Canvas Guides – Table of Contents

• Courses are created in Canvas 4-6 months before every semester, for all graded sections. No request needed.
• You can see your courses in Canvas after your department scheduler enters your teaching assignments into ARIES.

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 Preparation Checklist – Make sure all your courses includes these key items.

Teachers can import (copy) content from a previous Canvas course,  then update for the new semester, including:

• Refresh dates on all materials and assignments.
• 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 Inger Johnson at (970) 491-2008.

• Standard CSU Canvas course open and close dates for students
• How to customize course start and end dates

• Courses that are not published never display to students.
• When your course is ready for students publish your course.

• See the Course Life Cycle for ownership and deletion info.
• Help students finish incompletes
• Help with date of last participation for Financial Aid.