Organizing a Course with Canvas Modules

Canvas (or Quercus, if you are at the UofT) provides a very flexible method for organizing course content: modules. Every module has a heading and groups several items (e.g., links to pages, quizzes, assignments, …) together. You can further organize these items using indentation and subheadings. But how many modules should you create? And what should go in each module? In this post, I describe my experience trying a few different approaches and discuss the trade-offs between them....