Program page (and not only course pages)?

[stenochstanly]

Hello,

is there a way for the school admins or teachers to create an overreaching Program page for the student/teacher front end of Canvas?

I am only aware of the separate Course pages, which obviously includes the specific content for each course, but when studying a Program (including several courses) the need for an overreaching Program page is obvious.

I am looking for a Program page that can include information, links and files (not in a feed, but in a more static/permanent manner) regarding the whole program, and not specific courses.

Thanks!

[KelleyMeeusen]

Hello stenochstanly:

Canvas does not have a function specific to this, but what we did at my school was develop a Canvas course for this purpose, then enroll all program students and teachers into this course. Typically we assigned the program chair or a designee as the "teacher" in the course to manage content development and editing. Both our faculty and our students found this very useful. You can even organize sections or groups within that Canvas course based on each course in the program.

Let me know if you would like more information on how we did this.

Kelley

[stenochstanly]

Hello! Ok, so this is a missing feature that can be solved with a workaround. I'll post this in the "Idea Conversation". Thank you!

[stenochstanly]

Hello again @KelleyMeeusen !

@Stef_retiredfrom the Community Team told me that your schools solution to create a Course page (placed under Courses in the main menu) for the Program is not a workaround but one of the official ways to do it...

Stefanie also told me to ask you which other ways there are (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Program-page/idi-p/400850)

Do you know the other ways to solve this problem?

Thank you

[KelleyMeeusen]

Hi again, @stenochstanly:

Here is what we did at our school, but first let me clarify that we are a Technical/Professional College, and our students spend a lot of time in program-specific courses, and work as a cohort.

• Created a sub-account for each program that desired this arrangement, How do I create a sub-account?
• Within the sub-accounts, we created a program-wide course that included the enrollments for all courses in the program,
• The programs were responsible for the content of their program-wide course, and the management of that content,
• Within each sub-account, we used the Redirect Tool to create a custom global menu item that points to the program-wide course.How do I create a custom link in my course navigation using the Redirect Tool? This is from Yale University, and it works the same at the account level if you are an admin.

I hope this helps, and you can ask me anything you need to get this working for your school.

Kelley