CDMS?

The University had embarked to further enhance the teaching and learning experiences through Canvas.

1. Why CDMS?

   1. CDMS intends to help Faculties and Schools to gather and organise teaching and semesterly information at the start of each semester. Located in all Canvas Academic courses, CDMS will be used to populate the Canvas Syllabus. Additional information like technology usage, teaching modes will be captured for the University.

   2. Additionally, combining of course sites will no longer be done in CMS but in CDMS, moving forward. Teaching faculty need not indicate in CMS anymore, if one wishes to combine their Canvas courses. CDMS will accommodate this combination process as a self-service tool.

   3. CDMS allows the Syllabus in the Canvas courses to be ready ahead of the CourseReg in every semester.

       

2. Who can use CDMS?

   1. All teaching faculty will have automatic access to CDMS via their designated Canvas course. It is an extension tool in Canvas.

   2. Course coordinators and administration colleagues may also enrol into the system for access.

3. How to update the Syllabus info in Canvas?

   1. Where your course is ‘University / Faculty controlled’: Information in CDMS are fixed, as per Curriculum Management System (“CMS”).

      What this means: No changes can be made in CDMS; changes or updates for these sections will be done via CMS exclusively. Teaching faculty just need to verify and publish the items in CDMS.

   2. Where your course is ‘Instructor controlled’: Directly in CDMS; can be edited by the course instructor or designated colleague.

      What this means: The base information in CDMS will still be copied from CMS, however there is no sync between CDMS and back to CMS. Teaching faculty may need to check-in with their department processes, if any, whether approval is needed to update the Syllabus or whether the information need to be updated at CMS side as well -- so that both CDMS and CMS reflect the identical updated information.

4. What are my next steps for CDMS?

   1. Populate your Syllabus contents if you haven’t.

   2. Publish your Canvas course once ready, so prospective students can access your Canvas course/ Syllabus content during CourseReg.

       

5. What else should I know?

   1. CDMS only applies to Academic courses in Canvas. Non-Academic courses, short courses, WSQ courses and the likes are not impacted or scoped as part of CDMS workflow.

   2. Should the Syllabus contents are left untouched and unpopulated, CDMS base course information will be populated into the Canvas Syllabus one day before CourseReg in every semester. The information is identical as per CMS.

   3. We hope you will be able to provide the University accurate course information as much as possible, thus please do fill up all sections in CDMS where possible.

       

6. Where to get support for CDMS?

   1. CTLT had made ready online resources for your perusal (no login needed): CDMS - Class Data Management System    

   2.  Service Desk is conveniently included in the existing Canvas Support: https://ctlt.nus.edu.sg/service-desk/ 

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