Growing with Canvas

IMPORTANT NOTE: This page is optional viewing and will not generate a "checkmark" for completion.

TILLING THE SOIL

Many teachers teach the same course to multiple sections of students throughout the day. Since Infinite Campus lists each roster as a separate course, Canvas also lists each roster as a separate course. You may want to merge several of your courses together so you do not have to duplicate the content of each course. Canvas calls this "cross-listing" a section. This process is optional and you may wish to leave each section as a separate Canvas course.

PLANTING AND PRUNING

IMPORTANT NOTE: The process of cross-listing will move sections into another course and any student data (scores and submissions) will not carry into the new course. Only perform cross-listing before the course has been used or after you have gathered all of the submission data you may need and are willing to lose.

In this example, Professor Snape wishes to merge his two Potions 1 classes into one course. When cross-listing, each course will instead become a "section" of another course. This will allow teachers to assign separate due dates, see a separate gradebook for each section, and generate statistics to compare the different sections of the class.

To begin, click your Courses/Subjects button on the left side of the screen and then choose the option to view "All Courses" or "All Subjects". Or click here.
In your All Courses screen, you will see a button that says "Crosslist Courses" which you will click.
Select the "Bucket" course from the dropdown list. This will be the master course that the other courses will be merged into. Remember that any content (pages, quizzes, etc...) in the courses that you are moving will not move into the bucket course.
The next step is to put a checkbox next to each course that will be moving into the Bucket course.
The next step is to rename the course. The course names usually have the Period in the name by default. You may want to change the name of Bucket course to remove that indication of Periods since you just merged multiple periods into the same course.
Finally, click the submit button to start the merge process.

DIGGING DEEPER

You may decide that cross-listing your courses was not such a great idea after all. If you would like to undo the cross-listing, keep in mind that you will lose any grades and submissions that have been recorded for that section. You will need to place a MCSD work order and a Canvas administrator will undo the cross-listing. Please be very detailed about which sections should be de-crosslisted from the course and include a link to the course.