Designing Your Course in Canvas
Learn more about designing your course using the tools within Canvas.
As you go through designing your course, you will want to keep some things in mind about design and accessibility. The following checklists, provided by Canvas, are a great starting point to begin and to use to re-design courses.
Begin by addressing the one star items and then move to the more advanced items.
View more accessibility resources in Canvas.
D2L Brightspace and Canvas offer similar core features for creating courses, delivering content, assessing students, grading, and communicating, though with some different names and workflows. Knowing the direct equivalents makes transitioning from D2L to Canvas much easier. Here’s a concise tool comparison based on common mappings from university migration guides.
D2L to Canvas Tool Comparison
