Download and import any of these template courses into your Canvas course shell. Find detailed instructions below.
More Templates Coming Soon
ENC 1101, Expository and Augmentative Writing (Spring 2017)
ENC 1102, Argument and Persuasion (Spring 2017)
ENC 3246, Professional Communication for Engineers (Spring 2017)
ENC 3254, Writing in the Disciplines (Spring 2017)
ENC 3459, Writing in the Medical Sciences (Spring 2016)
ENC 3465, Writing in the Law (Spring 2017, Creed Greer)
ENC 3466, Writing in the Communication Sciences (Spring 2016, Jennifer Coenen)
Setting up your Canvas Course
1. Request a course in e-learning: e-Learning Course Request.
• All of the templates are for “registrar” courses.
• You’ll often get your course request filled within 15 minutes!
2. Save the Export Package file (one of the Canvas course templates linked above) to your desktop.
• Note: the file is too big to attach to UF mail, so it’s stored online. Just click and opt to download/save to your desktop. The link may be shared via email, but not the file itself.
3. Once your course request is filled, sign into Canvas, go to “My Courses” and click on the class.
4. Go to “Settings” at the bottom of the class navigation menu (the one that follows the left side of the page)
5. Click “Import content into this course” (menu is on the right side of the screen).
• Additional information in the Canvas Guide: How do I import a Canvas course export package?
6. In the “Content Type” drop-down menu, select “Canvas Course Export Package”
7. Select the file from your desktop.
• Wait for it to upload!
• Go to the Home page, click “Edit,” and fill in your Instructor info. Save and then “Publish” the page (if not published).
• UF automatically adds students to the class, so you don’t have to deal with that.
• Students cannot see the course until the first day of class, so publishing before you’ve finished setting up due dates and activities/quizzes is not a problem.
NOTE: Students cannot see anything that is NOT published! This includes every assignment, activity, quiz, etc. Canvas allows instructors to publish each and every element of the class independently.
• Items that are published have a little green cloud next to them. If the cloud is gray, the item is not published. Just click the cloud to publish or unpublish.
Modules
Templates are typically organized in “Modules,” meaning you can navigate through unit material by clicking the “Next” and “Previous” buttons at the bottom of the page. Or, you can just click links and use the browser back button.
- Modules can also be published or unpublished. The Export should have the published version, but you can turn off what students see as you wish.
- As the instructor, you can see all the various Canvas navigation options in the class menu. However, the student settings are different. For instance, they cannot see the “Pages” option. Instead, students can navigate from the Home page or by using the Modules function.
- Some assignments and activities may not be included in the Modules. You can change this by editing the Modules tab and adding Assignment/Activities to specific modules. Those links will now be added to the click-through navigation. The Module will be organized in the order you specify.
- Students can see the Assignments page – we strongly recommend that you ask them to change their page to sort by “Type” – this shows categories of assignments instead of an alphabetical listing.
Setting the Due Dates for Assignments/Activities/Planning Memos, etc.
- All of the assignments and many (if not all) activities have been built into the template, but you will need to add due dates. Click the “Assignments” link and you will see a long list of items that need dates added. Click the link to any assignment to edit the information about that assignment. You can choose whether to make the assignment available from the beginning of the class, or choose the date students will be able to see it. Minimally, you need to set a due date. The due date will automatically populate the Calendar for the class as well as the Syllabus link.
- Activities may need a bit more work. According to most syllabi, you have 100 points to allocate to Activities, but you get to choose which ones you want to associate with points and decide the point values. The other activities you can use as class activities to the extent you like.
- Follow the same procedure as with Assignments – click on the activity, edit to add points and due dates (if you wish), then save.
- There are a couple of activities we strongly recommend using, whether they are for points or not. For example, in 3254: Getting to know your Profession, Synthesizing Sources (both Plants vs Zombies and Guerilla Gardening [or selection of texts you prefer]), the Elevator Pitch and Working Group Progress Report. The Elevator Pitch is particularly important for Career Fair.
- Career Fair is in Fall, usually toward the end of September. It includes specific dates for tech and non-tech fields. It helps students to schedule the job applications unit before Career Fair so they can use that material for the event.
Files
- Most of what you need to run your class can be found in the “Files” page, and all the material there should already be linked throughout the course. Feel free to add your own material to Files – when you come up with a great new activity, please let us know so we can add it to the class options! We are happy to give you credit for it.
- The “Class schedule” is not linked – instead, a general template is included under “Course Management” in the Files page. You will need to amend this according to your style/plan.