When you add requirements to a unit, students must complete the defined requirements within the unit before the unitwill be marked complete. You can require students to complete all requirements in the unit, or have them choose one item to fulfill a specific requirement.

Note that you cannot add requirements until you have added unit items: you can add content items such as assignment types, pages, and files; text headers; external tools; and external URLs.

You can choose to allow students to complete requirements in any order, or you can require them to move through the unit sequentially. A requirement to move through unit items sequentially relates to the order items are listed on the unit page, not the order displayed in unit Settings. If you have multiple iterations of an unit item, you can set different requirements for each item.

Unit requirements are displayed in the order that they exist as unit items. You may need to reorder unit items so that the requirements are set correctly.

Depending on the unit item type, requirements include up to five options:

View the item: Students must view the item.
Mark as done: Students must mark the assignment or page as done before they can progress to the next item. This option also synchronizes with the student List View Dashboard and completes the item for the student. However, this behavior is only supported when the item with this requirement is located in one unit. Adding the same item within multiple unit is not supported.
Contribute to the page: Students must post a reply to a non-graded discussion or contribute content to a page (make sure students are allowed to edit pages in the module).
Submit the assignment: Students must submit an assignment, post a reply to a graded discussion, or submit a quiz. (Canvas does not allow you to manually enter a grade to fulfill this requirement; a submission must be made by the student.)
Score at least: Students must meet a minimum submission score. With this option, an additional field appears where you can enter the minimum score that students must earn. This option is available for all graded assignment types.

You can also set up prerequisite units and require students to complete each unit in order.

Find Unit

On your module menu, click on Units.

Locate the name of the unit and click the Options icon [1]. Select the Edit link [2].

Click the Add Requirement link.

Add Requirement Type

When adding requirements, you can choose whether to allow students to complete all requirements, or one of a series of requirements.

By default, units selects the all requirements option. If you want to require students to complete all requirements in the unit, this setting has already been selected for you.

Require Sequential Order

As part of completing all requirements, if you want to require students to complete each unit item in order, click the Students must move through requirements in sequential order checkbox.

Set One Requirement

If you would rather require students to complete only one requirement, click the Student must complete one of these requirements radio button.

Set Item Requirements

By default, units populates the first requirement as the first item in the unit [1]. To select a different unit item, click the item menu. For the unit item, click the requirement menu [2].

To add additional requirements, click the Add Requirement button [1].

To remove a requirement, click the Remove icon [2].

Note: If you have included a content item in the same unit multiple times, you can set different requirements for each item.

Save

Once you have added all your items, hit update unit

View Requirements

View the unit requirement type [1] and the item requirements [2] for the unit.

You can click on Units to look through the other helpful guides on how to use Canvas discussions, quizzes, conferences (Big Blue Button), Panopto for pre-recording lecture content and Microsoft Teams to support your teaching.