Show course code in Course Import tool?

[pstefanuca]

I cannot seem to find a way to show the course code including section when doing imports. We use a master course and A-F for sections and faculty cannot differentiate the courses with the same name when importing between semesters. Does anyone have a work around?

Thanks!

[Chris_Hofer]

 @pstefanuca ‌...

This is just one idea for you...there may be other solutions from other Canvas Community members.  For all of our "master" courses within our "Master Term" of Canvas, we give them a course number that starts out with the letter "M" (for "master") and then the six-digit course number.  For example, our "Computer Lit-Microsoft Office" course number is M103-159.  For each of the sections that are offered per semester, each of those sections gets its own course shell in Canvas.  A 5-digit CRN (Course Reference Number) is appended on to the first six-digits.  So, you might have a course number like 103-159-10001 or 103-159-10002.

All our course shells are brought over from our Banner SIS.  One of our IT guys has configured things where in the course "Settings" page, it looks like this:

Name: Computer Lit-Microsoft Office (10001)

Course Code: 10001

SIS ID: 103-159-10001.202020  (Those last six digits help determine the term.)

So, when it comes time for instructors to use the Course Import Tool, they see Computer Lit-Microsoft Office (10001) listed under the proper term of the drop-down list where they can choose what course they want to import content from.

I hope this helps, Pam.

[pstefanuca]

Thank you Chris! That is a good option for us which we will likely implement long term but until then, we were hoping for a short term edit I could make to courses manually. It seems that if I change a course name to include the section at the admin level, the import drop down still only shows the name without the section code. The only place it shows up for the faculty member (acting as faculty), is in the search field but only if I start typing the name or code. It would be nice if it showed in the drop down since the name has been changed. I'll see if anyone else has ideas...My other option I guess is to try csv upload changes, but I think we might still run into the same thing.

Pam

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi  @pstefanuca ...

Here's an example of what an instructor might see when importing course content from one course to another via the Course Import Tool:

As you can see, it's easy for this instructor to determine which course to select.  The number in parentheses is the five-digit CRN number I referenced in my previous reply.