Problem with 2 Home Pages

[soniamaga]

I imported a Home Page to an existing Sandbox course in which I had already set up a Home Page and want to keep. The imported page I would like to use as a weekly agenda, and I renamed it as such. When I click on "All Pages", I can see it, and I clicked "publish" to all the pages there. However, I can't access it to move to the Modules is only a template at this point which I haven't yet populated)

What steps should I follow?

[kmeeusen · Accepted solution]

Hi  @soniamaga  Welcome to the Canvas Community!

If I understand correctly what you are asking, you have imported a page that you want to use in your modules as a weekly agenda in each module. Correct? If so, then I assume that the content in the page will change with every module, and that means you will need to make copies of the page, one for each module, then appropriately name them like: Week One Agenda, Week Two Agenda, etc. When you duplicate the page, Canvas will give it the same name as the original but append "copy 1", "Copy 2", "Copy 3" etc. to each title. Looks something like this on your Pages Index...........

You can edit the titles appropriately from your Pages index, or when you load them into each module.  The following guides will help you through the process.

• How do I duplicate a page in a course?  
• How do I edit a page in a course?  
• How do I add course content as module items? 

I do something similar in my own courses, and have created many page templates for that purpose, and I also use my Module's Introduction page (similar to your "Agenda" as the new Front page in my courses each week. Since a course can only have a single Front Page, I simply go in each week and designate my Module Intro to be my new Front Page https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-26409-how-do-i-set-a-front-page-in-a-course 

Kelley

[James]

 @soniamaga  

I read your question differently than Kelley does, although we both agree about adding content to a module. To me, it seemed like the first part was just explanatory and that the issue was at the end. I didn't see anything about duplicating pages, but there appears to be a word or two missing in the last sentence. There is a closing parentheses without an opening one so I'm not sure what is parenthetical and what the main issue is.

I can't access it to move to the Modules is only a template at this point which I haven't yet populated)

If your question is about how to work with modules, then here are some lessons from the Modules section of the Canvas Instructor Guide. There are a lot of other lessons there about modules. I didn't want to duplicate the entire list.

• How do I add a module?  
• How do I add course content as module items? 
• How do I duplicate a module?  [ since you mentioned templates ]

I will admit that I may have it completely wrong, though. Content does not have to be published in order to be added to modules so I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. Kelley's answer is a good answer and a really nifty trick and I hope he was able to help you. I just didn't read the question the same way.