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This course was designed to show off the very best use of Canvas while you learn how to utilize Canvas. Read on for some important points, tips, and tools for being successful!

A Themed Course

We've created a course around the growing theme, and matched our images and icons to the theme. You'll also see that we applied the theme to our naming convention for our Modules. We understand that when you conduct your course, the theme will be your subject area, and your Modules will likely be topic or week names. We wanted to have a little bit of fun with this one!

What Is a Sandbox?

We recommend that all participants have a dedicated course space in Canvas to build and try things out. This space isn't an assigned course that will ever have learners enrolled - it's just a place to play. We frequently refer to these courses as Sandboxes. You have the ability to create a Sandbox course to try things out without affecting your course(s). As part of a future course component, you will create a Course that can serve as a Sandbox and as a place for you to build out usable Course content.

Course Design

This course is designed using Modules as an organizational tool. Once you are in a Module, you can use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate through the content. Inside of each Module we are using Requirements, which are tasks you must complete before moving on to the next section. You will see the requirement for completion next to each item on the Modules page. For Pages, the requirement is "View" and for any of the activities, the requirement is "Submit." As you complete requirements, items will check off with a green check in your Module view, so you can easily tell where you left off.

As you move through these Modules, we strongly encourage you to have two Canvas tabs open: one for this Growing With Canvas Course and one for you to work in your own Courses based on the information presented. If you can do so on multiple monitors, that is even better!

Let's get started! Click the Next button in the bottom right-hand corner to proceed.