How do I edit a course page as a student?

The default setting in Canvas is to restrict editing of pages to instructors only. However, your instructor may allow you to edit a page in your course and contribute content to the page.

If you can edit a page, you can also view the history of a course page.

00:07: How do I edit a course page as a student? 00:10: In course navigation click the pages link 00:14: Pages is designed to open to the front page for the course if there is a front page 00:18: selected. Click the view all pages button to select a page from 00:22: the pages index. 00:25: Click the title of the page. 00:28: Click the edit button. 00:31: Edit the content on the page using the rich content editor or switch to HTML 00:35: view to edit. 00:38: You can notify users that content Has Changed by selecting the notify users 00:42: that this content has changed checkbox. 00:45: Click the save button. 00:47: View your changes. 00:50: This guide covered how to edit a course page as a student.

Open Pages

Open Pages

In Course Navigation, click the Pages link.

View Pages

View Pages

Pages is designed to open to the front page for the course, if there is a front page selected. Click the View All Pages button to select a page from the Pages Index.

Open Page

Click the title of the page.

Edit Page

Edit Page

Click the Edit button.

Note: You will only see the Edit button if you are allowed to edit the page.

Edit Content

Edit the content on the page using the Rich Content Editor [1] or switch to HTML view to edit [2].

 

Save Changes

Save Changes

You can notify users that content has changed by selecting the Notify users that this content has changed checkbox [1]. Click the Save button [2].

View Page

View your changes.