Tracking Item Completion Across Multiple Courses

Question

We are about to launch an AI Literacy module that will be required for all first-year students and we want to make it available to any faculty member to incorporate into their course. We are trying to figure out a way that, if a student has this assigned to them by multiple instructors, the student only needs to complete the work once and then all of the faculty can see that the work has been completed.

In my brain, the ideal way that this would work is that the module would live in a Canvas course, an instructor could link their course to this course and then the completion status for each of their students is fed back to their main course site without the instructor having any insight into the actions of any students other than their own. On the technical side, I imagine it workings like this:

* The instructor connects their course (Course A) to the AI Literacy Course (Course B).
* This assigns the content of Course B to the student enrollments of Course A.
* An assignment in Course A can pull the completion status and submission of a given assignment in Course B. This allows the instructor to see the work without the student having to. resubmit it in Course A.

My workaround for now is to:

* Have the students generate a file as part of the work in Course B.
* Instructors creating a File Upload assignment in Course A.
* Students submitting the file from Course B in Course A.

Any thoughts are welcome.

BruceRichards_CCHs · Answer

Hello James.

Amy reason why your Student Information System (SIS) is not being considered?

A suggestion would be if you make this a course with the AI Literacy module, and it will be required for all first-year students, would it be easier to use your Student Information System (SIS) to auto-enroll those students into the course? Then once students complete the course, they would upload a screenshot of their completion to an assignment in any course that Instructors would need that evidence. The SIS would also support the enrollment of transfer students.

melodyc_lam · Answer

@james_whalley

Curiosity & thought — if this is to be required of all first year students, would having a separate course for all first year students with the AI literacy module be a better idea? You'd need to establish who is going to hold the students accountable or what can hold students accountable (potentially an 'assigned' course in the SIS?) — or, using your idea, if there's an assignment in Course A, just pull the student completion every night from Course B into the assignment without having the instructor link the courses together.

One thought I had is how would you manage withdrawals (or late adds) from a course after the course is "linked"; there may need to be a process to ensure your enrollments in Course B are current.