Merging two courses (honors & regular)

[bludwig]

I have one interior design course third period, but I offer it as regular and honors. Even though they are during the same class section, my dashboard shows them as two separate courses. Is there a way I can merge these two sections into one? I want to see all my students when grading instead of having to go from one section to another.

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello there, @bludwig ...

Combining two courses together in Canvas is called cross-listing.  It moves all enrollments from one course to another.  It does not move content.  So, if you have different content in both of these courses, it will not move content from Course B (for example) to Course A.  It only moves enrollments.  Further, once the enrollments are moved, you will only see one of the two courses...because your instructor enrollment has also moved to the one course.  You can see all enrollments for both courses in the "People" page of the course.  The Guide to look at is: How do I cross-list a section in a course as an instructor?.  If you are unable to cross-list courses together yourself, you'll need to have a conversation with your school's local Canvas administrator or someone from your school's Online Learning/eLearning department who should be able to help with this request.

Good luck to you...stay safe, be well.

[MaliaMcClurg]

Can you establish two different gradebooks within the same course? Sometimes honors courses have different assignments and different category weights.

[nwilson7]

@MaliaMcClurg The first part of that is yes, the second part is not really.  They will share a gradebook but when you cross-list, the sections stay separate so you can assign different things to each section.  If something is not assigned to a section, they have no way of knowing it exists.  The weights is the hard part as it is one course shell and that is how you determine the weights.  You technically could do it by assigning certain things to certain sections but I feel like it would be really complicated.  You essentially would have to create a course worth like 200% knowing that students would not have assignments in 100% (half) of that so they would end up with a course worth a normal 100%. 

You also can't do a different grading scheme no matter what tricks you try.  For example, the high school I went to for honors classes what it took to get a solid A was higher like 94-100 was an A instead of 93.  So both courses would need to use the same grading scheme or you would need to turn it off.

Hope this helps!

-Nick