Last revised: 2026-06-23

In Canvas, you can control who is assigned to Assignments, Quizzes, Pages, Modules, and Discussions. This way, you can control who sees an item.

When you choose to Edit* the item, you will be presented with this option:

Assign to

Here you can now select individual Sections or individual students. If you use differentiation tags in the course, you can also choose to assign to those with a certain tag.

A Section is usually a "kurstillfälle", a course instance. If you have joined courses (cross listing), you will have multiple Sections. This means that you can direct the information to a separate course instance. Read more about joining courses (cross listing).

*For Pages and Modules you need to select Assign to

Assign to for Modules

It is possible to make different modules visible for different course sessions. For example, if you have a distance learning course instance and a campus course instance that use the same course room, you can still have separate modules for the different specializations, if you wish.

To make this Assign to, for a specific Module, first go to the three dots next to the module name and select Edit:

Edit Module

Now you have the opportunity to adjust several settings for the Module. Select the Assign to tab (3) and then the Assign to option (4):

Edit Module settings - Assign to

Now you can choose to assign to Sections, Tags or individual students.

Press Save.