CANVAS RESOURCES FOR FACULTY

Setting Up a Canvas Course

For faculty new to Canvas, see the Setting Up a Canvas Course: The Basics page on the SRJC Distance Education website for an introduction to Canvas terminology and to get started setting up your Canvas course.

Templates in Canvas Commons

The Distance Education team at SRJC has created templates that you can import into your course shells from Commons to get a quick start on course development. See the Guide to Using Your Course Shell for detailed instructions and to preview the 10 templates available. You can import an entire 16-week course template or select particular components.

Steps to import a Quickstart template from Commons:

Click on the blue Commons button in global navigation.
Type the search terms "SRJC Quickstart" to find the 10 templates available.
Click on the resource of your choice to see more details about it and to import it.
Select the course shell where you would like to import the template in the Import into Canvas sidebar. You can search or browse for any shell.
Click on the green Import into Canvas button. The resource will be copied into your course shell.
PLEASE NOTE: If you import a template from Commons a second time to the same course, it will overwrite the first import AND any changes that you made to the first import. Renaming or editing the components does not prevent overwriting from Commons.

How do I change the Front Page (Home Page) of this course?

To change the Front Page for this course shell, see the Canvas Instructor Guide page How do I set a Front Page in a course? Here is a summary of the basic steps:

In course navigation, click the Pages link.
Click the blue View All Pages button to go to the Pages Index.
Click a page's Settings button and select Use as Front Page. If you do not see this option, be sure the page is published and try again.

Start of Semester Checklist

Check out our Start of Semester Checklist for faculty using Canvas. The checklist includes how to check for broken links, preview the course in Student View, and publish the course.