Global Navigation - Admin: Courses

How do I use the Courses page in an account? 
 

You can view courses in your account in the Courses page. You can view and filter courses by term and teacher and search for courses individually. You can also sort search result columns in ascending or descending order.

Open Account

Open Account

In Global Navigation, click the Admin link [1], then click the name of the account [2].

View Courses Page

View Courses Page

When you open an account, the account defaults to the Courses page.

The Courses page displays all courses in the account. The page is designed with global settings at the top of the page [1] followed by the generated course data [2].

All fields are responsive to the width of the browser, which can be adjusted as needed to display course data.

 

Sort and Search Courses

Sort and Search Courses

The Courses page defaults to searching by courses. To search for a specific course, type the name of the course, course code, SIS ID, or Canvas course ID in the search field [1].

To search courses by teacher (instructor), click the Sort by menu [2] and select the Teacher option. The search field text updates to show courses are being searched by teacher. You can search by the instructor's name (user ID, SIS ID, and login ID are not supported search parameters).

To filter your search to exclude courses with no student enrollments, click the Hide courses without students checkbox [3].

 

Add Course

Add Course

To add a course to the account Links to an external site., click the Add Course button.

View Courses

View Courses

The Courses page paginates filter and search results in sets of 15 courses and are ordered by SIS ID. Each paginated page displays in a table format but columns are responsive according to the widest column for that page.

Results display the name of the course [1], SIS ID (if applicable) [2], term [3], teacher [4], subaccount [5], and number of active students [6].

Except for the Student column, each column heading can be sorted in ascending or descending order (alphabetically or numerically).

View Course State and Instructors

Published courses display a check mark next to the course name [1].

If a course includes more than two teachers, the Teacher column displays a Show More link [2]. This link can be clicked to expand the full list of teachers.

Manage Course

Open Course

To open a course, click the name of the course [1]. To view user details for a teacher in the course, click the name of the teacher [2].

For quick access to course data, you can manually add a user to the course [3], view course statistics [4], and view course settings [5].