After opening the course you wish to update, complete the following steps:
Canvas
After opening your sub-account, complete the following steps:
Click Settings.
Click the Quotas tab.
Type the new Course Quota in the field provided.
Click Update.
Note that in general, only manually created courses should be moved to different sub-accounts. If courses created via SIS upload are moved to a different sub-account (e.g., a custom sub-account), they will be moved back to their default sub-account by a subsequent SIS upload.
After opening the course, complete the following steps:
Converting from CTools to Canvas
There are three ways to get content from CTools into Canvas. A combination of these three options may best fit your needs:
1. Start fresh in Canvas
Recommended if:
Beginning of term information
Course availability
Beginning six months before a term's start date, Canvas course sites for all classes are automatically made available to instructors. The courses are updated twice a day with enrollment data changes from M-Pathways.
Read more about similarities and differences between CTools and Canvas.
Assignments → Canvas Assignments
All assignments will be in a single assignment group called "Assignments"
You may choose to add additional Assignment Groups in Canvas to organize your assignments.
Canvas will not include CTools model answers, private notes or all-purpose items
The Canvas Course Manager tool allows U-M instructors and users in specific roles to:
Add sections to an existing Canvas course
Add non-UM external users to a Canvas course
You can find step-by-step instructions on using the Course Management tool by opening the tool and clicking Help in the tool's window.
The Course Management tool is not visible to students (i.e., it does not appear in the left hand navigation for them). You can verify this if you like by checking Student View for your course.
Groups
Groups are like a smaller version of a Canvas course site. They're used as a collaborative tool for students working together on group projects and assignments.
Creating Student Groups and adding students
Manually | Automatically | Self-Sign Up
Available Integrations
External apps provide additional functionality when added to a course. Instructors can add apps to their course in two ways:
Enable U-M preconfigured external apps (Box, Piazza, LectureTools, My Media, Media Gallery, i>clicker)
Add additional apps through the Canvas app store
Outline of the process
1. Set up Cyberduck (a WebDAV client) on your computer and use it to download CTools Resources to your desktop.
2. Drag the files or folders to Canvas Files.