Now is the time when instructors copy over their previous semester’s course into a new Canvas shell for the upcoming semester. Here are five helpful instructional tasks that you should do after importing content from one Canvas course to another:

1. Run the Link Checker and the Accessibility Checker
   • Canvas has an integrated Link Checker to validate that your course links work for students.
   • UDOIT is the accessibility checker within Canvas. Running UDOIT in your course can find accessibility barriers within your course content, and advise you on how to fix them. Here are directions on how to scan your course with UDOIT 
   • Find out more about Digital Accessibility at UW-Madison and the resources available at UW.
     
     
2. Confirm course access dates and roles 
   • Check the dates for course sections (Settings/Course Details) so you know when students have access. 
   • Check the People tab to see who has access to your course. Work with your Academic Program Manager and/or Teaching and Learning Staff to add non-student roles.
3. Manage old announcements
   • Delete any unneeded announcements from the previous course offering.
   • Unpublish any that you will reuse and check their release dates for your current students.
     
     
4. Verify dates and status of assignments, quizzes, and course content
   • Update availability and due dates for assignments, quizzes, and modules for the current term.
   • Ensure all necessary content is published and accessible to students for your desired course schedule. You can publish your course while holding back publishing modules that you are still working on, or occur later in the semester.
   • Ensure the Canvas Gradebook is correctly set up for automatic or manual grading.
   • Check that your videos are embedded in the course content as you expect them to be if they were in a previous course that was copied into the current term.
     
     
5. Check textbook and/or external tool integrations.
   • Ensure that all integration links and access codes are functioning correctly.
   • Contact the external tool support or teaching@wsb.wisc.edu if there is an issue.
     
     

Contact Teaching and Learning Support for your teaching and instructional technology needs. Please direct students to the DoIT Helpdesk if they have any hardware technology issues.