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Canvas End of Year Tips
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Prepping your Canvas for the End of the School Year
Students can access the course until June 12.
Teachers have access to edit their course and grades through June 15.
Students will have read-only access to courses in their Past Enrollments. This means they can view, but not alter course material and submissions. At the district level, we have restricted students from viewing Quizzes in their concluded courses.
See the box below for how to disable students from read-only access.
📦 Prep Your Course for Read-Only
In the spirit of lifelong-learning, we encourage you to allow read-only access for students. In the past, if you would have allowed students to keep a course notebook then you might allow them to continue having access to the Canvas materials.
However, you can consider "prepping" your course for read-only access by unpublishing any answer keys (or remove links) or other materials you might hold until a student has attempted an assignment.
🤝Sharing Canvas Content with Colleagues and Making Course Adjustments ✨
You might choose to export your Canvas course for a few reasons:
- A just-in-case back-up of your work
- If there is potential you might leave the district, this IMSCC zip file can be imported into another Learning Management system
- To share with another colleague (although there are other methods for that)
👉You could also make a copy of your course:
- Since you won't have your course shells for next year's classes until closer to the fall, you can create a new course to begin preparing. Teach multiple preps/courses? You can create as many Sandbox Courses as your heart desires (just make sure to name appropriately to avoid confusion).
- Share with another teacher: When you make the copy you can select the specific content you are willing to share, give it a name (i.e. Bullock Shared US History) and then add your colleague(s) as a teacher in the course.
You could also export your course to Canvas Commons:
- If you don't know who your replacement will be but would like to make your course available, you can export it to Commons where it can be viewable to all Canvas users or just P-CCS teachers.
- ⚠ This step should be done before the course's end date.
📼Sharing Video Content via Canvas Studio
While it is best practice for instructional videos to be made by the existing teacher, it might be helpful for others to reference your video lessons. If you would like to share your video lessons, we recommend this workflow:
- Upload videos to Canvas Studio, if not there already
- Organize videos into Collections (i.e. Algebra 1)
- Instructions to move Media into Collections (if you didn't originally set it up that way)
- Share the Collection (with editing rights) with a colleague
Share the Collection (with editing rights) with a colleague
📂Make a Back-Up to the Back-Up
- Export Grades From the Grades tab in a Canvas course, use the Export button to download a CSV file of your final grades.
- Export or Copy Content Using the Export Course Content tool in Course Settings will allow you to save a file export package of your Course outside of Canvas.
- Download Additional Data Student data can be downloaded in several areas of a course in addition to the Gradebook. The Learning Mastery Gradebook has an export of student Outcomes. Quizzes include Statistics with both student analysis and item analysis reports. → Trainer Tip: Quiz Statistics can only be downloaded per quiz, not entire course