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](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/002/751/619/original/612ffd18-f97e-41dc-8a16-bf5cf4b56feb.png)
In Course Navigation, click the Pages link.
View Pages
![View Pages](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/001/252/360/original/64bd7ae2-0db5-4e45-a29d-4383e8b46ed7.png)
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.
Edit Page
![Edit Page](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/001/252/358/original/e685f6c5-a1eb-41e9-bd36-bd31d4534914.png)
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](https://media.screensteps.com/image_assets/assets/000/756/565/original/711293e6-d7ad-4a14-ba33-502c2e8a59b2.png)
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].