Instructor Page

A rookie question, but is there a way to automatically propagate an instructor profile page across all his/her courses? (Rather than copy/pasting for every course.)

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MDagne

Hi. I think there's three options for managing this.

Copy To is the built in feature over copy/paste, so you make the Page once and send it off to the other courses.
Share to Commons and then have it to download into any other courses you want to add it to.
Use a Blueprint course. This one is probably overkill unless you're teaching many courses and have several pieces of content you'd like to "manage" in one place.

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SusanNiemeyer

No, you cannot create a page within a Canvas course and then have it auto-populate to other courses. However, there are some options:

Note that your global Canvas account has a place for you to upload your photo, profile, and so on. Just click on the circle in the upper left-hand corner of your screen. All of your students in all of your courses will be able to see what you upload there.

If you also want a separate page, you may want to create one in a development course shell ("sandbox course"). Then you can "import" the page into each individual Canvas course. Note that "importing" is the way to go, not copying and pasting.

MDagne

Hi. I think there's three options for managing this.

Copy To is the built in feature over copy/paste, so you make the Page once and send it off to the other courses.
Share to Commons and then have it to download into any other courses you want to add it to.
Use a Blueprint course. This one is probably overkill unless you're teaching many courses and have several pieces of content you'd like to "manage" in one place.

petern

Hi. Yes, I've had this same question myself. Initially I went down the blueprints route, but I found this easier.

Create a course that will act as a template for other courses. Create whatever pages you want (instructor profile page for example) and change any settings to what defaults you would like.
In course settings, enable course template.

Any new courses created in that account will use that course template. The only downside is the template can't be applied after new courses are created, only at the creation of new courses.

More details are here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Guide/How-do-I-enable-a-course-as-a-course-template/ta-p/463700

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