Using Canvas for Committees, Projects, etc.
Canvas courses can be used for activities beyond credit-bearing courses. Some of the things currently happening include:
- Online staff training
- Program advising sites, with all students from a program enrolled in a course
- Support for committee work
- Instructional program orientations
There are a few differences to how a Canvas course works in these situations:
- Participants are not automatically enrolled. A member of the group must manually add them.
- Each group must have one or more 'leaders.' These participants will have the same access that an instructor would in a regular course.
- Multiple people can have instructor-level access. In fact, everyone could be given instructor-level access.
To use Canvas for one of these purposes:
- Review the policy on Non-course Canvas Shells Links to an external site.. Note that many requests are often better served by college web sites.
- Fill out the Canvas Shell Request Form Links to an external site..
Once the Canvas space is created, the leader/instructor takes over, adding participants and running the site.
Further reading
Policy/Procedure for Non-course Canvas Shells Links to an external site.