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Course building
Building & maintaining your courses
Clear, higher-ed-focused training for the learning management systems used across Kansas colleges and universities. Pick your platform to get started.
Choose your platform
Two systems, one set of good habits
Whatever your institution runs, the fundamentals are the same: organize content so students can find it, build assessments that are fair and clear, keep your gradebook honest, and design for accessibility from the start. Choose your platform below.
Blackboard
Build, structure, assess, and maintain a well-designed, accessible course in Blackboard. Full course with standalone guides and a certificate.
Canvas
Build, structure, assess, and maintain a well-designed, accessible course in Canvas. Full course with standalone guides and a certificate.
What every track covers
The course-building essentials
Set up & structure
Course menu, content areas or modules, your syllabus, and a layout students can navigate.
Assess & grade
Assignments, tests, rubrics, and a gradebook that stays accurate and transparent.
Engage & maintain
Discussions, announcements, copying content between terms, and student preview.
Accessibility runs through all of it
Each platform track flags the accessibility step at every stage (headings, alt text, captions, and link text), so your course is usable by every student from day one. For deeper guidance, visit the accessibility library.