You began applying chunking at the course level when you created your course map and decided how you will organize and sequence your course topics, activities, and assessments. Additional examples of chunking at the course level are listed below.

• Break up a long lectures into smaller segments and record mini-lectures.
• Take a challenging topic and organize it into smaller sub-topics that may be spread across multiple pages or modules in your course.
• Scaffold a discussion, essay, or project by breaking it down into smaller tasks for students to complete.

Chunking at the module level involves deciding how you will organize and present content, activities, and assessments in each module. Consider how you will guide students through the readings, activities, and assessments. Below are a few examples of how to chunk content at the module level.

• Decide how you would like to group and sequence content/topics in the module.
• Use multiple pages to present content in a module in order to help break up the content for students and avoid creating long pages that require a lot of scrolling.
• Determine the order in which you would like students to complete activities and assessments in the module. 
• Clearly label items in each module.
  • Consider using text headings and/or the indent feature to organize module items. 

A helpful step to take to assist you with the design and organization of your course modules is to create a module outline. Once you decide how to chunk and organize one module in your course, it is recommended to use that same organizational structure in all of your modules to provide consistency for students. 

Presenting information on a Page in long paragraphs requires a lot of scrolling and makes it difficult for students to read content on a laptop screen or mobile device. The chunking strategies listed below may be applied to presenting content on a Canvas Page to improve the readability and search-ability of the content:

• Break long paragraphs of text apart into smaller sections.
• Use headings to organize topics and ideas.
• Use lists to organize information and present it in a concise format.
• Use action icons to draw attention to specific tasks or items.
• Consider using images to help visually explain concepts in addition to text (e.g., graphic organizers, infographics, diagrams).