Unlike Google Classroom, you have a lot more freedom in Canvas to make your classes look exactly how you want. With that being said, for a lot of us, that means staring at a blank "canvas" for far too long, trying to decide how we want our class set up. Now that Google Documents and Slides are so easily embedded into a Canvas Page, we can design, beautify, and make our pages much more functional for our students as easy as making a Google Doc. Watch my video below to see how to do this.
I also have worked with Canvas and got some best practice tutorials from them to help us make our courses more engaging and formatted more effectively for students and ourselves.
Check out the video links and slides below. Each one is a full tutorial created by our contact at Canvas to show us ways to improve our Canvas courses:
Best Practices for Course Design
Creating an Engaging Learning Environment for Canvas
Increasing Collaboration in Canvas
