Announcements allow you to communicate with your students about course activities and post interesting course-related topics.

Assignments are any online activity submission that is graded by the instructor. Assignments include Quizzes, graded Discussions, and online submissions (i.e. files, images, text, URLs, etc.) Unique to Canvas.  Assignments are like setting up a new item (dropbox, quiz, or discussion forum) with an automatic link to the Grades page.

The Breadcrumb Navigation is at the top of the Main Body of the page and helps you to how to move up and down in the course hierarchy.

The Calendar makes it easy for students and instructors to see all of the events and assignments going on across all of their courses.

The Chat tool provides synchronous video, audio, and chat communication between by the entire course or any subset of the course roster.

BlackBoard Collaborate Virtual Rooms

Conversations is the messaging tool used instead of email to communicate with a course, a group, an individual student, or a group of students.

The Course Activity Stream shows you all of the recent activity from a single course.

Course Analytics displays number of page views, Assignments, Grades, and student activity in one screen.

The Course Home Page is the first page that students see when they click on "Home" in their Course Navigation. The Course Home Page can be customized to display a custom Page, the Syllabus page, the Assignment page, or the Modules page.