A few questions about Catalog...

[PSU_Tony]

Hi,

We have a group at Penn State looking at Catalog and they have some general questions. I am hoping I could crowdsource those here. Thanks in advance!

• Are students able to register for more than one course at a time?  
• Is the solution accessible and ADA compliant?
• Can open courses be viewed by appointment type? (ie. Graduate student, professor, etc.)
• Can prerequisites be required for courses?
• Is there a capability to allow for autofill fields?
• Is there a connection to Canvas that would allow for the registration list to populate students in a course?
• Can the system show all open courses?
• Is there an automated response sent after a student registers for a course?
• Can a portal be created for staff to view current course and information?
• Can a portal be created for students to view their current and past courses?
• Is there the capability to have email campaign sent out to promote courses?
• Is there the capability to have all email correspondence within the system?
• Can the system send out registration reminder emails?
• Is there a course roster view?
• Can a course completion/non-completed notification be sent out automatically?
• Is there an NCC List
• Is reporting a capability?
• Is there capability to do reporting based on student information? (College)
• Can certificates be automatically produced upon course completion?
• Is there an End of course Faculty Evaluation?
• Technical - Is there Integration with CMS or customization for UX/UI 

[jsowalsk]

I will try and answer your questions:

• Are students able to register for more than one course at a time?  No, not if it is the same start and end date. Otherwise, yes.
• Is the solution accessible and ADA compliant? https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Make-Canvas-Catalog-Accessible/idi-p/377491
• Can open courses be viewed by appointment type? (ie. Graduate student, professor, etc.) No - nothing is role specific. There is only the student role. 
• Can prerequisites be required for courses? Yes, in the modules: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-add-requirements-to-a-module/ta-p/1131 and https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-add-prerequisites-to-a-module/ta-p/1123 to be able to get a certificate of completion.
• Is there a capability to allow for autofill fields? No, in the out of the box option from Canvas it is fill and the blank and you can use user defined fields: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Catalog/How-do-I-enroll-in-a-Catalog-course/ta-p/1737 and https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Catalog/How-do-I-add-a-user-defined-field-to-customize-catalog/ta... 
• Is there a connection to Canvas that would allow for the registration list to populate students in a course? Yes, students flow into the course after they self-enroll and there is an analytics report: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Catalog/How-do-I-view-catalog-analytics/ta-p/1760
• Can the system show all open courses? You can pull this information by Catalog API.
• Is there an automated response sent after a student registers for a course? Yes, they get an email.
• Can a portal be created for staff to view current course and information?  If you create a subcatalog for them to see all the courses available.
• Can a portal be created for students to view their current and past courses? This is in their student dashboard: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Catalog/How-do-I-use-the-Catalog-dashboard/ta-p/1742 and you can choose whether they see their canvas courses and/or just catalog courses: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Catalog/How-do-I-show-Canvas-enrolled-courses-in-the-student-dash...
• Is there the capability to have email campaign sent out to promote courses? No, you can customize the email: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Catalog/What-customization-options-are-available-in-Canvas-Catalo...but only the header and footer and we have a feature to edit the content: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Customize-Canvas-Catalog-Enrollment-and-Certif...
• Is there the capability to have all email correspondence within the system? No just enrollment/registration. 
• Can the system send out registration reminder emails? No.
• Is there a course roster view? No. This is in Canvas in the people option or in the analytics.
• Can a course completion/non-completed notification be sent out automatically? No.
• Is there an NCC List -- Don't know what this is.
• Is reporting a capability? Yes and API pulling. Please see above about analytics.
• Is there capability to do reporting based on student information? (College) No.
• Can certificates be automatically produced upon course completion? Yes. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Catalog/How-do-I-add-a-certificate-of-completion-for-a-Catalog-co... and you will need a requirement in a module for it to be sent to a student and they will need to complete the module.
• Is there an End of course Faculty Evaluation? No, this would need to come from Canvas.
• Technical - Is there Integration with CMS or customization for UX/UI No.

I would be happy to talk with you further about all of this if you would like.

Jessica

[PSU_Tony]

Thanks so much Jessica. Very helpful!!

Tony

[jsowalsk]

You're welcome. Feel free to reach out if you need anything.