Hello Casey Troutman and welcome to the Canvas Community!
All admin's were exactly where you are at one time. There are tons of resources in the community for you and I recommend you join the GroupInstructional Designers
I've designed a page for my faculty to download "buttons" for their Homepage. These buttons take our students through each week (Higher Ed), the syllabus, Discussions, Library, etc.
Here are some other helpful links to review:
Blog Post created by Chris Long on May 22, 2015: Home Sweet Homepages without Tables
Blog Post created by Stefanie Sanders on Apr 16, 2015 Creating an inviting course home page
Free instructional design course: learn to develop OERs
K-12 Home Pages – examples please
And here's the newest from Lily Philips 2020 Course Design Essentials: Event Launch & Giveaway
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