1. Color My Canvas First: An example from my current course.
Canvas: Color Tagging Each Unit
Word: Styles & Fonts
Color Branding
Color Coding

2. 1. Canvas: Color tag each unit
A Sample
Syllabus: Large Table Each tile is a hyperlink
Each Unit: Mini Table
Accent Bars
Each colored according to the unit color. Shown in each unit

3. 2. Colors in Word Principle: Use same style for all Word documents
Sample Page Styles in Microsoft Word:

4. Tip: Adding a light page color makes graphics “pop.”

5. Tip: Learn how to create and apply “Styles” in Word
See the Styles menu at the Word Home tab.
Click on “Change Styles” and then “Style Set” to see a menu of many available styles.
You can create your own style set.
Search under “Help” for how to create your own.

6. 3. Color Branding What’s Branding?
For all your courses, use the same fonts, heading colors, and background color.
(All lectures, course guidelines, web pages, PowerPoint slides and any other multi-page documents.) 
Why
Unexpected colors, fonts, and layouts distract the viewer.
A consistent brand keeps students focused on content.
Students feel at home taking another course from you.
How
Word: Create a template for all documents.
Canvas: Create a template for all units.
Tip: In Canvas, create a "Module 9“ to house templates. Keep it “unpublished.” Then copy, paste, and modify for insertion into units 1-8.

7. 4. Color Coding In Canvas, use the table function for
Colored Unit Tiles
Large: in the Syllabus
Mini: in each unit
Colored Accent Bars
Colored Canvas “Pages”

8. Create your personal “Brand Table.”
A SAMPLE
UNIT
Brand Color
HTML
RGB 1
#386eff
(56, 110, 255) 2
#35aecd
(53, 174, 205) 3
#00b069
(0, 176, 105) 4
#feec0b
(254, 236, 11) 5
#ff6c20
(255, 108, 32) 6
#bc0134
(188, 1, 52) 7
#e4018f
(228, 1, 143) 8
#ffc34d
(255, 195, 77)
House this table in the unpublished “Unit 9.”
Use it for coloring various items in various units.
For easy access to HTML codes, print this slide.
(The RGB codes are relevant to Microsoft Word.)

9. How to Create your “Brand Table”
Step 1. Create a Canvas table of 9 rows, 4 columns. Adjust the columns as shown in the sample (previous slide).
Enter the four header texts (top row).
Color this header row gray.
In the first column, enter “Units” followed by 1,2, 3, etc.)
Next slide shows steps 2 and 3.

10. Creating your personal “Brand Table”
(Continued)
Step 2. Select your eight “brand” colors:
Go to Click on the “Color Picker” hexagon. Then >Colors >Color_Picker.asp
Click on a color in the hexagonal grid
Copy-Paste the HTML code into your table
Copy-Paste the RGB code into your table
Step 3. Under Brand Color , click on the cell you want to color.
Goto Table > Cell > Cell Properties > Advanced
In the Background Color field, enter the Hex code (Don’t forget the “#”. Example: #386eff
Repeat for the remaining 7 cells in that column

11. Tip: To select colors that go together: Go to “Page Layout” tab in Microsoft Word and click on “themed” colors. Select a few colors from one of the themes.

12. Tip To color an entire “page” in Canvas, insert a one-cell table.
Under table properties set the width at 100%
This ensures that the color will extend to the full width of any screen.
As you enter text, the height of the cell will increase.

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- Tad Dunne