Pages & Rich Content Editor (ESSENTIAL)
Pages
Pages are where you can put content and educational resources that are part of your course but do not necessarily belong in an assignment, or that you want to refer to in multiple assignments. This is a place where you can include text, video, and links to your files. You can even make links to other pages. Canvas keeps the entire history of the page so you can see how it changes over time.
Video
To learn more about creating (and managing) pages take a look at the following video:
To learn more about Pages take a look at the following guides:
- How do I use the Pages Index Page? Links to an external site.
- How do I use Draft State in Pages? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a new page in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I change the name of a page in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I edit a page in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I delete a page in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I delete multiple pages at once? Links to an external site.
- How do I upload a PDF to a page in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I link to other Canvas pages in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I set a Front Page in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I embed a video in a page in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a file link in a page in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I view the history of a page in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I use the immersive reader when viewing a page? Links to an external site.
- How do I add a publication date to a page? Links to an external site.
Rich Content Editor
Canvas has a simple, yet powerful, content editor that is available anytime for creating new content. The Rich Content Editor is used in features that support the editor (Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Pages, Quizzes, or Syllabus).
Although clean and streamlined, the Rich Content Editor is sophisticated enough to support embedding any video content, math formula, and other rich media.
Video
To learn more about the Rich Content Editor take a look at the following video:
To learn more about the New Rich Content Editor take a look at the following guides:
- How do I access the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I add and modify text in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I use the menubar in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I insert a table using the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I use the HTML view in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I create hyperlinks to external URLs in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I configure link options? Links to an external site.
- How do I create hyperlinks to course or group content in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I create hyperlinks to course, group, and user files in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I edit and remove hyperlinks in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I upload and embed an image in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I embed images from Canvas into the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I manage alt text and display options for images embedded in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I upload and embed a media file from my computer in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I record media using the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I upload and embed media from an external source in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I embed media files from Canvas into the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I add captions to new or uploaded videos in the New Rich Content Editor in Canvas as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I view captions in a video in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I manage video options in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I upload a document in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I embed documents from Canvas in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I select content from an external app in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I use the Math Editor in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I link to a YouTube video in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I use the Accessibility Checker in the New Rich Content Editor as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I use Markdown in the Rich Content Editor?
Learn more about Google Drive in the Rich Content Editor in the following guide:
NB: Everyone at the VU has a VU Google account (your account name is your VU or ACTA email address). Always make sure you are using your VU Google account - and not your personal account - when using Google Drive in Canvas. Click here for a step by step instruction on how to do this.
NB: The Google Drive tool might be disabled (i.e. not visible) for your course, and you might have to enable the tool using the Course Settings > Navigation function in your course. For more information see: Course Navigation (ESSENTIAL).