July 28, 2023
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The following is being sent on behalf of the Instructional Support Team
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Canvas Course Site Creation for Summer or Fall Courses
Course site creation is now available for both Summer and Fall 2023 courses for those who are listed as instructors of record by accessing the UCSB Tools menu in Canvas. Students and TAs are added to Canvas when sites are created, but your site needs to be published in order for students to receive announcements. If you don’t see a course you expect to teach, please email help@collaborate.ucsb.edu.
Additionally, we created Sandbox sites for most instructors that can be used to test features in Canvas or develop content to import into a future course site. If you do not have a Sandbox or would like to request another sandbox, please email help@collaborate.ucsb.edu.
August 1 - Migration of Courses from GauchoSpace
The final migration of courses from GauchoSpace to Canvas will be available in Canvas on August 1, including academic course sites from Fall 2022, Winter 2023 and Spring 2023. Following the migration, if current courses are no longer visible on the dashboard, instructors may need to find and favorite them so that they reappear there.
This will complete the automatic migration to Canvas of all academic course sites from Summer 2021 through Spring 2023. The materials in these courses are meant to be migrated into future course sites in Canvas. Please make sure you are not mistakenly using a migrated course as your current course site, as students will not be added to your migrated course sites. Information on how to use these migrated course materials can be found in this brief video tutorial.
Canvas Course Design Consultations
Setting up a new course site for the first time or redesigning your course for Canvas? Reach out for a one-on-one consultation to meet with one of our experienced instructional designers by emailing help@collaborate.ucsb.edu. We can provide resources and best practices for organizing your course materials and assist you in the design of your course site.
GauchoSpace Decommissioning and Archive of Historical Courses
During Fall 2023 GauchoSpace will no longer be available for instruction and will be decommissioned on December 1, 2023, after which time it will no longer be accessible. We are creating an administrative archive that will house all GauchoSpace courses dating back to Summer 2015. If you wish to save a backup of other older courses from our archives so that they can be copied into Canvas (without student data) in the future, please see these instructions.
Requests for Integration of Third-Party Applications with Canvas
Instructors who are looking to integrate third-party tools into Canvas, such as textbook publisher homework applications, can view approved integrations and request new ones from the UCSB integrations tab of the Canvas website. Please be aware that the process for approving new tools can take several months to complete. Other
Canas Support
Have Canvas questions or need help setting up your course? Reach out to help@collaborate.ucsb.edu
For questions regarding your employment for Summer please contact info@summer.ucsb.edu.
UCSB’s Canvas training site can be accessed here.
Upcoming Canvas training sessions can be found here.
Recorded Canvas training sessions can be found here.
Collaborate Canvas Video tutorials can be found here.
Sincerely,
The Instructional Support Team