Good video, Ashlee. My question is this: Since I teach essentially the same course at three community colleges, how do I copy a course from one school to another?
I have never written a comment before but truly, you are such a life saver and a great teacher to this teacher. I don't know what I would have done with out you.
Oh Ashlee...... what a blessing you are! Your videos are fantastic and a God send to us high school teachers that have been thrown into online teaching.
Ashlee - You are AWESOME!! Your videos about almost EVERYTHING in Canvas are phenomenal!! Our district just went to the Canvas platform... so I'm busy trying to build my elementary courses and modules for virtual learning! You explanations are clear and your enthusiasm is WONDERFUL!! Thank you so much for all the time and energy you've spent helping so many!! Your students are so lucky to have you as their teacher!
I just wanna say thank you for sharing all your video tutorials on how to manage the canvas....everything that i do with our new platform indeed came from watching your video...happiness overloaded each day that i successfully able to follow and learn from you specially that this is my first time to have this kind of online classes. God bless you and your family with good health and long life..keep safe ( Angelica Tanio from the Philippines)
Thank you so much for this kind message. I appreciate you taking the time to comment :) I'm overjoyed that you are finding joy and happiness in online teaching and that it gets a little easier each day. Happy that I can be along this journey with you and offer support and inspiration from California to the Philippines. Glad we connected here.
Thank you so much for your help, our district has been overloaded with teachers trying to access PDO --so I'm in the same boat . But now that I have found you I truly appreciate your selfless acts of kindness in sharing information.
Cynthia Milloy My absolute pleasure. I happy to help fellow teachers and educators in any way I can and this seemed to be the best way to offer support especially right now with so many jumping to online teaching. We have to support each other 🤗 let me know if I can help in any other way or if you need any specific tutorials. I’ll keep adding new ones each week.
Thanks for sharing this fantastic lesson. 🙏My head was going to explode yesterday, but after watching this video, today I was able to prepare my first week of classes for 6 courses. 💪💪
Wonderful! Wow.... 6 courses!!!! You rock. Seriously that's wild! I'm sending you all the ☕️ and support from here in California to where ever you are in the world! What type of classes are you teaching and are you new to Canvas?
Hello Ashlee, Thank you so much for all the wonderful videos, I teach at RCCD as well and four other colleges. What I love about your videos that they are to the point and you make it easy to follow into my canvas classes. Thank you again.
That is awesome! I'm no longer teaching at that district but glad to hear from a fellow California freeway flier. That hustle is real! Hopefully you are saving some time and gas dollars with more online teaching these days. Glad I could be of help!
Hi there! I think it's more of a preferred personal preference and what you need that works best for you. This video is about a year old right now so there are many options available on Canvas now in 2021 that weren't available when I recorded this tutorial. If you use copy course steps then it needs to be in the same institution but if you want to copy that course into another class in a different college/school/etc you will want to export it. Hope that helps a little!
Hi there. Good question. This is example I used in the video was an older class where I was testing out the idea of links in the homepage bc Canvas was new to that college. I put links on the homepage as an experiment to see if it helped them navigate the content a little easier for an online asynchronous course. It was helpful to some but now that Canvas is used more and students are familiar with the platform I no longer include the buttons or links on the homepage unless it’s a school where the students are new to online classes or Canvas. Already trying née things to see what works!
I truly appreciate your concise, easy to follow, and beautifully done videos. You have saved me from hours of Canvas Frustration. You are wonderful. I will refer my colleagues to your channel. Thank you so much!
Hi there! I'm very new to Canvas, and I have created a Sandbox course to play around in so I don't mess any of my real courses up. I have a homepage and a few modules created in my Sandbox course. When I import from my modules and pages in Sandbox, will all of the links stay the same in the modules and on my homepage? I'm a little apprehensive to even attempt this because I'm so afraid I'll lose everything I've spent so much time on. Your videos have been a lifesaver so far! I truly enjoy watching and learning from you!
it should not change anything once you import it or copy content into your new courses. I say should because I feel like Canvas is changing constantly and every school district has been setting up different functions/elements/restrictions for their needs. It's kind of like the wild west of online teaching right now! You shouldn't loose any work. If it helps, export your course you've created in sandbox and save that file as a back. I did a video on how to do this. Hope this helps a little.
Yes, you should be able to edit it once it's copied into another course. Think of like starting with a foundation that you can then edit and rework to fit the needs of your next course.
oh my goodness I'm so glad I was able to help! If put all the Canvas videos in a playlist on my channel if that's easier for you to reference the ones that you might need. I'll keep adding to it. Let me know if you need any specific topic covered and I'll add it to my list.
Would you do a video on how to import from a google drive/slides/documents into Canvas. There seems to be a issue with getting "access denied" when trying to add something from Google Drive. TIA!
make sure you are signed into your institutional gmail they provide. I'm not a fan personally from importing from google into Canvas bc of the accessibility for both instructor and students but I know many of us are just trying to get the content in as fast as we can these days. I did a video about updated RCE and Canvas new features that might be a little helpful. ruclips.net/video/EIKdkqpKHxw/видео.html
I absolutely love your videos and rely on them to build courses for next year. How do you make a template Page and keep reusing it and relabeling it? I thought I had a template but realized that everytime I renamed it it changed the content and I had to make the Pages from scratch each time. I apologize for my lame question.
Click on your pages tab on the left side bar. Go to the top and click on the red button view all pages.Go to the far right side of the page you want to reuse and click on the three dots. click duplicate page. now you have a copy of that page and can rename and re use and build off of that as a template. Hope this helps! Just remember to duplicate items in canvas to create a copy of it then you can rename and reuse it. No question is ever lame :) Just like we tell our students...all questions are just as important.
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thank you! I realize that I made a duplicate once, thinking that it was like making a copy in Google, I didn't realize I would have to make a duplicate every time.
Check out this video where I explain how to set up your course settings! I"ve time stamped it for you to go directly to that spot of the video: ruclips.net/video/8vLia8KWP1A/видео.html
I teach elementary PE and have multiple classes for each grade level. Can I create all the content for one first grade class and then import it into multiple shells (all my other first grade classes) with all the information and links intact? Thanks so much.
yes you can! re-use and re-purpose all your content in Canvas! This copy course content video shows ways to do that but there's also new functions in canvas as well that allows this. Video on this coming soon!
Thanks so much for the awesome videos Ashlee! One question we had is about images on a page. If you import a page or module like you showed, the images will import to the new class automatically, correct? (You don't have to also pick them from the "files" section when you do the import?) I had some issues with kids not being able to see images on a page even though I could see them but I think it was because I was copy/pasting and not doing the actual "import".
You should be able to see everything including images and videos but I always suggest going back in and double checking everything. If you make sure you always import files and images then they should ideally be logged into your cloud so when you copy course content to other classes the files attached will go with them. I do sugggest importing everything so it's in the system rather than dropping or copy paste into pages. Also, when you import images make sure they are accessible filling in the alt text on the right.
To be fair, if I sound less than nice or bitter it is because our school district started using(forced us) using Canvas last year, A WEEK before school started! ANYWAY, in the video at 10:34, she discusses changing the date which is helpful BUT on that page, there is a beginning or ending date during the import process. BUT the class dates are not important and she doesn't bother. HOWEVER, the due dates of imported assignments are REALLY important, and changing them for each assignment is VERY TIME-CONSUMING. Also, she lists 3 things, attachments, files, links, that might not work and she says that is not important. SO, add up this 13-minute video and all the other little things she mentioned that will take 3-4 minutes and THAT ADDS UP! I appreciate her help but the elephant in the room is that LMS is the biggest time-waster than anything I have seen in education for the past 25 years. I admit there is so much I don't know about this LMS but to me, it seems like itunes for schools. A place where all the education apps and be sold but we only are buying them because people in district offices around the country, who have not taught is YEARS, thought it would be a good idea. BECAUSE there is NO WAY anyone who has been in a classroom for 30 years would have EVER DESIGNED a grade book like Canvass's ( yes, I added the extras). Could they not figure out how to erase or reset the due dates when they added the option of changing the dates of the cousre when importing am assignment? AND why don't they have an "assigned day" option when editing, or is "available date "supposed to be used? SORRY I know i must sound like the guy from "Network" but I am mad as He** but I have no choice but to take until another new shiny toy is dangled in front of our districts TOSAs ugh
Hi there Josh. First, I'd like say that I am very sorry for your frustrations with Canvas and the quick move to online teaching. It's been a challenge for educators all over the world to make that jump without much help or prior warning. Just a tip: when you import a course you will always need to go through and update each due date on the assignments even if you put in the dates. It will unfortunately never work out perfectly as each calendar year always shifts. Canvas is always updating and even though it is not perfect it has become the most widely used LMS across the world. The advantage is that when students transtion from K-12 into college they will more than likely be familiar with the platform. There are many components and working pieces in Canvas and does take time to learn what works best for you and how you teach your classes. I do think Canvas will be the main LMS for the future so at least (we hope) we will all get to stick with one system and support each other in this new online form of education which is exactly why I created my channel as a FREE resources for educators.
Ashlee, I teach elementary self-contained which means I teach each subject every day. However, as a 3rd grade team, we each plan for a different subject. Is there a way for me to upload all my assignments each week for the subject I plan for, and send that to my team to save us some time. That way I don't have to upload each assignment/quiz/discussion each day for each subject. Does that make sense??? So can we copy modules and everything in it and send it to our entire team for them to upload or is the canvas copy/import function only for courses we teach individually?
check out the BluePrint function to share between other teachers/classes/etc. Sorry I don't have a video on that yet. but yes it's possible! here's a video from Canvas that might help community.canvaslms.com/t5/Video-Guide/Blueprint-Courses-Overview/ta-p/383201
SOS Thank you so much for these videos. I have a question, after I copied the entire course content, can I edit the syllabus? I didn't delete the syllabus from the original. I went to assignments and pressed delete syllabus and I couldn't see the material that I just copied in my new class, When I go to settings it shows the information of the new class only. In the section Import content says: " No jobs have been queued Content import files cannot be downloaded after 500 days."
You can edit the syllabus once you upload it into the course you are copying it into. Copy the content you want into the new course then go into the syllabus and edit it in that new course. hope this helps a little. It's hard to understand exactly what I can say that helps in this situation via text without seeing your screen.
Usually the links to videos in pages don't break but because Canvas is updating for accessibility and along with new LTI like New Quizzes, then some of the links might get broken in the transfer. I know it's frustrating when you have to go back and check everything but at least it gives you a foundation and you don't have to start from scratch 😀
@@richardpalma2858 then you’re more than likely out of space because the free version is extremely limited. Email me if you need more help or feedback. You can find that adresss in my about tab here on RUclips.
Got any questions? Let me know and I'll be happy to help or make a video tutorial on anything else you might need help with!
Has anyone found this a time saver yet? I just copied a couple of course from spring into summer and it is amazing!
Good video, Ashlee. My question is this: Since I teach essentially the same course at three community colleges, how do I copy a course from one school to another?
Hi Ashlee How do I combine two sections? You are amazing!
I have never written a comment before but truly, you are such a life saver and a great teacher to this teacher. I don't know what I would have done with out you.
Thank you so much ☺️ I appreciate you and very glad I could help out a fellow educator.
Perfect! So clearly presented. Thanks!
You're very welcome!
Oh Ashlee...... what a blessing you are! Your videos are fantastic and a God send to us high school teachers that have been thrown into online teaching.
Wow, thank you! I'm just so happy I'm able to help fellow teachers out there. You got this! One day at a time and one step at a time.
You have saved my life! :) Thank you so much--exactly what I was searching for!
You are so welcome! glad I could help.
You have saved me, Ashlee. Thank you for your great videos!
You are so welcome! I'm so glad I could help 💜 Are you prepping for an online class this fall?
Ashlee - You are AWESOME!! Your videos about almost EVERYTHING in Canvas are phenomenal!! Our district just went to the Canvas platform... so I'm busy trying to build my elementary courses and modules for virtual learning! You explanations are clear and your enthusiasm is WONDERFUL!! Thank you so much for all the time and energy you've spent helping so many!! Your students are so lucky to have you as their teacher!
Wow, thank you for this wonderful feedback. I sure appreciate you! Happy teaching :)
So clear and helpful! Thanks, Ashlee!
You're so welcome!
I just wanna say thank you for sharing all your video tutorials on how to manage the canvas....everything that i do with our new platform indeed came from watching your video...happiness overloaded each day that i successfully able to follow and learn from you specially that this is my first time to have this kind of online classes. God bless you and your family with good health and long life..keep safe ( Angelica Tanio from the Philippines)
Thank you so much for this kind message. I appreciate you taking the time to comment :) I'm overjoyed that you are finding joy and happiness in online teaching and that it gets a little easier each day. Happy that I can be along this journey with you and offer support and inspiration from California to the Philippines. Glad we connected here.
Thank you so much for your help, our district has been overloaded with teachers trying to access PDO --so I'm in the same boat . But now that I have found you I truly appreciate your selfless acts of kindness in sharing information.
Cynthia Milloy My absolute pleasure. I happy to help fellow teachers and educators in any way I can and this seemed to be the best way to offer support especially right now with so many jumping to online teaching. We have to support each other 🤗 let me know if I can help in any other way or if you need any specific tutorials. I’ll keep adding new ones each week.
Thanks for sharing this fantastic lesson. 🙏My head was going to explode yesterday, but after watching this video, today I was able to prepare my first week of classes for 6 courses. 💪💪
Wonderful! Wow.... 6 courses!!!! You rock. Seriously that's wild! I'm sending you all the ☕️ and support from here in California to where ever you are in the world! What type of classes are you teaching and are you new to Canvas?
This is so helpful! Thank you!
Welcome!
Hello Ashlee,
Thank you so much for all the wonderful videos, I teach at RCCD as well and four other colleges.
What I love about your videos that they are to the point and you make it easy to follow into my canvas classes.
Thank you again.
That is awesome! I'm no longer teaching at that district but glad to hear from a fellow California freeway flier. That hustle is real! Hopefully you are saving some time and gas dollars with more online teaching these days. Glad I could be of help!
Genius. Thanks so much!
Welcome!
Hi Ashlee, I'm so grateful for your videos. Can you discuss why this method would be preferred over "Copy Course"?
Hi there! I think it's more of a preferred personal preference and what you need that works best for you. This video is about a year old right now so there are many options available on Canvas now in 2021 that weren't available when I recorded this tutorial. If you use copy course steps then it needs to be in the same institution but if you want to copy that course into another class in a different college/school/etc you will want to export it. Hope that helps a little!
Excellent video as always! Thanks
Thanks again!
Thank you for this! Question--why on your front page do you have buttons for things already included in the left hand navigation?
Hi there. Good question. This is example I used in the video was an older class where I was testing out the idea of links in the homepage bc Canvas was new to that college. I put links on the homepage as an experiment to see if it helped them navigate the content a little easier for an online asynchronous course. It was helpful to some but now that Canvas is used more and students are familiar with the platform I no longer include the buttons or links on the homepage unless it’s a school where the students are new to online classes or Canvas. Already trying née things to see what works!
Six By Sondheim....sweet!! This video helped me save a *lot* of time...thank you!
Excellent! So glad it saved you some time. Yes, I love using that video for my musical theatre classes :) I"m glad you recognized that!
Great video!
Thanks!
Thank you Ashlee !
You are so welcome!
I truly appreciate your concise, easy to follow, and beautifully done videos. You have saved me from hours of Canvas Frustration. You are wonderful. I will refer my colleagues to your channel. Thank you so much!
Glad I could help! Thanks so much for the feedback and thanks for sharing. I appreciate you!
Hi there! I'm very new to Canvas, and I have created a Sandbox course to play around in so I don't mess any of my real courses up. I have a homepage and a few modules created in my Sandbox course. When I import from my modules and pages in Sandbox, will all of the links stay the same in the modules and on my homepage? I'm a little apprehensive to even attempt this because I'm so afraid I'll lose everything I've spent so much time on.
Your videos have been a lifesaver so far! I truly enjoy watching and learning from you!
it should not change anything once you import it or copy content into your new courses. I say should because I feel like Canvas is changing constantly and every school district has been setting up different functions/elements/restrictions for their needs. It's kind of like the wild west of online teaching right now! You shouldn't loose any work. If it helps, export your course you've created in sandbox and save that file as a back. I did a video on how to do this. Hope this helps a little.
Thank you so much Ashlee for all the Canvas videos . Ashlee after copying an entire course can we edit the syllabus and exams dates? Thank you
Yes, you should be able to edit it once it's copied into another course. Think of like starting with a foundation that you can then edit and rework to fit the needs of your next course.
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thank you SO much Ashlee. I have learned a lot by watching your videos. Thank you!
Thank you so very much for your help! : )
You're welcome!
I wish I could give you hundreds of likes! I don't have to wait for IT to rescue me anymore.
oh my goodness I'm so glad I was able to help! If put all the Canvas videos in a playlist on my channel if that's easier for you to reference the ones that you might need. I'll keep adding to it. Let me know if you need any specific topic covered and I'll add it to my list.
Would you do a video on how to import from a google drive/slides/documents into Canvas. There seems to be a issue with getting "access denied" when trying to add something from Google Drive. TIA!
make sure you are signed into your institutional gmail they provide. I'm not a fan personally from importing from google into Canvas bc of the accessibility for both instructor and students but I know many of us are just trying to get the content in as fast as we can these days. I did a video about updated RCE and Canvas new features that might be a little helpful. ruclips.net/video/EIKdkqpKHxw/видео.html
I absolutely love your videos and rely on them to build courses for next year. How do you make a template Page and keep reusing it and relabeling it? I thought I had a template but realized that everytime I renamed it it changed the content and I had to make the Pages from scratch each time. I apologize for my lame question.
Click on your pages tab on the left side bar. Go to the top and click on the red button view all pages.Go to the far right side of the page you want to reuse and click on the three dots. click duplicate page. now you have a copy of that page and can rename and re use and build off of that as a template. Hope this helps! Just remember to duplicate items in canvas to create a copy of it then you can rename and reuse it. No question is ever lame :) Just like we tell our students...all questions are just as important.
@@VirtualTeachingPro Thank you! I realize that I made a duplicate once, thinking that it was like making a copy in Google, I didn't realize I would have to make a duplicate every time.
@@eulaucherieeulau7395 canvas is a little tricky like that. It took me some time discover that myself. happy creating and re-using to save time!
How do you a photo/image for your courses on the dashboard? I did a homepage but the course on Dashboard is plain blue. Thanks theatre lady!
Check out this video where I explain how to set up your course settings! I"ve time stamped it for you to go directly to that spot of the video: ruclips.net/video/8vLia8KWP1A/видео.html
I teach elementary PE and have multiple classes for each grade level. Can I create all the content for one first grade class and then import it into multiple shells (all my other first grade classes) with all the information and links intact? Thanks so much.
yes you can! re-use and re-purpose all your content in Canvas! This copy course content video shows ways to do that but there's also new functions in canvas as well that allows this. Video on this coming soon!
Do another video on this please Canvas upgraded, but this is great don't get me wrong
thanks for your feedback! I'll add it to my list.
Any way to download modules while the course is finished?
Thanks so much for the awesome videos Ashlee! One question we had is about images on a page. If you import a page or module like you showed, the images will import to the new class automatically, correct? (You don't have to also pick them from the "files" section when you do the import?) I had some issues with kids not being able to see images on a page even though I could see them but I think it was because I was copy/pasting and not doing the actual "import".
You should be able to see everything including images and videos but I always suggest going back in and double checking everything. If you make sure you always import files and images then they should ideally be logged into your cloud so when you copy course content to other classes the files attached will go with them. I do sugggest importing everything so it's in the system rather than dropping or copy paste into pages. Also, when you import images make sure they are accessible filling in the alt text on the right.
To be fair, if I sound less than nice or bitter it is because our school district started using(forced us) using Canvas last year, A WEEK before school started! ANYWAY, in the video at 10:34, she discusses changing the date which is helpful BUT on that page, there is a beginning or ending date during the import process. BUT the class dates are not important and she doesn't bother. HOWEVER, the due dates of imported assignments are REALLY important, and changing them for each assignment is VERY TIME-CONSUMING. Also, she lists 3 things, attachments, files, links, that might not work and she says that is not important. SO, add up this 13-minute video and all the other little things she mentioned that will take 3-4 minutes and THAT ADDS UP! I appreciate her help but the elephant in the room is that LMS is the biggest time-waster than anything I have seen in education for the past 25 years. I admit there is so much I don't know about this LMS but to me, it seems like itunes for schools. A place where all the education apps and be sold but we only are buying them because people in district offices around the country, who have not taught is YEARS, thought it would be a good idea. BECAUSE there is NO WAY anyone who has been in a classroom for 30 years would have EVER DESIGNED a grade book like Canvass's ( yes, I added the extras). Could they not figure out how to erase or reset the due dates when they added the option of changing the dates of the cousre when importing am assignment? AND why don't they have an "assigned day" option when editing, or is "available date "supposed to be used? SORRY I know i must sound like the guy from "Network" but I am mad as He** but I have no choice but to take until another new shiny toy is dangled in front of our districts TOSAs ugh
Hi there Josh. First, I'd like say that I am very sorry for your frustrations with Canvas and the quick move to online teaching. It's been a challenge for educators all over the world to make that jump without much help or prior warning.
Just a tip: when you import a course you will always need to go through and update each due date on the assignments even if you put in the dates. It will unfortunately never work out perfectly as each calendar year always shifts.
Canvas is always updating and even though it is not perfect it has become the most widely used LMS across the world. The advantage is that when students transtion from K-12 into college they will more than likely be familiar with the platform.
There are many components and working pieces in Canvas and does take time to learn what works best for you and how you teach your classes. I do think Canvas will be the main LMS for the future so at least (we hope) we will all get to stick with one system and support each other in this new online form of education which is exactly why I created my channel as a FREE resources for educators.
What about transferring content from a temporary free Canvas to a class i'm going to teach?
Yes you can do that. You’ll need to export and import it though. There’s a video on them at on my channel.
Ashlee, I teach elementary self-contained which means I teach each subject every day. However, as a 3rd grade team, we each plan for a different subject. Is there a way for me to upload all my assignments each week for the subject I plan for, and send that to my team to save us some time. That way I don't have to upload each assignment/quiz/discussion each day for each subject. Does that make sense??? So can we copy modules and everything in it and send it to our entire team for them to upload or is the canvas copy/import function only for courses we teach individually?
check out the BluePrint function to share between other teachers/classes/etc. Sorry I don't have a video on that yet. but yes it's possible! here's a video from Canvas that might help community.canvaslms.com/t5/Video-Guide/Blueprint-Courses-Overview/ta-p/383201
SOS Thank you so much for these videos. I have a question, after I copied the entire course content, can I edit the syllabus? I didn't delete the syllabus from the original.
I went to assignments and pressed delete syllabus and I couldn't see the material that I just copied in my new class, When I go to settings it shows the information of the new class only. In the section Import content says:
" No jobs have been queued
Content import files cannot be downloaded after 500 days."
You can edit the syllabus once you upload it into the course you are copying it into. Copy the content you want into the new course then go into the syllabus and edit it in that new course. hope this helps a little. It's hard to understand exactly what I can say that helps in this situation via text without seeing your screen.
How do you go through the exercise of importing (Duplicating) modules for another class without all the links Breaking? Thx :-)
Usually the links to videos in pages don't break but because Canvas is updating for accessibility and along with new LTI like New Quizzes, then some of the links might get broken in the transfer. I know it's frustrating when you have to go back and check everything but at least it gives you a foundation and you don't have to start from scratch 😀
@Ashlee Espinosa Thank you 😀
Are you not the greatest? Yes, say I. Thank you!
Wow, thanks! 😊
Ashlee, you are getting me through my Comp classes. Thanks!
I can't import files that are over 500mg. What can I do?
are you using the free version of canvas? otherwise you might be out of cloud space.
@@VirtualTeachingPro yes the free version
@@richardpalma2858 then you’re more than likely out of space because the free version is extremely limited. Email me if you need more help or feedback. You can find that adresss in my about tab here on RUclips.
Excellent video, but a little too long.
Thanks so much