Files can house course files, assignments, syllabi, readings, other documents, profile pictures, and user-specific files. Watch video

Canvas Guide: What are Files?
Illinois State University Help Articles:

• Upload and Manage Files in Canvas Files
• Uploading SCORM Files into Canvas
• Canvas Course File Storage Quota

You can use your Illinois State OneDrive cloud storage to host large files and share them with your students. 

Illinois State University Help Article: Adding OneDrive Content in Canvas

Modules are designed to organize content and help control the flow of the course. Each module can contain files, discussions, assignments, quizzes, and other learning materials. Watch video

Canvas Guide: What are Modules?

As an instructor, you can add modules, add items to a module, and manage module settings. You can also reorder all modules and module items.

Canvas Guide: How do I use the Modules Index Page?

With modules, you are essentially creating a one-directional linear flow of what you would like your students to do. Once you create modules, you can add content items, set prerequisites, and add requirements.

Canvas Guide: How do I add a module?

You can move or reorder entire modules after you’ve created them. You can manually drag and drop the module, or you can use the Move To option. You can also move or reorder module items.

Canvas Guide: How do I move or reorder a module?

As an instructor, you can publish or unpublish a module in a course. Unpublished modules are invisible to students.

Canvas Guide: How do I publish or unpublish a module as an instructor?

You can add new or existing content items in Canvas to a module. You can also add an item to multiple modules or multiple iterations of an item to one module.

Canvas Guide: How do I add course content as module items?

You can add an existing quiz or create a new quiz in a course module.

Canvas Guide: How do I add a quiz as a module item?

When you set a module prerequisite, the module is locked until a student completes the required items.

Canvas Guide: How do I add prerequisites to a module?

When you add requirements to a module, students must complete the defined requirements within the module before the module will be marked complete.

Canvas Guide: How do I add requirements to a module?

As an instructor, you can copy a module in a course directly into any active course in which you are enrolled. You can also send a module to other instructors at your institution as well as copy individual module items to other courses.

Canvas Guide: How do I copy a module to another course?

Pages store content and educational resources that are part of a course or group but don’t necessarily belong in an assignment. Pages can include text, video, links to files, and other course or group content. Watch video

Canvas Guide: What are Pages?

You can view all your pages in your course on the Pages Index Page. As an instructor, you can add new pages, edit pages, and remove pages.

Canvas Guide: How do I use the Pages Index Page?

Instructors can publish or unpublish a page in a course. Unpublished content is invisible to students.

Canvas Guide: How do I publish or unpublish a page as an instructor?

Within a page, you can insert links to other Canvas pages within the same course.

Canvas Guide: How do I create hyperlinks to course or group content in the Rich Content Editor?  

You can copy individual pages in one course directly into any active course you are enrolled in. You can also send pages to other instructors at your institution. When you copy a page, any assets within that page (images, files, etc.) will be included in your page copy.

Canvas Guide: How do I copy a page to another course?