How Do I: Manual Content Import to Canvas

Look throughout your course for any surveys, along with any point values. Look throughout your course for any gallery assessments, along with any point values. These assessment tool does not exist in Canvas and will need to be restructured as discussions.

Video and audio files are often large in file size and can result in significantly longer processing times. If you have files stored locally, you are strongly encouraged to upload them to Panopto. Log-in to http://sso.calarts.edu and click on the green Panopto tile. Follow these instructions to upload video and audio to your new Panopto folder.

Remove any unneeded or duplicate materials from Resources, and all content areas and content folders.

Check the Course Details tab

1. Add a course card image.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the Course Details tab.
3. Open more options.
4. Here you can set the number of announcements shown on the home page and change settings if you use discussions in your course.

Check the Navigation tab

1. In the Navigation tab, you can show, hide, and reorder the left-side navigation links that appear in your course.
2. You might try starting with Syllabus, Announcements, Modules, People, Grades, Discussions (if applicable), Panopto Video, and Zoom.

Set or change your course home page

1. To set a custom home page, you must firstcreate and publish a new page.
2. Then, you can set it as the home page in your course.

1. Find your course download and unzip your course download.

2. Find an assignment, syllabus, quiz, or other .html file. In this example, we'll copy the syllabus.

3. Open the file in the web browser of your choice. In your browser menu, choose Edit > Select All and then Edit > Copy.

4. Paste it into the Rich Content Editor in Canvas. Click Update Syllabus or Save.

Follow the steps in Copying content to Canvas. You have three options to add your syllabus:

1. (Highly Recommended) Use the Canvas Syllabus tool
2. Create a module titled Syllabus
3. Upload your syllabus as a file

Open the assignment you want to recreate in your course download folder. Create a new assignment in Canvas. Follow the steps in Copying content to Canvas. Once you have created all the assignments, you may want to:

1. Visit the Assignments area to check due dates and point totals for all assignments.
2. You can update due dates and availability dates for multiple assignments at one time.

Group discussions will also need to be manually imported from Learn. Create a new discussion topic and follow the copy/paste instructions. You can also connect to groups.

We recommend creating rubrics on the Rubrics Index page, rather than from within the assignment itself. Doing so will prevent accidental loss of data if the rubric is later deleted from the assignment.

Visit the following Canvas guides for instructions on how to add rubrics to assignments, graded discussions, and quizzes.

If rubrics are used for more than one assignment, you will not be able to edit the rubric until you remove it from other associated assessments.

By default, course files are visible and accessible to ALL users.Any content you do not want students to access should be moved into a locked folder.

• Consider adding folders for improved organization.
• Remove duplicate files and older files that are no longer used.

You may also want to review date restrictions on modules if this is important for your course. In Canvas, modules can be locked until a certain date and time.

Individual Pages cannot be date restricted unless you move the page into a locked module.