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BUILD YOUR MODULE:A STEP BY STEP GUIDE

This workshop guide provides you with a step by step overview to build your module. It is based on a series of tasks:

Task 1: Set-up Your Account

Task 2: Build your Home Page (Part 1)

Task 3: Build your Unit Pages

Task 4: Build your Topic Pages

Task 5: Build your Syllabus Page

Task 6: Build your Home Page (Part 2)

Task 7: Create an Assignment

Task 8: Create an Announcement

Task 9: Create an Event

Task 10: Review your Calendar

Canvas Help

Workshop Overview

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https://canvas.kingston.ac.uk/

Use your Kingston staff email and password to log in to Canvas

Getting started: Logging-in

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Canvas introductory video: https://community.canvaslms.com/videos/1095

Getting started: Global Navigation

Account Update your profile, access and control your settings.

Dashboard This is the first page that appears when you log into Canvas. It helps you and your students see what is happening in all your courses.

Courses A list of all Kingston Modules

Calendar Your personal calendar.

Inbox –Send individual messages or group messages to staff/students.

Help – Search for solutions of issues occurring on Canvas.

Commons A repository that enables educators to find, import, and share resources.

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Getting Started: Your Account Task 1: Set-up Your Account

Find out more via the Canvas Community bit.ly/2fXwoDZ

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Create Your Canvas Profile

1. Select Account > Profile

2. Select Edit Profile icon

4. Add your profile picture, biographical text and links to other online profiles such as a personal blog

Getting Started: Your Account

3. Drag your cursor over the picture to add your own profile picture

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2. Explore options to add other email address

3. Explore options to addother web services to your profile

1. Select Settings

Getting Started: Your AccountCreate other Account settings

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1. Select Notifications

Getting Started: Your AccountSet your Notifications

Here you and your students can set notifications preferences. Notifications are customizable at the user level, so what, when, and how students receive notifications on items is a function of how they have set their notification preferences.

Notifications are sent as one of four delivery types: send right away, daily summary, weekly summary, or don't send. If you change a setting, the change is made immediately to your account.

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Access to your module pages can be found via the dashboard. When you log-in to Canvas this is the first page you will see.

1. Select your module title to start building your module!

Getting Started: Your AccountAccess Your Module

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1. Select Settings in the sidebar

Canvas enables you to view your module in two views. The Instructor View is where you can edit your module. The Student View enables you to see what your students will see.

2. Select Student view to see what the student sees

Getting Started: Settings Instructor and Student View

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Getting Started: Settings Access your Canvas profile in the Student View

Now that you have created your Profile, have a look at it in the Student view. Your students can also create their own profile pages, which will appear in the same list above.

2. Select Peoplefrom the Sidebar.

1. Select Student view via the Settingstab.

3. Select your name to view your profile.

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Getting Started: Uploading FilesAdd your materials to your Canvas module

There are a number of ways to upload text, audio and other multimedia materials to Canvas. You can store these in the Files area. File space is however limited in Canvas itself (500MB). So it is highly recommended that you use My Data Box, Kingston University's cloud storage system which is integrated into Canvas making things very easy to insert.

Option 1: Adding a limited number of materials via Files:

1. Once you have accessed your Module via the Dashboard, select Files from the sidebar

2. Select Upload to add a selection of media. Note: there will be a range of pre-populated items in here already linked to the editable templates you will use to build your module. Do not delete any of these pages. If redundant, just leave unpublished as you might need them again.

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Getting Started: Uploading FilesAdd your materials to your Canvas module

RecommendedOption 2: Adding a limited number of materials via Box:

To access your account go to kingston.box.com and select 'Continue' under the 'Part of Kingston University?' heading.

Once logged-in, you can upload any materials relevant for your Canvas module, directly to the cloud.

Box is connected to Canvas so you can further upload materials on Box directly to Canvas. This will be demonstrated later on in this step-by-step guide 14

Building Your Module Task 2: Build Your Home Page Part 1

Find out more about your template pages via Welcome to Canvas at Kingston Community:

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Creating Your Home Page: Access your Home Page

1. Go to the Dashboard and select your module title

2. Select Pages

4. A list of editable pages will appear, with different Home Page options. Your Home Page has been set to Home Page with extras.

3. Select View all pages

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Creating Your Home Page: Edit your Home Page

1. Select Edit

When you select Edit, your chosen page will significantly change in its page design - this is part of the Instructor view for editing, the actual Student view will be the same as the screen shot above.

2. Populate your Homepage with relevant information from your Module

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Creating Your Home Page: Insert your Topic Page titles

Your Home Page includes links to up to 6 Topic Pages you have created. Later on this workbook will show how to create links to specific Topic Pages

3. Enter the title of the individual Topics you have created for your module

Add additional rows in the table using the tab tile on your keyboard.

Delete rows by right clicking with your mouse and selecting Delete

Save your work by selecting Save and Publish. You can return to your Home Page later once you have completed the next steps in the workbook

If you need to re-set your Home Page at any point use the step by step guide on the Welcome to Canvas pages: http://bit.ly/2g6JbF4 18

Building Your Module Task 3: Build Your Unit Pages


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Build Your Units: Access your Unit Pages

In order to start building your module, begin by editing your Unit pages.


2. Select Pages 3. Select View all pages

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4. A list of editable pages will appear, select a Unit Page to open and edit

Build Your Units: Edit text in your Unit Pages

1. Select Edit

When you select Edit, the page will significantly change in its page design - this is part of the Instructor view for editing, the actual Student view will be the same as the screen shot above.

2. Rename your Unit page and add an introduction by typing directly into the page.

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Building Your Units: Publish your Pages

Each time you edit a page, you have the option to Save or Save and Publish. By selecting Save and Publish, you create a ‘link’. This link enables you to subsequently link pages which is of central importance to building your Canvas module using the templates.

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On the Unit page, insert some Activities with a set of instructions of how to engage with learning and resources.

Build Your Units: Create Activity Headings in your Unit Page

In each Unit page you will have access by default to a series of Activity Headings

You can also delete headings by selecting a heading and, right clicking and selecting Delete.

You can add new headings using the file navigation menu under the Images tab.

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Building Your Units: Create Activities in your Unit Page -Insert Images

Once you have added text, you can insert photographs and other visual documents under your activity headers.

Select the Images option in the sidebar and insert an image from your Course Files within Canvas

Alternatively, you can directly upload image documents stored on a drive

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Building Your Units: Create Activities in your Unit Page -Insert Links to documents and other media

You can link to other media Files under your activity headers.

Option 3: Select the Files tab and directly upload a file to be associated with the text.

1. Under the relevant heading, type in some text as a placeholder for the link and highlight it.

Option 1: Select the Box icon in the text editor insert a link to your documents and files within Box.

Option 2: Select the Files tab in the sidebar to insert a link to your Course Files within Canvas

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Building Your Units: Create Activities in Your Unit Page -Insert Links to External Resources

You can insert Links to external resources such as websites and web-based documents under your activity headers.

1. Under the relevant heading, type in some text as a placeholder for the link and highlight it.

2. Select the link icon in the text editor

3. Add the web address of the link in the text box

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Building Your Units: Create Activities in your Unit Page -Display multimedia

You can insert audio and video media to be viewed directly in the Unit Page under your activity headers. In the Instructor view, for video, you may not see the actual image but a grey area. In the Student view, the video start image will be shown.

1. Under a relevant heading, type in some text to explain to your students how you would like them to engage with the video media. Then, place the cursor in the space where you would like the video to appear.

2. Option 1. Select the YouTube link where you can search and select the video you would like to insert.

Option 2. Select the Insert Audio or Video and you can search and select the audio or video you would like to insert. This can be uploaded from your Course Files or drive.

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Now that you have started to build your Unit Page, have a look at it in the Student view.


You can leave Student view at any time by selecting the Leave link at the bottom of the page

Building Your Units: Review your Unit Page in the Student View

3. Select the Unit page you have started to build to view how your student will see it

2. Select Pagesfrom the sidebar followed by View all pages

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1. Under your selected Course, select the Discussions tab then + Discussion

2. Decide on and complete the range of the Discussion Board options

Building Your Units: Create a Discussion Board

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Building Your Units: Create Activities in Your Unit Page -Insert Links to Your Discussion Board

1. Return to your Unit Page via the Pages tab in the sidebar. Select View all pages and select the relevant Unit Page.

3. Insert an appropriate Activity Header (i.e. Discuss) from the Images tab (as shown previously)

2. Then select Edit to work on the page in Instructor view. You will then return to the editable Unit Page:

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Building Your Units: Create Activities in Your Unit Page -Insert Links to Your Discussion Board

5. Next, write some placeholder text where you can provide a link to the Discussion Board and highlight it

6. Select the Links tab in the sidebar, and select the Discussion Board you wish to link to via the header to Discussions

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1. Select Quizzes from the sidebar

2. Select + Quiz

3. Name your Quiz and give it a short description

Building Your Units: Create a Quiz

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5. Select your different Quiz options based on your preferences

4. Set the Quiz type


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6. Add your Quiz questions by selecting the tab next to Details, then select New Question


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7. Select your Quiz question type

8. Add your answers

Building Your Units: Create Activities in Your Unit Page -Insert Links to Your Quiz

1. Return to your Unit Page via the Pages tab in the sidebar. Select View all pages and select the relevant Unit Page.

3. Insert an appropriate Activity Header (i.e. Quiz ) from the Images tab (as shown previously)

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Building Your Units: Create Activities in Your Unit Page -Insert Links to Your Quiz

5. Next, write some placeholder text where you can provide a link to the Quiz and highlight it

6. Select the Links tab in the sidebar, and select the Quiz to link to via the header Quizzes.

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Now that you have added other activities using Canvas, have another look at your Unit Page in the Student view.



Building Your Units: Review your Unit Page in the Student View

3. Select the Unit page you have started to build to view how your student will see it


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Build Your Module Task 4: Create your Topic Pages

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Building Your Topic Pages: Access your Topic Pages

Next, move on to your Topic Pages


2. Select Pages

4. A list of editable pages will appear, select a Module Topic Page to open and edit

3. Select View all pages

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Building Your Topic Pages: Edit your Topic Pages

1. Select Edit

When you select Edit, the page will significantly change in its page design - this is part of the Instructor view for editing, the actual Student view will be the same as the screen shot above.

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Building Your Topic Pages: Create links to Units in your Topic Pages

Topic Pages help students understand the narrative of what they will engage with in terms of content and activities in your module, including when they engage with activities in your Unit Pages in Canvas.

Topic Pages include links to the Units you have already created and links to your Unit Pages can be added in the table.

1. Enter the title of the individual unit pages you have created.



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Building Your Topic Pages: Create links to Units in your Topic Pages

2. Once the table has been populated with the your Unit Page titles, create the link by highlighting the text

4. The text will then change colour indicating that the link has been made.

3. Then, add the link to the Unit Page by selecting its title from the sidebar under Wiki Pages

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Now that you have edited a Topic Page, have a look at it in the Student view.



Building Your Topic Pages: Review your Topic Page in the Student View

3. Select the Topic page you have started to build to view how your student will see it


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Building Your Module Task 5: Create Your Syllabus Page

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Building Your Syllabus Page: Access your Syllabus Page

Next, move on to your Syllabus Page

1. Go the Dashboard and select your module title

2. Select Syllabus

3. An editable Syllabus Page will appear, select Edit to exit enter into the edit view

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Building Your Syllabus Page: Edit your Syllabus Page

2. Add an relevant text under the headers by typing directly into the page.

3. Populate your module Matrix by typing directly into the table.

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4.Under Units, write the title of the Unit Pages you have created for your module.

5. Once the table has been populated with the your Unit Page titles, create the link by highlighting the text

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6. Then, add the link to the Unit Page by selecting its title from the sidebar under Wiki Pages

7. The text will then change colour indicating that the link has been made.

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Have look at your Syllabus Page in the Student view.



Build Your Syllabus: Reviewing your Syllabus Page in the Student View

2. Select Syllabus from the sidebar

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Building Your Module Task 6: Create Your Home Page Part 2

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Creating Your Home Page: Insert links to your Topic Pages

1. Now that the table has been populated with the your Topic Page titles, create the link by highlighting the text

2. Then, add the link to the Topic Page you have created by selecting its title from the sidebar under Wiki Pages

Save your hard work!

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1. Select settings from the sidebar

2. Select Apps

Building Your Home Page with extras: Display Twitter Feed (optional)

2. Select Apps

4. Select Twitter and when promoted select Add App

3. Type Twitter in the search engine

The Twitter App will then be added to the text editor for its integration into your Home Page

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1. Select settings from the sidebar

2. Select Apps


2. Select Apps

4. Select Twitter and when promoted select Add App

3. Type Twitter in the search engine

The Twitter App will then be added to the text editor for its integration into your Home Page

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5. Return to your Home Page


6. Select Edit

7. Place your cursor in the within the box so it is highlighted

8. Select the Twitter icon from the editor options

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9. Fill out your details as promoted and select Preview

10. Select Embed to insert the feed in your Home Page (or Modify to correct if required)

Once inserted, the box content will remain Grey. Select Save to view your Twitter feed in your Home Page

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Building Your Home Page with extras: Display video media (optional)

You can insert an introductory welcome video to be vieweddirectly in the Home Page. In the Instructor view, for video, you may not see the actual image but a grey area. In the Student view, the video start image will be shown.

1. Place the cursor in the space where you would like the video to appear.

2. Option 1 Select the YouTube icon where you can search for a link to your own short video (providing it has an embed video code)

2. Option 2 Select the Film Reel icon to directly record a message

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Building Your Home Page: Insert module Instructor profiles

2. Select the Imagesoption in the sidebar and double click on a profile picture from your Course Files within Canvas

1. Move your cursor over the profile picture to highlight it

3. Alternatively, you can directly upload a profile picture stored on a drive

4. Also in the same text box, edit the text using descriptors provided

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Viewing Page History

As you build your module pages, you may need to access previous versions, you can do this via the View page history tab. The tab is located at the top of your pages

1. Select View Page history

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Viewing Page History

2. Canvas will show you a list of all the revisions which have taken place. To open a prior version of your page, click the date you want to access.

3, Select the Restore this revision link. Canvas will restore the prior version to the most recent revision

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Building Your Module Task 6: Create an Assignment

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In Canvas, Assignment include Quizzes with a particular timeframe, graded Discussions, other graded and ungraded activities … and assessment which will be covered in the future workshop

Any Assignment you create and publish on the Assignments page will automatically show up in the Grades, Calendar, and Syllabus features so students can view them.

Building Your Module Create an Assignment


2. Select Assignments

3. Select + Assignment

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4. Give the Assignment a name (i.e. Weekly Quiz) and add a description explaining to your students how they should engage with the activity

5. You also insert Activity Headers (as used on your Unit Pages), in the case of a Quiz, the Quiz Activity Header is used here. Insert the Header as before using the Images tab in the sidebar. 62


6. Add some placeholder text to indicate where the students should click to access the Assignment and highlight it

7. Then, create the link to the Quiz by selecting using the link under the Quizzes header in the sidebar.

The same procedure can be followed for a Discussion board or any other activity you would like to schedule with your

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8. Finally, scroll down the page to complete the different options you would like to make available for the assignment

If you have scheduled your Assignment for a specific time period, it will automatically appear in your Canvas Calendar. You can view it by selecting Calendar from the sidebar: 64

Building Your Module Task 7: Create an Announcement

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In Canvas, you can also create an Announcement Announcements are used to communicate with students about the logistics of your module. As soon as you have created an Announcement, Canvas takes care of notifying students according to their preferred Notification Preferences.

Building Your Module Access Announcements


2. Select Announcements

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1. Give your Announcement a tile

2. Add text by typing directly into the page

Here are some sample Announcements:

Building Your Module Create an Announcement

3. Create links to other documents and pages as you have done previously with other pages.

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1. Select Notifications

Building Your Module Review your Notifications

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Building Your Module Task 8: Create an Event

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Building Your Module Create an Event in your Calendar

1. Access your Calendar from the Global Navigation bar

2. Select the date for your Event by double-clicking on the relevant tile

3. In the pop-up window, add the details of the Event. Once created, the Event will show up in your and your students' Calendars. 70

Building Your Module Task 9: Review your Calendar

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Building Your Module Review your Calendar

Your Canvas Calendar holds information about all scheduled activities.

Your different modules will be assigned different colours.

You can view your scheduled activities by Day, Week, Month or Agenda (lists all scheduled activities).

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Building Your Module Getting help and guidance

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Building Your Module Accessibility

1. Select Account then Settings

Canvas offers some accessibility options for viewing Canvas pages.

2. Select High Contrast UI (User Interface)

3. Return to your Home Page to see enhanced colour contrast features in text, buttons, etc., making those items more distinct and easier to identify

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Building Your Module Canvas help and advice

Staff and students have access to help and guidance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Many questions can be easily answered as well as further guidance can be found via the Help icon in the Global Navigation tab

If you have a specific question you would like to direct to a member of your Canvas Faculty team, contact your Faculty Champion or alternatively, send an email via the CHERP TEL team, stating the name of your Faculty in the subject line: [email protected]

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Syllabus Syllabus communicates the module’s aims, the learning outcomes and expectations. Syllabus is in the Module Descriptor.

Topics Topics are the different aspects of the module content that are grouped together to organise and control the flow of the module. Topics will enable the students to structure their understanding of the module syllabus. Topics can be developed from the Aims and Learning Outcomes of the module.

Units Units are containers of activities. Activities are segments of learning that are typically built with a set of instructions of how to engage with resources.

Activities Activities are segments of learning that are typically built with a set of instructions to communicate how to engage with resources. Activities are structured to absorb new information, practice a new skill, or interact with a group to solve a problem. Activities might be, for example, reading an article, watching a video, reflecting on a field trip, taking part in discussions or attempting a quiz.

The difference between Activities and Resources An activity has a narrative that justifies how, when and why students can engage with the given resource. An activity provides students with opportunities to deepen their learning by applying concepts and articulating new knowledge. Activities can provide the instructor feedback about the students’ learning. A link to a resource without a narrative is less meaningful to the student and can be confusing.

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Glossary of Kingston Canvas terms

We will contact you soon to see how we can help you further in preparing your Canvas module. You will be provided with a specific faculty contact person, they will arrange to meet you frequently and work with you to ensure that your module in Canvas is developing and will be ready for the new term. Here is a summary of the building activities to prioritise:

Home Page with Topics and contact details

Syllabus Page with Learning Outcomes and Assignments

Assessment and Feedback Page

3 Assignments

Topics with minimum 2 - 3 Units

At least one Activity per Unit

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