Course Preparation
- Academic courses (for 1 or more credits) are created systematically 4-6 months before each semester.
- Other courses created by request.
- Course creation details
If you want your students from multiple sections to use the same content and interact together in one Canvas course, before you add content, cross-list(combine) your sections(optional).
- Students are added systematically from ARIES.
- Teachers are added systematically, too. All teaching assignments in ARIES are added in the Teacher role in Canvas courses.
- Teachers can manually enroll TAs and others.
Course Checklist – Make sure your course includes these key items.
Teachers can import (copy) content from a previous Canvas course, then update for the new semester, including:
- Set course home page.
- Refresh dates on all materials and assignments.
- Use the “Multi-Tool Due Date Modifier” to adjust Assignment dates from a dashboard view (pages 10 and 11).
- Re-link any special tools and external apps such as Echo360 and McGraw-Hill.
- Re-create groups.
- Re-create conferences.
If you’d like to work with TILT to develop your course content, contact them at TILT_IDS@mail.colostate.edu
Canvas courses open to students on the Friday before the semester begins. To allow students to access a Canvas course, the start date must have passed and the course must be published.
To allow students to access a Canvas course before the default start date, adjust the start date and publish the course.
- See the Course Life Cycle for ownership and deletion info.
- Help students finish incompletes
- Help with date of last participation for Financial Aid.