How to make your Canvas Home Page a blog (from scratch)

If you've imported my course template (rather than building from scratch), please see How to replace my blog with your course blog.

Go to 'Pages' on your left <-


Click 'View All Pages'
Click '+ Page'


Title your page 'Homepage'


Hover over the more icon (three vertical dots). Then click the embed icon (a cloud).


Paste the following code into the embed window:
<iframe src="URL" width="100%" height="1000"></iframe>


Replace URL with your website address, e.g.:


You can play with the height value (1000) to adjust how the blog displays.

Save the changes



Make this page your Canvas homepage

Click 'Pages' again on the left <-

Click 'View all Pages'

On the more icon (three vertical dots) next to 'Homepage' select 'Make front page'

Click back to 'Home'

On the far right or at the bottom (depending on your window size) click 'Choose Home Page'


Select 'Pages Front Page' then 'Save'



Click back to 'Home' to see how your blog embeds.





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