Canvas: Non-Instructional Course Creation

Introduction

Do you want to have your course in Canvas? (You should!) Is your course not in eSIS? Have DoTS create a non-instructional course in Canvas for you.

Benefits

• All the benefits that Canvas provides

Available to

• Faculty
• Instructors

Service Level Agreement

• DoTS sets up a non-instructional course within five business days.

Before Requesting

Before requesting this service, gather the following information so that DoTS can help you better

• Is the course academic (e.g., student related, student faculty information/collaboration, advising) or professional (e.g., training)?
• Are students self enrolling or are you manually enrolling students?
• Are you enrolling instructors?
• What is the course code and name?

After Requesting

To add people,

• Enter your course
• Select People
• +People to add teachers or to manually enroll students
• Add people using email addresses
  • For student email addresses that return "No Matches", send the enrollment link to them to allow self-enrollment
  • If you'd like, you can send students the enrollment link and skip the manual addition of students in the first place

Notes

Enrollment Types

• Student: read-only access to course-specific material. Students have the same view in non-instructional courses that they have in an eSIS-generated course.
• Teacher: Read/Write/Add/Delete access to course.
• Facilitator: Read access and grade write access. Facilitators cannot change course content.