a template so I can use it to build future modules so that everything is consistent and I don't have to redo things or do-- it's here I can just go in and edit it instead of having to recreate it, but you also have the ability to add more to your module. So when you're looking at adding items to your module, these are all the items that you can put inside a module. 

So we saw the assignment quiz, a file you can upload like a handout or a newsletter or something like that. You can add a Canvas page, a Canvas discussion, the text header. But then you also have the ability to link out to an external website. Maybe it's your textbook resource or a blog that you want them to read. And you can also pull in some external tools like Google Drive, Google Docs, those kinds of things. So do you just say-- 

SPEAKER 1: OK, sorry. 

DANA THOMPSON: Did you just say one lesson as a template? Where do we put it? So that's a great question. What I usually do is I will create one module and create it in how I want my standard flow to be. So whether it's an engage, explore, expand, evaluate, extend, or maybe it's a pre, during class, after class. However you want to organize your module. And that's something that you get to decide. Then I would create one module with all of the items that will most likely be repeated in the future modules, and then knowing that I can always add and remove. 

So what that would look like is I would come up to the top. And I would create a module. And let's just say that this is my module template. And then I'm going to add that module. Now it always adds your modules to the bottom. So I'm going to scroll down here to the bottom. And here's my module template. So in this case, I can drop files here that are on my computer, or I could just simply start creating new things. 

So that is the other thing that is really great about modules. And what people don't really realize is maybe they'll come into pages and create a new page, and then they'll create a new assignment and assignments and to create a new discussion and discussions. You can do that. And then you can add them, or you can create right here from the module view. So if I click on this plus sign, again, you can see all of the items that you are able to either pull in that have already been created or that you can create. 

So I'm going to do the Introduction page, the Welcome page for the module. So you can see here, I've got all of these other pages in my course already. They're all listed in my pages link, but I can see them here in my add item to module template screen, or I can create a brand new page. So if I wanted to use a brand new page, then I would click that. And then give it a page name. So this is going to be my template module overview. 

And then the indentation. This is really nice visually for your students. What I like to do is I like to have my Canvas pages not indented. But anytime there's something they need to do or participate in, I'll indent it one level or two levels that way when they're just coming in and looking at the module so that they can guesstimate what they have to do, they can see oh, in this module I have to do three things because it's indented. So it just helps them just using that visual cue. 

So I'm not going to indent this one because it's a page. And I'm going to go ahead and add it to my module. And there it is right there. So I didn't have to go in because the other method is I can click on the plus sign, choose page, come over here and find the overview and to do list, and then add it. So you can do it either way. So if you've already got it, maybe you created it in a different module and you want to use it again because that's the other nice thing is you can use things again in multiple modules, then you could go ahead and add it in there again. So maybe I want to add this one in. So that one was already created. And so you can see that they're both in here. 

Now, I don't want both of them. So I'm going to come over here on this one that I added by mistake and click these three dots and I'm going to remove it. And the nice thing is it's not going to delete it. It's just going to remove it from the module. But I can still get to it from my pages link, or I can add it to a different module. The only place you can delete items and not have access to them again-- I'm going to go ahead and remove that So it's not here. But when I come over to my pages, and I view all my pages, that Template module overview and Template overview and Getting started, they're both still here. 

So if I actually wanted to delete it because I didn't want to have both of them, and I don't want to confuse myself, here in the actual pages, index page, is where you would delete it from the course altogether. Does that make sense? Anybody want to put a question in the chat or grab the mic. 

SHARI: Where is the index page again? 

DANA THOMPSON: So these links over here in your course navigation, these are your index pages. So I can come over here to my pages. And because I have a home page, that's what it's going to show me. But if I want to look at all the pages I've created so far, whether they're in modules or not, I'm going to click on the View All Pages button here at the top. If I wanted to see all of my assignments only, then I would click on the Assignments Index page. And if I wanted to look at just my discussions, then I would click on, if I could find it, the Discussions Index page. 

So this is where you can find those items. 

SHARI: I want the navigation. That's the answer. Navigation-- 

DANA THOMPSON: The course navigation, correct. 

SHARI: Thank you. 

DANA THOMPSON: But the only place you can organize them in a specific order for your students to see and be able to go to a page, and then an assignment and then a discussion, and then maybe a URL I want them to read, is in your module view. This is the only place that you can organize them that way, and of different items. 

SHARI: Thank you. 

DANA THOMPSON: So now that I have, we're going to come back down here, I have my module overview. So every module I'm going to open it up with an overview. This is what you're going to learn in this module. And then the next thing that I want to do is provide them with the content or the curriculum that they're going to work through. So I'm going to go ahead and add-- so I clicked on that module. And now I'm going to add another page. And this is going to be a new page. 

So I'm going to click on Create Page. And I'm going to name this one. This is going to be our lesson 1 introduction and resources. So I can click on Add item. Now, I'm doing this in my module template. So instead of having lesson 1 maybe I want it to be a lesson and then a number sign. So I remember that I need to change it later. 

So the nice thing is I can come over here on this one that I just added, and I can click on those three dots again. Those three dots always mean there's more hiding. So go check out what's hiding. And what I'm going to do is edit the name of this page right here in my module view. So instead of lesson 1, I'm going to put the lesson number number. So I know that I need to change that when I actually go to put in the content for that lesson. 

And then following the introduction and resources, I want to do a quick check in. So I'm going to come here and add another item to my module. And this time I'm going to make it a quick quiz. And I'm going to create a new quiz. So not one that's already there. And I have the option here in my instance, to choose whether I want a new quiz or a classic quiz. You may not have that option depending on how your Canvas is set up. But I'm going to choose a new quiz, which is the tool, and I'm going to say lesson hashtag hashtag, check in. 

Now I can also-- say I want this part of my assignments. And so then it will show up in my assignments tab also. And because my students have to submit something, I'm going to actually visually tell them that this is different than just a page by indenting it one level. And I'm going to add that to my module. So you can see it indents it just a little bit. So visually it's like, oh, I'm going to have to do that. That's something that I need to submit. 

Now at this point, if my students are looking at my module, I just want to give them a visual cue that what's coming afterward is going to be a group project, or an ability for them to maybe come up here and explore. So that's where these text headers come in handy. So I can come over here to the plus sign. And I can add to my module a text header. Now again, they will only see this in your module view. But it helps them. It's like a table of contents. And so this is going to be our Explore section. 

And I don't want this one indented. So I'm going to make it go back to the far left. And then it adds this text header. And so now this next section they get, so this is where they were learning. Now this is where they're going to explore more. And I can continue to add to this template module. Or if I was doing this for an actual content module, I could do that as well. 

But here's the beauty. So we're going to come back up here to this one up here, this module 1. This is a true template. So there's no content in here, but the structure is what I want. The flow is what I want. And I'm ready to now create the content, plug in the content for my lesson 1. And so instead of doing it here because once I go in and edit these items, these pages and quizzes and assignments, then it's no longer a template. It's actually the content. 

So I want to keep the template, but I want everything in here copied so that I can create my next module. So I'm going to, again, come over to my three dots for the module itself. And I'm going to say, you know what? We are going to duplicate this entire module and everything that's in it. So just look at how many things I'm not going to have to create from scratch because it's already going to be there. 

So I'm going to have 1, 2, 3, 4 pages that will be done. And I don't have to click and create and all of that. It saves me a lot of time, and it keeps the consistency between my modules. So I'm going to go ahead and duplicate this module. And you can see down here that it tells me, this is my module. And everything has the word copy at the end of it. So I just have to go in and change the name of the item so that the word copy isn't there. 

But we're going to say instead of module 1, we're going to come here and edit the name of the module so that it's module 1. And we're going to say that this is going to be our introduction to culinary arts. I'm teaching a culinary arts, and module one is going to be my introduction. So I'm just going to change that name. Save it. And there I have my module. And then I'm going to start plugging in my content. 

So I don't need two overview and to do lists. So I'm going to go ahead and use those three dots again to remove the extra one. It's not going to delete it, it's just going to remove it from the Module view and my students won't have to see it twice. And so then I can come in here and actually click on the name of this page so that I can go in and edit it. And this is all content that I put in and then it duplicated it. 

So again, once I come in and edit, this is going to be my module 1. Get rid of that extra. And then I'm going to get rid of the copy too. So this is my module 1 overview and to do list. And so now I've got a template that I can come in here and say, OK, this is where I'm going to plug in my introduction. 

And then this is going to be where I'm going to plug in in to do that they need to do to successfully complete the module. And then I'm going to save it, and I'm done. I don't have to recreate it every time because it was duplicated from the template module. And I'm just going to go in and modify it so that it is appropriate for my module 1 introduction. 

Notice that I have a Previous button and the Next button. That is also a function of modules. If we were to come in here to View All Pages, so now I'm out of modules, now I'm in my pages, index page, and I come down here and open up that overview and to do list from pages instead of modules, it's in a module, so I still have those overview or those Previous and Next buttons. 

But if I open up a page that's not in a module, let's say-- we're going to try this one. Notice there are no Preview or Previous or Next buttons. So by placing your items inside a module, it helps your students navigate in sequence without having to constantly go back and click on the next one. And then go back and click on the next one. So I can come in here to my module, introduction to culinary arts, and I can open up the overview and to do list as a student, read through it, and then just simply click Next to get to the next item. 

And here's where I can put in my presentation. So maybe I have a slide deck that I presented, I can plug that in here. So if they were absent or if they want to review it outside of class, they have access to it. They're not having to email me and ask me for it. It's here. And then they just click Next to do the activity called the group discussion. And here's where they can interact with their peers. But I've provided them access to it in the module, so they're getting to it in order because I don't want them to discuss the content until they have actually engaged with the content. 

So I've given them the content first, and then I've directed them through modules into the discussion. And then after the discussion, they click on Next, and it's into their individual assignment. And again, because we're using modules, they go through that in sequence and it helps them understand, here we are, when they look at the Module view, what they're going to have to do. So notice I've got a quiz, assignment, a discussion. Those are all things I have to participate in. The others are pages that I just need to read and absorb. 

One of the things that I always suggest when you are looking at creating modules, is always have, at the end of a module, some sort of queue weather it's visual or like this, wrap up and looking ahead, that lets them know they've gotten to the end. So it can be a page that says, OK, this is what we've done. Here's a review. And this is what we're going to do in the next module, so that they know that they're done. And when they click Next, they're going into the next module or the next lesson. 

Or, I know many people will just put, you have finished this module, whether it's a stop sign or some fun emoji or meme or something like that, but just something that tells the students, OK, you're done with this lesson. If you want to go on and you're allowing them to they can. Otherwise, they can wait until the next day. So having an introduction so an overview, and then ending with a wrap up, that's best practice. So it helps them understand, even if they're not looking at the Modules view, where they are in the sequence of content and activities. Any questions so far? No, OK. 

So we're going-- I'm going to just come in here, and actually I'm going to move this module so that it's near the top. Because this is my first lesson, we're going to pretend that all the contents in here, everything's done. I'm going to come over here to the three dots and I'm going to move the entire your module. And I don't want it right at the top because there is that introduction to student. So I'm going to have it come after that Canvas overview and resources for students because I do want them to see that first. 

And I do want them to see the module that introduces the class, tells them when my office hours are, how to get a hold of me, that kind of thing. So I'm going to have it come after that. And so it's going to move that module and everything in it. So now my students come in and they do the Canvas overview and review in case they aren't familiar with Canvas. Then they get to learn a little bit about the class itself. And then they jump into the introduction to culinary arts. 

Now, what if I want to make sure that they don't do the content in module 1 until they have completed the welcome to my class module? So I want them to participate in the question board and introduce themselves. I want them to know how to navigate the course and get all this information. I don't want them to just come in and skip over that and jump in here into module 1. 

So what we can do with modules is control when and how they move through the modules. So for example, we're going to come up here to welcome to class. Your journey begins here. And we're going to edit the module settings. So I'm going to come into that, to the three dots, and click on Edit. And I can do a couple of things. I can lock it so that they cannot, even if it's published, they can't access it until a certain date and time. 

So maybe I want them to-- schools or classes start February 1. I don't want them to have access to this until after they've come to the first day of class. So I'm going to give them access to this on February 2. So I'm going to choose-- oh, February 1 is a Saturday, but that's OK. So February 2 and 12:02 is going to be too late. So we're going to do say 12:00AM. So right when February 2 happens, they will have access to this module and I can save that. So now you see that this module, and the students see this too, will unlock February 2. 

So what does that look like for a student. Well, first I need to publish this module. And I'm going to publish all the items inside the module. It used to be you would have to click every little circle to publish it, but Canvas got smart and they gave us the option to either publish the module only or publish everything in it or unpublish items. So we're just going to publish the module and everything that's in it. So now they all have green check marks. 

And when I come in and look at this as a student, you can see I can access my Canvas resources for student page, but I can't access this module until February 2. So I see it's there, I see I'm going to have to do it, but I can't get to it until February 2. And that helps communication. And then as soon as February 2 at midnight opens or happens, everything will become accessible and the students can come in and work on it. So that's one thing that you can do. 

But say you do want them to access it, but you don't want them to access the module after it until they've done everything in here. So that's another way that you can control how they access and workflow. So we're going to, again, come in and edit our module settings. And I'm going to remove that lock until I want them to come in and work through the welcome to your class. But I want to make sure that they look at every item and that they participate in the question board before they can get into module 1. 

So those are called requirements. You are required to review the Class Overview page, read the instruction or instructor information, read the class resources, and participate in the question board. So I'm going to add some requirements. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to say students must complete all of the requirements that are listed down here. So I want them to view the Class Overview page. I'm going to add another requirement where they're going to view the instructor information. And then I'm going to add another requirement where they're going to view the class resources. 

And then finally, I'm going to add a requirement where instead of just viewing the question board, I actually want them to contribute to the conversation by posting something in that question board. So now I have four requirements in this module that they have to do. And the other thing that I can do is say that they have to do it in sequential order. For this module, I don't care. So I'm going to leave that unchecked. 

Or maybe you just want them to complete one of the items that's in the module. So maybe you have a module where you've got a student choice board, where you've got five different activities they could do, but they need to choose one. So then you would choose this box here. And as long as they submitted one of the choices then they can move on. So lots of choices as an instructor in setting this up. 

But what happens when I click on Save? Notice that there's more information here. So if I look at this from a student, I now know, without having to ask my instructor, that I have to read the class overview, I have to read the instructor information, and I have to read the class resources, and I have to contribute to the question board. It tells me right here. And if I come in here as a student. And I read the class overview. And then I have to go somewhere, so I come back in later. And I take a look at my modules. It tells me I've already done that. So it helps me keep track of what I've already worked on and what I still need to do inside that module. 

So I have to complete all of these items. This tells me what I have to complete. And this over here tells me when I've completed them. I did not check that I have to move in order. So I'm going to come down here and go to the class question board, and you'll see that I've read it. But when I come back to modules, it's not checked off because the requirement is I actually have to contribute, not just read. 

So if I come in here to my class question board, and I hit on reply, and my first question is, how much homework do you want us to do? Or something like that. So I'm going to reply. And so now you can see test student. That's me. I have a reply here and all of my peers will see my reply. This is where students can interact with students. 

Now, when I come to modules you can see that I've read the class overview, so I should have known the answer to my question. And I've participated in the class question board, but I haven't done these other two things yet. So it really helps your students keep track of what they have done and what they still need to do. Now, I'm not going to do the other two things yet because I want to show you something else. But before I do, any questions on that? Putting requirements on items inside your module. 

I'm going to come down here to module 1. Now in the welcome module, they had to complete all items. And I'm going to go ahead and publish everything in my module 1. And we're going to pretend there's content in there. I've added everything. What I want module 1 to do is stay locked until they've done everything in welcome module. So I'm going to, again, come in and edit my module settings. And I'm not going to lock it to a certain date. What I'm going to do is add a prerequisite. 

So the prerequisite is they have to complete everything in the welcome to class module. So now when I click on Save, you can see that it tells me that there's a prerequisite. And when I come into Student view, what you'll notice is that I haven't completed everything in the welcome to your class module. I still have two things I have to do, even though it's not in order, but I don't have access to this module and it tells me I need to finish the welcome to class your journey begins here in order for everything in here to be accessible and open up. 

So you don't have to have a specific date. It's based on their work and their progress. So that's called a prerequisite. And I can do prerequisites and requirements to even control the access and the flow further. So if I come into my module 1 again and edit my settings, I have my prerequisite, but I'm also going to add requirements. And I don't want to require everything because I'm going to trust my students. 

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to require them to participate in the discussion. So we're going to contribute to the discussion. I'm going to add another requirement that they have to turn in the individual assignment. So instead of just viewing the assignment, I want them to actually submit it. But they can move on as long as they submitted it, even if I haven't graded it yet. And then the other requirement I'm going to have is the quiz. And this quiz. I'm going to have them score at least, and the quiz is 25 points, so I want them to score at least 20 points before they can move on to the next content. 

And I'm going to give them multiple chances to take that quiz until they get to a score of at least 20. And then I'm going to click on, and you can see up here that they're only completing those that I've listed. And I didn't list everything. I want to click on Save. You'll notice that the pages don't have requirements on it, but they have to contribute to the discussion. 

They have to submit the assignment, and they have to score at least 20 points on the quiz in order to open up the next module because then if this is the next module and I come in here to edit that settings, I'm going to put the prerequisite of module 1. So now I'm controlling not only when they can access it, what they have to do first, and what they have to do within the module to be able to complete the module and move ahead. 

And what does this look like from the students perspective? So you can see I still have two items to do here. But I can see in here that I have the prerequisites, and this isn't available because I didn't view these other two pages. So let's go ahead and view our instructor information. And then click on Next to view our class resources. And when I come back to modules, you'll see that those are now all complete. And I now have access to this module. 

And I know that these are the three things that I need to complete in order to complete this module. And if I'm one of those students that wants to just try and jump in without reading any of the resources or the presentations, I didn't market that it had to be in order. So I can come in and do that, I can jump around. Their question? 

But I want to control it even more, so instead of just saying you can do those in any order that you want to, I'm going to edit the settings further so that they have to complete the requirements in sequential order. Just the requirements. They can skip around on the pages unless I add them as a requirement to view, but anything that's listed as a requirement they now need to do in that order. 

And what that looks like as a student is now you can see that in order to get to the individual assignment, I have to complete the group discussion. So let's come in here and we're going to, and this is a trick the students know. They'll come in and hit Reply and put like a period in. And then they'll hit Reply because they know that will open up the next item. Students are smart. So that's when you can start adding feedback that says, you can't skip around. Don't do this again. One time Warning. 

But you'll notice that now that I contributed to the discussion, even though it was a period, I now have access to the assignment, but not the quiz. So in order to get access to the quiz, I actually have to submit my assignment, which there's no submission on here because I didn't modify it, which I need to. So that could be problematic. If you have an assignment that you've marked that they have to submit, but then you don't give them the ability to submit, then they'll never be able to move ahead. 

So just that's why I always like looking at things from the Student view because then I can see the obstacles that my students would run into. So knowing that, I'm going to come here to my assignment itself, and I'm going to edit so that, and this is a whole other webinar, that they are actually instead of no submission, they're actually going to submit something into Canvas. And they can submit a text entry in the Canvas editor. They can upload or record a media, video, or they can upload their own file. So I can even say what I want them to upload or submit and then click on Save. 

So now when I come into modules from the student view, and you can see that I need to submit my assignment, I can come in here, and I can come down on my first attempt. And I'm going to submit a text entry. This is my submission with my fat fingers. And then I'm going to submit it. And when I come back to modules, I now have access to my quiz. 

But if I take my quiz and score less than 20, I won't be able to move forward because I have to score at least 20. So you get to decide, and that's why we're leveraging modules, you get to decide how controlled you want the experience to be for your students. And I have found that if I am very controlled in the beginning until they understand, oh, these are the expectations, this is what I should be doing, I can reduce the control as I go into further lessons. 

So maybe I don't need to have every page be a requirement to be viewed because in the first module and maybe the second module, they were required before they can move on. But then they're learning that, oh, I'm going to do better if I actually review the material. So then in the next modules maybe I don't need to. Any questions? Anything you need me to redo or re demonstrate you put it in the chat and you can grab the mic. Nothing? 

So another thing, I know that sometimes you're creating a course and your modules are not going to be exactly the same, module 1 to module 2 to module 3. And so maybe this template isn't that helpful. But what you want to do is, say you're going to create, we're going to come down here to my module template, maybe you're going to create the content as you go, which you can. I mean, that's the other thing is say I want to publish the module, but not all of the items because I just want to publish the overview and the introduction because I'm not ready for them to have the quiz yet. 

So I'm going to control it this way with my module view and not with available until dates and all of that on the quiz. So you can do that. But say I'm creating something and now I want to take that because I like how that page looks, and I want to use that for my next page, the nice thing about modules, and this is the only place you can do this as well, is I've created this page. I want to use that for my next page. I can duplicate just that item. So now I have this and I can go in and just modify it with the other information that I want. 

So again, if you're creating a choice board, so let's change this to say, choice number one. And so I've created there choice number one. And now I want to take that same, and I don't want to have to redo it from scratch, so I duplicated it. And we're going to edit the name. This is going to be choice number two. And so now I'm going to duplicate that again so that I can create my choice number three. 

So it really gives you the ability to create content that is not only consistent but much quicker, a lot less clicking around. So now I've got my three choices. And then I would just go in and update what each choice would be. But the things that should be on every choice are already there. And I'm just modifying-- I create it once, and then I use it to recreate the future choices. 

And then this is going to be-- we're going to change this. So instead of a lesson 1 check in, this is going to be our lesson review. Something like that, whatever. So now, I want them to pick a choice. So this is where they see the information. And then they can pick one of these. And then they have their quiz at the end. And I don't want this explore section. So I'm going to remove that text header. 

So really designing from modules is much more convenient than trying to create things in the individual areas like assignments, discussions, pages, quizzes, and pulling them in. But you can do it both ways. This is just how I prefer to do it. The other thing that is really great about modules, and this is fairly new and I honestly haven't used it in my classes yet, but I wished it had been here. I'm going to go ahead and publish all of these for now. 

I can come up here to the three dots for this module, and let's get out of all of those. OK, I know you're published. We're going to refresh so that those go away. I'm going to come here to this module and say this is an extra credit, or maybe it's a remedial module that I want only a few students to have to do this work. I can come in here to the three dots now, and I can assign this to students and not the whole class. 

So if I click on Assign to, it's default to everyone. But maybe I just want to assign it to a few students. And I don't have any students in this class. So that's why it went out on me. But if you assign to and then you can start typing students or maybe you've got sections. Maybe you have an advanced section and an intermediate section and a beginning section if you're teaching culinary arts and I've got different levels of students. 

This can be my intro to culinary arts section. And it would assign it to just those students who are in that section. So it really allows you to control who gets assigned without having to go into each individual assignment and doing it that way. And they will only see it if they have been assigned that. Otherwise, it doesn't. It's not anything that's even on their radar. So again, that's in your module settings, assigned to. 

The other thing that we can do is we can-- we've talked about duplicating the whole module so that you can create your next module with a starting point. But you can also copy this to another course. And so I really like this when I create things in my sandbox that doesn't have students in it. But then I want to copy it to several of my other courses. I can copy two. So if I click on Copy two and say, I'm going to copy this to my webinar course. So I'm going to type in that. 

And these are the two courses that I'm a teacher in. So I'm going to choose my webinar examples course. And it's going to take that whole module and everything that's in it and copy it to my webinar course so that I have it there too. So you don't have to recreate in different courses, you just copy it over. Instead of having to copy over the whole course, you can just copy a module at a time. 

The other thing that you can do is you can send it to a colleague that is in the same Canvas instance. So say, I'm going to send this to Karin because we are team teaching and she has her Canvas course. So now she has access to this module and everything in it, and she can download it to the course that she's teaching. So you can share with colleagues as long as they're in the same instance. 

You can also share to commons. So if you've ever been to commons, this is where it's like the teachers, pay teachers, but it's for free. So if I come into the commons, you can see once it loads. So some of these are full templates. Some of these are modules. These all look like courses. But then as we come down here you can see that this is just a video that was shared to commons. And this is a module. 

So if I'm teaching plate tectonics, I can come in here and see what other people have created already and either use it or download it and modify it for mine. But you have the ability to save your modules to commons, and then use and download other people's modules from commons. So I'm going to come back to my dashboard and come back into my modules course, leveraging modules. 

Here's the other thing that modules allows you to do. This is a really great thing, is you can come in, as long as you've got requirements on items in your module, you can come in here and view progress. So again, I don't have any students in here, but your list of students would be in this box. You can click on a student's name and it will show you what they have completed. 

So you can come in and gauge where your students are as long as you have the requirements set up. So because in this one I have just these three requirements. And somebody-- and maybe I've done the discussion in the assignment, but I haven't done the quiz yet. My teacher can go into view progress, click on my name, and it will show them that I'm in progress for module 1, or I finished module 1 and I'm in progress for module template. So you can view your students progress that way. So that's up here at view progress. 

And then the three dots, again, that's getting you out to commons. And then you also have the ability to publish all your modules or all of the modules and the items. If you've created a whole course and you want to just publish everything all at once, you have the ability to do that up here. 

And that's about it for leveraging modules unless somebody has something else that you use modules for that I haven't thought of I would love to hear it, or if you have any questions. Ideas of how you could use modules, I love modules for like choice boards.