KU Educational Technology has made a ready-made template that organizes course content into weekly modules available in the Canvas Commons. You are free to import this template into your course as a starting point for building a course in Canvas. We recommend importing a template before adding or importing your other course content.

To import the template into a course, follow these steps:

Access the Canvas Commons:
Choose the KU Weekly Module Template. It should appear as the first option in Search:
In the template's details, choose Import/Download:
Choose the course/s that you want to add the template to from the list and choose Import into Course:
It may take a few minutes for the template to load in your course. Please refresh your page to see the new content. Access the Modules section to review directions on how to customize the template for your course.

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