Canvas / Assistance needed to reverse cross-listed sections

Objective

• To obtain assistance with reversing cross-listed Canvas course sections when:
  • You cross-listed your courses incorrectly and want to reverse the action
  • You cross-listed your courses incorrectly, lost your content, and want to restore it
  • You moved content on your Canvas site and lost course work
  • You want to de-cross-list Canvas course sections

Scope

• CAUTION: DO NOT CROSS-LIST COURSES AFTER THE TERM HAS BEGUN OR STUDENT WORK WILL BE LOST. It is a best practice to avoid cross-listing courses. If faculty wants to crosslist a course after there are submissions and/or grades, student work and grades will be lost in the cross-listed sections
• If a faculty has already cross-listed a course and wants to decross-list (separate) the courses, the Admin user role is the only one that has permission to decross-list. Caution for decross-listing: student work and content will not follow courses that are decrosslisted. Only the primary (the SIS ID course) (see instructions on cross-listing) will retain content and any student work

User

• Canvas Instructor

Environment

• 10185: Canvas

Cause

• Added content to the primary course prior to cross-listing — for example if you are cross-listed sections A, B, and C add your content to section A
• When courses are de-cross-listed, the roster will move into the original Canvas course shell; however, the content will appear only in the primary course (A)
• Faculty cannot de-cross-list courses

Resolution

• Note: Only Admin roles in Canvas can de-cross-list courses. Teacher role access to this feature has been removed
• To de-cross-list a section use this Canvas Guide on how to de-cross-list a section in a course

Notes

• Miami Online offers Canvas training and guides
• Visit the Canvas Status Dashboard to check performance information for Canvas services
• Instructure provides up-to-date instructor documentation and instructions for Canvas
  • Browse all Canvas Guides by product or see the Canvas Instructor Guide

For internal use

• Resolution (ELM)