Canvas delivers teaching and learning materials to students through a course. Each course contains content that is specific to an enrolled cohort of students and is usually associated with a particular faculty or department.
There are three types of Canvas course available:
- Curriculum courses
- Informational courses
- Sandbox courses
These shall be explored in more detail below.
Any member of 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ can be enrolled on a course with a given role, or courses can be made available to all users via self-enrolment. Please see our help materials on enrolling users for more information. 
Once created, it is the responsibility of the course staff (usually the course leader), or Faculty Ed-Tech, to create content and to ensure that staff and students are enrolled on the course correctly. If you need further guidance with this, please contact your Faculty Ed-Tech team.
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Curriculum courses are automatically created in Canvas from the information in 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ's student system Banner.
Canvas Curriculum courses are created for an 911½ñÈÕºÚÁÏ accredited module and can contain any relevant content. They will usually contain some form of assessment, be part of the curriculum or be for credit. These courses can contain both formative and summative assessment content. They are created as a blank course shell that is unavailable to students.
Modules that should not have Canvas courses created will need to have the Integration Partner flag enabled in Banner to 'opt-out' of being created in Canvas.
Contact Registry if you need a curriculum module added to Blackboard.
Enrolments
For Canvas Curriculum courses, students will be automatically enrolled, dependent on the information held in Banner. 
Enrolling of members of staff to a course should be carried out by Faculty Ed-Tech teams. If you need further assistance with this, contact your Faculty Ed-Tech team or see our help materials on enrolling users.
Making your Curriculum course available to students
Canvas Curriculum courses are created as unpublished by default and will need to be published for students to participate in them. Unpublished courses are inaccessible to students but enrolled staff will still be able to access the course as normal and edit content and enrolments.
The availability of a Canvas course can be altered to suit the teaching delivery needs.
To change the course availability, carry out the following: 
- Access the course where you wish to change the availability
- From either the 'Home' page or 'Settings' page you can access 'Course Status' at the top right of the page
- Choose from Unpublished or Published
- The course will only be available to students once published and the 'Start date' set on the 'Settings' page of the course. If your course needs to start earlier or later than the date specified, please contact ICT to have the dates for your course adjusted.
It is not possible to unpublish a course that contains grades
Course Rollovers and Templates
Modules opted into the Canvas-Banner integration have courses automatically created between July and September before the start of each academic year. They are created as a templated course that is unavailable to students. Students will be automatically enrolled onto a Canvas course within 24 hours of being added to the corresponding module in Banner.
If you need to rollover content into a newly created Canvas Curriculum course, or use a different template, contact your Faculty Ed-Tech team before the start of the academic year and they will be able to facilitate this for you.
Ed Tech labs are able to request a bulk rollover of content. Please note only Ed Tech staff have this ability and information on the process is available on the Ed Tech Onboarding course.
Banner Cross listed courses
Canvas courses use sections to separate enrolments from different Banner modules on cross listed courses. The course contains the content, whereas the sections contain enrolments. This can be used when a course has multiple iterations within a term in Banner, as it removes the need for content to be duplicated multiple times in Canvas for different cohorts. 
Each cross listed course can have multiple sections attached and content added to the course will be visible to all students enrolled on the sections.
Informational courses
These courses are for information purposes only and should not contain any form of summative assessment, be part of the curriculum or be for credit. These courses can contain formative assessment content.
To request a new Canvas informational course please complete the  in ASK Service Now.
Once a course has been created for you, it is your responsibility to organise and administer it. This includes ensuring that the course is populated with content and that students and staff are correctly enrolled upon it. If you need assistance with this, contact your Faculty Ed-Tech team.
If large numbers of Canvas courses are required, these can be created in bulk. Please contact the ICT Service Desk for more information regarding this.
Course Rollovers and Templates
If you need to rollover existing content into a Canvas informational course for the new academic year, please ensure that you specify the content required to be copied over when completing the ASK request form.
It is recommended that you consult with your Faculty Ed-Tech team, as they may be able to facilitate this process for you.
Ed Tech labs are able to request a bulk rollover of content. Please note only Ed Tech staff have this ability and information on the process is available on the Ed Tech Onboarding course.
A Canvas Sandbox course is a test area that allows you to trial and experiment with the different features, tools, integrations and content available in Canvas. These can be used to help staff develop course design skills and get to know their way around Canvas in a course that is only accessible to them.
All Canvas Sandbox Courses have Ally enabled by default, which will allow you to test Ally’s functionality and the accessibility of any content you upload to your course. Please see the Ally staff user guide for more information.
Canvas Sandbox courses are limited to staff only. Each member of staff is allowed 3 courses each. Upon creation of the course, you will be automatically enrolled as a course Teacher.
Canvas Sandbox courses are intended for personal use only and should not be used for teaching and learning. Students should not be enrolled on these courses.
To create a Sandbox course, follow these instructions:
Canvas Sandbox course generator coming soon!
Please contact the ICT service desk to request a sandbox course.
It is recommended to engage with ICT before you start designing a course that requires self enrolment, there are specific design requirements that must be met in order for self enrolment courses to function as expected.
Canvas informational courses can have Self-Enrolment enabled for students. This option is useful for open courses that do not have a set cohort of students. Anyone needing to participate in the course as a student will need to search for the course in the Canvas Catalogue and enrol themselves.
To set Self Enrolment for a course please contact the ICT Service Desk to setup the course in the Canvas Catalog.
You should provide clear instructions for students if you would like them to use this method, including how to find the self-enrolment course.
Note: Staff are required to be enrolled manually. Self-Enrolment only adds users as students to a Canvas course.