Is there a way to save a course as a .pdf for offline viewing?

[NickAllen]

I've serached and cannot seem to find a way to save a course or course pages a .pdf files... exporting as a .imscc file does not help, I'd like to save the course or each page of the course as .pdf files.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[werner_huysman1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

you could try an epub export, as described here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-view-course-content-offline-as-an-ePub-...

Then, you could use an online epub to pdf converter tool, like this f.e.: https://www.pdf2go.com/epub-to-pdf

[NickAllen]

I'll give that method a try, thank you for the response!

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @NickAllen ...

@werner_huysman1 has given you an interesting work-around...and is one that I have not tried on my own, but it's worth investigating!

Regarding the IMSCC download you mentioned...  when you download that kind of file, you can change the .imscc file extension to .zip, and then you can unzip the file.  This is covered in the blue box at the top of this Guide: How do I export a Canvas course? - Canvas Community.  You'll see several folders, and some of them will most likely include HTML files that contain the content of your course.

Not sure if this will be of any help, but I wanted to at least provide this information for you.  Take care...be well.

[NickAllen]

Interesting, that does seem to work to make it into a .zip file, then I suppose I could patch together some of the pages and assignments into a pdf somehow.  It would be nice if canvas just had an "export to pdf" function!  Thanks for your help.