To make sure your Canvas sandbox is ready for review, make sure the following things have been addressed! These are all things Kona will be checking when she reviews your Sandbox and they apply to traditional, hybrid, and online sandbox courses!!

Publish your course. Your students can’t see your course until the first day of class, but if you haven’t published your course then they won’t be able to access it at all!
Home Page. Unless you have something amazing and wonderful on your course home page, consider making your home page your course Modules. This way it will be the first thing students see when they enter your course and it will cut down on a lot of confusion!
Syllabus. Make sure you are using the most up-to-date version of the master syllabus; this includes removing references to Angel and updating the Online Learning Help Information.
Gradebook set-up. Make sure and set-up your course gradebook. This includes assignment groups (categories), assignments, and making sure to have due dates and points for each assignment.
Navigational Links. Remove unnecessary Navigational Links. Navigational links are the links on the left side of your course page. If you leave too many of them visible to your students you run the risk of students becoming confused and skipping your course content from the Modules and going straight to their quizzes or discussions. We recommend having these links visible to students: Home (default), Modules, Grades, Syllabus, People, & Chat. In addition, if you are using these features then you could add them as well: Announcements, Collaborations, and Conferences.
Grading Scheme. Set a Grading Scheme. If you don’t set a grading scheme then students will only see their percent grade, they will not see a letter grade.

Additional Features

Discussion. Adjust your Global Discussion Settings. If you are using Discussion Forums there is a good chance you do NOT want your students to be able to edit or delete their discussion post or be able to start their own discussion forum (not post, forum!). In addition, you may want your students to be able to attach documents or pictures to their discussion forums.
Quizzes. Publish your Quizzes! Make sure all of your quizzes, exams, etc. have been published, otherwise your students will not have access to them. Publishing your course does not publish your quiz. Also, if you go in and adjust anything on your quizzes, make sure and re-publish them! Quizzes will also not show up in the gradebook until you publish them. If you want to randomize the order of your questions, you need to make sure all questions are in a Question Group.
Assignment Drop Boxes. Make sure your assignment dropboxes are set-up to allow students to submit their assignments online. This is not the default and must be manually set.

For a print version of this checklist, please click and download the following document: Canvas Course Review Checklist.pdf