 When we instructors, as humans, think about an assignment, we think of it as something, anything, that we want students to do. We might want them to write a paper, evaluate an article, read part of the book, watch a video, or read something on a website. Canvas has a much more strict definition of what an assignment is. It's something for students to turn in for the instructor to grade. That applies to writing a paper or evaluating an article, both of which we want to grade, but not to reading the book, watching a video, or reading a website. For those, Canvas uses the term page to mean something for the students' information that isn't going to be graded. Time for a quick knowledge check. If you wanted to put this content into a course, would it be an assignment or a page? Pause the video and give it some thought. It's a page. There's nothing in here that suggests that the student has to send you anything. All of this is for their information only. Now this one. Is it an assignment or a page? Pause the video again and give it some thought. This one is an assignment. The student is being asked to do something and turn it in, presumably, to be graded. Okay, you might be thinking, but is it really that big of a difference? Why not make everything an assignment? First, when you create a Canvas assignment, you have to set a number of points. Students will get confused if they see assignments that are worth zero points, and they might even skip over them. When you go to the gradebook, you'll have some assignments that really do need to be graded, but they're hidden among all the things that don't need it. Making everything an assignment is bad for your students, and it's bad for you. The moral of the story? When you add content to a course, put it in the correct category. Use pages for things that inform. Use assignments for things that need grading.