how to combine canvas course sections

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How to Combine/Cross-list Your Course Sections in Canvas.
  • Go into the child, or secondary, section course, in this example the 104-02.
  • Click on Settings and then click the Sections tab. You should see the name of a section listed under this tab as a link. Click on this link name.
  • When you click on the link, you will see your list of students come up, along with a few buttons on the right. One of those buttons is “Cross-List ...
  • Once you enter the parent course, the system should validate.
  • Once you’ve submitted the crosslist, you should notice that you are now inside the parent course instead of the child course where you started ...

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How to cross-list your courses in canvas?

Sep 30, 2019 · Merging Course Sections. 1. Before you begin this process, go to the "Settings" area of the course site you want to contain all sections (parent course) and copy the Course ID ... 2. Once you have the course ID number, navigate to the course you want to merge (child section). Go to "Settings" and ...

How do I share courses content using canvas?

Combining Sections for a Canvas course In this example, we demonstrate how to combine sections in the same course. To combine sections, start by selecting the combine section folder icon, which will bring up a screen showing all available sections that can be combined. Click the desired sections you want to combine.

How do I communicate with my students in canvas?

Cross-Listing (Combining) Canvas Courses Tips and Best Practices Pick a Parent/ Master course to merge or cross-list the other course sections into. Cross-listing is performed from within the child course and pointing to the Parent/Master course.

How do I build a simple canvas course?

Merging Two Sections or Courses. From your Dashboard, find the course number for the main section by hovering over it and looking at the BOTTOM of your browser window. Note the ... Open the course that you want to move into the main section. …

What is it called when you merge sections in Canvas?

The same applies when you are merging courses. Within Canvas, the process is called “cross-listing”.

What are the benefits of merging?

Benefits of Merging. Instructors only have to input content once. Instructors can filter individual sections that are properly named in the Gradebook. Instructors can add separate content for sections in Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, and Quizzes.

Can you move content from one section to another?

You are not moving any content from one section to another; you are just moving students. Therefore, your main course (the one you are merging others into) can have content. If the course that you are merging into the main course has content, that content will be lost.

Step 1: Determine Child-Parent Course Relationship

Decide which course will be the "child" course - meaning its enrollments and shell will become part of a "parent" course. It is the child course that you are going to merge in Canvas. Likewise, determine which course will be the parent course. It is the parent course that you will do all of your course development and student management in.

Step 3: Confirm the Merge

Return to your Dashboard - the child course is no longer present. Go into the parent course and click the People link to view the combined enrollments.

Unmerging Courses

Instructors cannot unmerge a Canvas course once it has been cross-listed. Only a Canvas administrator can do this. Contact [email protected] for assistance.

Need Help?

For questions and assistance cross-listing courses/sections, contact [email protected].

Section-Specific Announcements

Canvas recently introduced the ability to send announcements to specific sections, rather than the entire class. To select specific sections for your announcement, open the Post to drop-down menu and select one or more sections from the list provided. To remove a section you have selected, click the X next to its name.

Section-Specific Assignments

When creating assignments in your course using Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussions, you can differentiate the assignment details. For example, your course sections may meet on different days of the week, so you can vary availability and due dates for each section.

Adding TAs

In Canvas, you can assign teaching assistants to specific sections in a course and limit their access to those sections only. When you restrict TAs to their assigned section (s) only, they will not be able to see or grade students in other sections of your course.

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Before You Combine Sections

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Consider whether combining sections is actually necessary. Canvas includes several features for easily copying and moving content between different courses, while keeping them separate. Content items can be quickly copied from one course or another throughout the semester using any of the following methods: Import C…
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Example of Combined Sections

  • An instructor teaches THREE sections of the same class on different days and times, but the content is basically the same for all sections. Rather than managing the same duplicated content in three Canvas courses, all students will access the content from a singleCanvas course. In this scenario, the instructor might benefit from combining the threecourse sections into a single Can…
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Important Considerations

  1. Combining sections is only available by request (see link below) prior to the beginning of a term.
  2. Sections may not be combined once a course has begun (student access and activity has occurred).
  3. Choose a “Primary” section to hold content. One course section will contain the course conte…
  1. Combining sections is only available by request (see link below) prior to the beginning of a term.
  2. Sections may not be combined once a course has begun (student access and activity has occurred).
  3. Choose a “Primary” section to hold content. One course section will contain the course content, and serve as the single course for students in any merged sections.
  4. Combining sections must occur before the first day of class.

Legal Considerations

  • The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) protects the privacy of a student’s education record, which includes a student’s course schedule. When different sections are merged in Canvas, it allows students to see other students who are enrolled in a separate class. Combining class sections in Canvas can violate students’ right to privacy by sharing protected in…
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Managing Combined Sections

  • There are several areas of a merged course that can be used to efficiently manage multiple sections in a single course, including Gradebook filtering, When class sections that do not meet together are combined into a single Canvas course, instructors should take steps to ensure student privacy and FERPA compliance.
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Request Combined Sections

  • Use the link below and submit the information requested to have multiple sections combined into a single Canvas course.
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