Push content directly into home and syllabus sections

[ranjith_valliye]

Hi Team,

I am importing course into canvas which is getting added into modules sections and which is working fine. But what i want is when i import a course in a canvas then a content specific for home section and a content specific for syllabus section should get added to the respective sections automatically. which is not happening currently. How can i do that or i have to create a content for these sections manually?

[nwilson7]

@ranjith_valliye It sounds like you are exporting a full course package from some other tool/system.  If this is the case, the export would need to follow the IMS standards for course packages and thus provide the correct framework for Canvas (or any LMS that follows IMS standards) to import into those areas.

If you take one of your Canvas courses and export it, you will see it exports as a .imscc file.  You should be able to change that extension to a .zip and then extract the folder to see all the pieces that make up an IMS common cartridge file.  You will see a certain structure that IMS uses.

There re probably others in this forum that know more about how it all works.

-Nick

[NicoletteStaley · Accepted solution]

@ranjith_valliye Canvas will automatically import content to the syllabus and homepage of a course if you are using the native Syllabus and Home page functionality.  If for some reason the content isn't importing, I suspect that the content is utilizing some sort of LTI or other external tool.  Typically an LTI or external tool will need to installed (and possibly the target links adjusted) at either the instance and/or course level before the content will work correctly after the import.

When an import is completed in a course though, Canvas will notify the user about any possible issues (like incorrectly configured LTIs) on the Content Migrations page of the course.  These error messages might help you determine what is causing the issues with your home and syllabus sections importing to the course.