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From the Settings page in your course, you can view and edit many course details, as well as perform general set-up for your course (such as importing course content).
The landing page for course Settings is the "Course Details" tab, but you can navigate to other settings pages from the tabs at the top (more on those below).
Walkthroughs from the Canvas Guides:
Additionally, at the bottom of the Settings page you will a link that says "more options" - when you click it, additional options for your course will appear that you can check or uncheck depending on your needs. Here are some examples:
From Canvas: "You can view a course the same way that your students view your course through Student View. Enabling Student View creates a Test Student in your course. You can also activate Student View in your Course Settings.
To see the student's perspective on Canvas, use Student View to view the course, post and reply to discussions, submit assignments, view grades, view people, view pages, view the syllabus, view quizzes, view the calendar, and view the scheduler (if enabled)."
From Canvas: "As an instructor, you can verify all external links throughout your course to ensure they are valid. You can check these links using the course link validator, which searches through course content and returns invalid or unresponsive external links in both published and unpublished content. However, please note that some links flagged as unresponsive are inaccessible by Canvas servers and will still work for students."
From Canvas: "The Course Import Tool makes it easy to extract course content, assignments, and quizzes from previous terms and quickly import them into existing courses. The same tool is used to import course materials from different Learning Management Systems. Some limitations apply to course imports."
You can use the course import tool to copy content from one Canvas course to another (for example, from your Fall 2019 shell to your Fall 2020 shell for a course you have taught before), and you can also use it to import content from a course export package (for example, import course content from a course taught at another institution that you previously exported). When importing content from a past Canvas course, you can choose whether to import all content or select specific content to import, and whether (and how) to adjust due dates as course content is imported.
From Canvas: "You can export a Canvas course to give to someone in another Canvas account, to upload to another institution's account at a later date, or to create a copy as a backup on your local computer. You can import an export file into Canvas at any time."
You can use the Settings Navigation page to control your course navigation menu. From Canvas: "As an instructor, you can control which links appear in Course Navigation. Canvas includes a set of default Course Navigation links that are shown by default and cannot be renamed. Depending on your course configuration, other links may be available and may be customizable."
Here is a walkthrough from Canvas on managing course navigation links.
You can enable your Guilford College Zoom integration from your Settings Navigation page: you can read instructions on how to do this in the library's guide to Zoom.
From the course Sections page, you can:
From Canvas: "The App Center is your gateway to powerful teaching tools that are easily integrated into a Canvas Course." From the Apps page, you can install course integrations, such as any publisher or textbook content with Canvas integration that you may be using in your course.
From Canvas: "Canvas is continually creating new features to improve your experience. The majority of improvements will be made available as part of our regular release cycle. However, some features may change the workflow for common activities in Canvas during your current term. Because we want you to be able to learn about these features at your own pace, they’ll be placed in your Course Settings as a Feature Option. Feature Options allow you to choose when you want to enable the new feature for your course."