Canvas Guides and Videos

• 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.