Course Settings

Course Settings & Course Details

• Use course settings

• Set details for a course

• Add an image to a course card in the Dashboard

• Change a course name and course code

• Set a time zone

• Change the start and end dates

• Restrict student access before or after the course dates

• Change the language preference

• Enable SpeedGrader to launch filtered by student group (for large courses)

• Grading schemes

  • Use grading schemes

  • Add a grading scheme

  • View grading schemes

  • Enable a grading scheme

  • View grading periods

• Customize visibility options for a course

• Customize visibility options for course content

• Set a Creative Commons license

• Include a course in the Public Course Index

• Set a course format

• Change the format of a course ePub export file

• Allow course content to be exported as an offline HTML file

Course Details - more options

• Enable course self-enrollment with a join code or secret URL

• Show recent announcements in the Course Home Page

• Hide totals in my students' grade summaries

• Hide grade distribution scoring details from students

• Hide sections from students on the People page

• Disable announcement replies for an entire course

Sidebar settings

• View a course as a test student using Student View

• View course statistics

• Reset course content (not available for official modules)

• Validate links

Sections

• Add a section to a course

• Change the start and end dates for a course section

• Change the name of a course section

• Delete a course section

• View enrollments in a course section

• Remove an enrollment from a course section

• Cross-list a section in a course 

• De-cross-list a section in a course

Navigation

• Manage Course Navigation links

Apps

• Refer to External Apps (LTI)

Feature Options

• Manage new features

• Currently available feature options

Other Course settings

• Use an elementary-level theme

• Sync course data in Canvas with Microsoft Teams

• Access the Canvas beta environment

  • NUS URL to be added

• Access the Canvas test environment 

  • NUS URL to be added

Related

• Page:
  Getting started with Academic Courses in Canvas
• Page:
  Import course template from Commons
• Page:
  CMIS department schedulers: checking for why the instructor name does not appear as assigned for a course
• Page:
  Certificates for safety courses
• Page:
  Accessing Course Access Report
• Page:
  Cannot add a student/staff to my course
• Page:
  Assignment dates cannot be before term start date
• Page:
  Unpublish or delete a course to remove it from the Dashboard
• Page:
  Copy Videos/Panopto videos from one course to another course
• Page:
  Make Syllabus visible to non-enrolled students
• Page:
  Copy a course from a previous semester
• Page:
  Where can I find my course timetable?
• Page:
  Guest students' role and course visibility
• Page:
  Change course nickname
• Page:
  Copy a course from a non-NUS Canvas site to a course in NUS Canvas