Import Canvas Content From A Previous Semester
- Canvas documentation: How to import Canvas content
- When import is finished, verify the content has imported correctly.
Review assignments, quizzes, and discussions
- Verify activities to be used in the course are published.
- Verify dates. Due dates are added to the calendar and the syllabus and serve as reminders to students. “Available from” and “Until” dates will unlock and lock the activity.
- Review Syllabus for accuracy.
Verify Links
- Canvas documentation: How to Validate Links
Use “Student View”
- Use Student View to review the entire course. This is a good time to verify that all of your content is available in an accessible format.
- Canvas documentation: Student View
Publish Your Course
- Before the official course start date (whenever it is that you want students to be able to access the course).
- Canvas documentation: How to Publish a Course
Cautions!
- DO NOT click on the “Conclude this Course” button, unless you know what you’re doing. Doing so will revert both you and students to a read-only access of the course.
- Announcements and Inbox (Conversation) messages will not be sent out if the course is unpublished.
- Pay attention to the time stamp on anything you have placed a date on. 12:00 AM means the very first minute of the selected day. For end dates, it is often best to choose 11:59 PM to ensure you are setting it up on the correct date.
Adapted from CanvasStartTermChecklist.pdf CC by-sa 4.0