Page Templates in Canvas

Learn a fast, and efficient way to develop your content by duplicating pre-existing pages to use as a template. Page templates help establish design consistency in your course and saves you time applying styling.

The MIT Canvas Standards (MCS) includes a Content page template containing what you may need such as a header, copy, and footer style. You could also create your own page template adding elements that you use regularly.

To begin creating a page from the template:

1. Create a page to use as a template (or you could stick with the MCS Content template). It’s a good idea to leave this as unpublished.
2. Click Pages on the course navigation menu.
3. Select View all pages, and navigate to the template page.
4. Click the three dots on the right to open the options, choose Duplicate.

5. A new page will be created with ‘Copy’ on the end. It will include all design elements from the original page. It will remain unpublished until you publish the page.
6. Edit the page, add a new name and add your content as desired.

Duplicating pages inside of the Modules

You can use the same method of duplicating a page template directly inside of the module. Working directly inside of modules will save you time adding the page to the module later.

7. Click Modules on the navigation menu.

Click the three dots on the right of the page you want to duplicate to open the options, choose Duplicate.

Follow steps 5 and 6 above.