Milti-Section Courses in Canvas

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Stephanie Claussen

• August 10, 2023 22:04

I am coordinating a course in the School of Engineering that has five different sections and is taught by four different instructors. We would like to create one central Canvas course to be used by all five sections of the course.

I have combined Canvas courses for classes where I was the only instructor for multiple sections, but have never done this for a class with multiple sections taught by multiple instructors. I think we would like to have the functionality of Option 2 described in this link:

https://services.northwestern.edu/TDClient/30/Portal/Requests/ServiceOfferingDet?ID=118

(Basically, all materials and assignments shared between sections, but the ability to sort the gradebook by section and make announcements by section, etc.)

My questions are:

1) How would I combine these sections? I tried to follow the steps I've used in the past (https://athelp.sfsu.edu/hc/en-us/articles/6513311261843-Combining-course-sections) but since I'm not the instructor of record for all the sections, I run into an issue here.

2) Can you confirm that if we are able to combine them, we would be able to still grade only the students in our sections and make announcements by section if needed?

Thank you!

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  Cristian Alvarado

  • August 10, 2023 23:21

  That link you sent is from another institution. I will caution that not every feature is equivalent across institutions, so be wary when you find online, non-SF State solutions to Canvas questions as not everything may apply.

  That being said, we can do this for you on request, but we'll need to have the written consent of all of the instructors involved. It uses the same cross-listing feature. When you cross-list, it gives you the individual sections as an option to filter by in a few different places, and if you want to be extremely strict about it, we can set it up so people in each section can only interact with people in their individual sections.

  To request:

  Send an email to at@sfsu.edu. CC all of the instructors of record. We'll need to know what section is going to be the primary section, and which sections should be combined.

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