New course

[MaryHutto]

I can not remember how to start a new course. 

[Chris_Hofer]

@MaryHutto ...

For starters, are you an instructor or a student?   If you are an instructor, are you looking for tutorials on how to add content to your course?  If you are a student, are you wanting to know where to access courses you've registered for?  If you could please provide more details to your question, that would be fantastic.  Thanks...and looking forward to hearing back from you soon.

[MaryHutto]

Sorry, I am a teacher.  My brain is already fried and I can't for the life of me remember how to do it!

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

@MaryHutto ...

Thanks for clarifying that you are a teacher.  So, another question for you...  are you using the FFT (Free For Teacher) Canvas environment or does your school have a paid Canvas account?  Looking at the URL for your Canvas environment, you can determine if it's FFT or a paid account:

• FFT --> https://canvas.instructure.com
• paid --> https://SchoolName.instructure.com where SchoolName is the name of your school

If you have a FFT account, you should be able to use this Guide:

How do I create a new course from the Dashboard as... - Instructure Community

If you have a paid account, your school may already have a system in place (usually controlled by their IT team) where course shells and students are automatically sent from the SIS (Student Information System) into Canvas.  You wouldn't have to do this on your own.  You'd want to check with your Canvas admin or someone from the Online Learning / eLearning / Distance Learning team at your school for more specifics.

If you have other questions about starting a course...such as building course content, importing content from another course, etc., we can provide you some resources for that as well.  Just let us know.

Hopefully this will help get you started.  Keep us posted.  Thanks!