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Hi  @melissawetherby , Our institution transitioned from Moodle to Canvas over summer 2015, and in general, faculty have been very pleased when comparing Canvas to Moodle. I've made a "Moodle to Canvas Orientation" that I've shared in Canvas Commons if you search those terms. Its audience is faculty and in many locations I make comparisons to Moodle that might be helpful. One strategy that we used when helping faculty build courses was to set their modules page as the course homepage and build that way. If you're importing content from Moodle, it will automatically recognize the modular format and set the course that way anyhow. Starting in the modules to add items gave them a familiar framework and then we can point out that there are other ways to add and access those items through the navigation tabs in the course. They can then build from that to use front pages, etc., which many will do. One thing that your faculty might miss is having text or images appear throughout the course modules as they did in Moodle, but we just point faculty to Content Pages in Canvas that they can use to do that, and they seem okay with that. As I mentioned too, many will set up front pages in their courses (including me) to make the course feel a bit more welcoming and then point students to the modules page. Hope this helps and that you're able to find the orientation I've shared in Commons! ... View more

lmsguy , Not sure if this is exactly what you're meaning, but I remember that in Canvas sample course templates, there's a template called "One Program: Multiple Short Courses" -- third down in the list at Sample Course Templates. You're able to download the template, and it looks like courses are set up pretty much as modules with availability/requirement settings. You could just import all of the course material into a single shell and disperse among modules if I'm understanding it correctly. Hope it might help! Josh ... View more

Thanks, Kona. Great suggestions that I'll share with the faculty member. ... View more