Preparing for Fall Semester in Canvas
Greetings Faculty!
As the Fall semester quickly approaches and the transition to Canvas continues, we want to remind you of items that you will need to take care of and available support.
Access to Canvas
To access Canvas go to the UM Canvas Login page, select the Net ID login option, and login with your Net ID. Fall 2024 shells are listed in the Unpublished Courses section of your Dashboard in Canvas and should remain unpublished until you are ready to make them visible to Ñý¼§Ö±²¥. An editable UM themed template has been applied to your courses.
Canvas Training
To get started with using Canvas, complete the self-enrollable, self-paced , which will provide the basics for working in Canvas and using the UM template that has been applied to your Fall course shells. Please do this training prior to participating in the live training, particularly the Canvas Course Building Workshops. Additional live trainings are posted on , or you can and review our set of Tip Sheets. A list of helpful resources can be found at the end of this email.
Access to Migrated Moodle Courses
Moodle courses going back to Fall 2021 have been migrated to Canvas and you will automatically see migrated courses from Spring 2023 through Spring 2024. Summer 2024 courses will be migrated in early September. If you need to access a course prior to Spring 2023 or don’t see a course you need access to after checking your Canvas Dashboard, please and a support tech will get you access as soon as possible. To have these courses serve as an archive of your Moodle courses, migrated courses are “view-only" and cannot be edited. If there is content in these migrated courses that you would like to use, the next step will be to import the migrated content into your Fall 2024 course shell, where you will have full editing ability.
Importing Course Content from a Migrated Course
After you have viewed the migrated course and are ready to import it, carefully follow the steps outlined in the Importing Moodle Course Content Tip Sheet. Once imported into your Fall 2024 course shell, you will have full editing ability. If you need further assistance with importing, you can watch our or email canvas.umt@umontana.edu to request help.
Message to Students about Using Canvas
Students will be notified through various campus communication channels about where to access the Canvas login and how to access a student tutorial called UM Passport to Canvas. If you email your Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ prior to the semester start, it would be helpful if you also let them know that UM will be using Canvas instead of Moodle this fall.
There are two versions of the Canvas student tutorial. The public version of the course is linked in the sample email below and does not require Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ to login. Students can access the other version of the course from the assignment in the template in your course shell. This “assignment” version includes a quiz for them to complete and take a screenshot of their score to submit as an assignment. Your course would need to be published (visible) for Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ to do that version of the tutorial.
A sample message you can use or adapt in a welcome email to your Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ is below. It includes a link to the public student Canvas tutorial and a tutorial called Strategies for Successful Online Learning.
Starting Fall 2024, the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ is using the new learning management system, Canvas, for all online and blended courses and for any course supplements for face-to-face courses. To help orient you to Canvas and learn how to navigate, engage in activities, check grades and edit your Canvas profile, please complete the tutorial for Ñý¼§Ö±²¥. No special login is required for the tutorial. To access your courses, login to Canvas at the UM Canvas Login page using your Net ID login. Once our course is open, you will see our course link on your Canvas Dashboard. Another helpful tutorial is the self-enrollable .
Teaching Assistants or Secondary Instructors
If you are working with a TA or Secondary Instructor and need them added to your courses, please make your request via Solutions Center using the . You will need to provide the course CRN, their first/last name, university email, and 790#, and indicate if they are a TA or instructor. Please clarify if your TA or secondary instructor should not have editing permissions. Our Canvas Admins will create their account and will enroll them in your course.
Panopto
Panopto videos used in Moodle will automatically be moved from your Panopto Moodle account to your Panopto Canvas account between August 19-20. Starting August 14th, the transfer process will begin and Panopto will be down overnight from 8 PM-8 AM on both Aug 19th and 20th. Starting August 21st your Panopto account and videos can be accessed within Canvas. If you need to access your Panopto videos via Canvas prior to August 14th, contact UMOnlineIDs@umontana.edu as soon as possible to move your videos for you. If you are new to the Panopto video platform or want to update your knowledge of it, you can self-enroll in the tutorial
LTIs (Third Party Tools)
As always, if you use third party tools outside of the LMS (such as Cengage, Pearson, etc.), make sure they have been previously tested for accessibility, and that you can find those tools in the Canvas environment to avoid delays in adding them. All third-party tools must be (ATS). Please allow enough time before the start of the semester (at least 4-6 weeks) for testing. If you are uncertain if a third-party tool has been tested, contact UMOnlineIDs@umontana.edu.
H5P
The transition to Canvas resulted in a new partnership account with H5P. All Moodle H5P content will need to be moved to Canvas for you and managed by UMOnline IDs. If you use H5Ps, email UMOnlineIDs@umontana.edu to request that your H5P content is duplicated into the new UMOnline H5P account. An ID will be assigned to your H5P migration and will keep you informed on the data transfer and when content will become available. While you can no longer create H5P content directly in the LMS, you can build using a free H5P manager like . An ID can help provide advice on how to manage H5P resources going forward.
Thank you for your action on the items listed above and your continued engagement with this transition to Canvas. If you have questions, please email canvas.umt@umontana.edu and a member of the Canvas Implementation Team will help you.
Best regards,
The Canvas Implementation Team
Summary of Helpful Resources
- Live Canvas Training Opportunities – Check
- On-Demand Resources
- Canvas
- UMOnline Tip Sheets
- Help Tickets
- to the UM Solutions Center for General Canvas Questions, Merging/Duplicating Rosters, Accessing Migrated Moodle Courses, External Tool Consultations, and/or to Request Sandboxes or Non-Instructional Shells
- Email us with your questions: umonlineIDs@umontana.edu
- Signup for 1:1 to support your specific course and needs
- Email or Office Hours with a UMOnline Instructional Designer