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The Learning Technologies Team has created new Canvas templates to fit with the new Canvas User Interface and based on student and faculty feedback. Using these new templates will help create consistency among iSchool Canvas courses, which will help students more easily navigate course content.

Course Templates

The templates below are new and updated as of August 15, 2018. See a list of notable changes from the old templates and how to import a template into your course.

Course Schedule Template (1 column)
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Best for in-person (residential) courses that only meets once a week. Features a Course Schedule page with 1 column.

Course Schedule Template (2 columns)
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Best for in-person (residential) courses that meets twice a week. Features a Course Schedule page with 2 columns.

Course Schedule Template (3 columns)
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Best for in-person (residential) courses that meets three times a week. Features a Course Schedule page with 3 columns.

Module Template
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Best for online or hybrid courses with medium amount of content per module. Features Module pages that shows all module content (Overview, Readings, Lectures, etc.) at once.

Notable changes from the old templates

Importing a template

Download one of the templates above to your computer.
Go to your Canvas course > Settings > Import > Import Content into this Course.
Select "Canvas Course Export Package" and choose the .imscc (template) file that you had previously downloaded.
Choose to import all content, and then click on "Import".

If you plan to reuse content from a previous course, import one of these new templates first before importing content from the old course. See instructions here.