 To understand how Canvas courses are structured, let's take a look at how you teach a course without computers. You might have materials sorted into folders by chapter, by week of the semester, or by topic. Inside each folder you have handouts, assignments for students to complete and turn into you for grading, and quizzes. Canvas courses follow this same structure. You organize your material into modules. Like folders, these are containers for handouts, which Canvas calls pages, assignments, and quizzes, which are also the terms that Canvas uses. In a course without computers, you have a grade book to record students' scores. Canvas also has a grade book where you can keep track of a student's progress. Canvas also gives you the ability to make announcements to all your students, set up discussion forums, which you can use as part of the student's grade, if you wish, and use files in your course materials. You can also make the files available for students to download and use. And that's the overview of the structure of a Canvas course. In other videos, we'll go into Canvas and actually create a course that mirrors these structures.