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I tried the iframes html previously but the resulting embed included the left-side Canvas menu, which would be even more confusing. Your testing shows that if you narrow the frame width, Canvas will embed the page as if it were (I think) being viewed on a mobile device, so the left-side menu is eliminated.  This is certainly an improvement, but you're right about the "next" and other links leading to more potential confusion.  Keeping the Canvas Assignment submission page brief but adding a link back to the Canvas Page with full instructions is always an option, and I've done that when designing grad-level courses. But with undergraduate courses, I want to make sure students can see all the relevant assignment details without having to click elsewhere.  So I'll probably stick with my current way of doing things for now (Canvas Assignment with full instructions) and hope that my single-sourcing idea catches on.  Thanks for your help.  ... View more

I don't mean only having one assignment in the course for which I can change out the content.  I mean that currently I create a Canvas Assignment for every assignment that is due in the course (so, like 5 major assignments, not counting weekly discussion posts, etc.). Each Canvas Assignment includes detailed instructions for that particular assignment, plus it's (obviously) the place where students submit that assignment.  The issue is that if I create a weekly schedule that includes "Read instructions for Assignment X," I can't do any sort of a reminder for students. If the assignment instructions were a separate page, I could add it to the student "to-do" list, and also list it separately under a "Readings" heading in a Weekly Module (particularly useful if I want them to read the instructions on Monday and submit the assignment on Friday).  It seems like currently there are three potential solutions: Leave things as-is and stop overthinking it. Students will (and do) figure it out. Create a separate page for each assignment that provides instructions and also links to the final assignment submission. The problem with this is that there are now two Canvas documents to keep up to date.  Use Google Docs or Microsoft 365 to create all of my assignment documents. The Google/Microsoft doc is the single-source I can then embed wherever I want to on Canvas. I only have to update one set of instructions to place it anywhere within Canvas. The problem with this is that I'm dealing with a separate app.  If I could embed Canvas content like I can embed Google or Microsoft content, I'd have more flexibility without having to leave Canvas.  Basically I want a way to embed content from one Canvas document into another, and/or create a single-source document within Canvas that can be utilized across multiple instances without creating the need for multiple edits.  Hope this makes things more clear. ... View more