Canvas - End of Year Course Maintenance

Wrapping up a school year is an exciting time for all. Packing up materials and resources for the break includes needing to consider our Canvas courses. Please use the information and links below to help you with keeping this process from getting too exciting.

Routine Tips & Tricks

Consider the 4 R's (reflect, revise, refresh, remove)

  • Reflect on ease of use

  • Revise modules to make them more efficient

  • Refresh design elements for content

  • Remove unused or no longer needed content

Optional Safeguards

As a safety measure teachers could save content from past courses.
There are a couple of ways to do this:

  • Canvas Commons

    • Export the Canvas Course and save to computer

    • Canvas Commons is really cool (kind of like cloud storage)

    • Keep in mind, some external tool links may break when shared to Commons.

  • Create a ‘sandbox’ course and copy content to the new course using the Import

  • Export entire course and save the file to a secure place (MacBook or Google Drive)

Screenshare Tutorial

This video showcases how to do some basic course clean-up.