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Having a consistent naming pattern for district Canvas courses is important for a number of reasons. Below you will find the standard naming pattern, and how you can apply this to your classes.
Naming Pattern:
[Course Name] [Teacher Last Name] [Term & Period(s)] [School Year]
Examples:
Algebra IIB | Smith | S2 | P1 P2 | 2019-2020
Ag Economics - Johnson - Q3 - P5 - 2019-2020 (All Ag courses agree to use Ag instead of Agriculture to shorten the name)
Field & Forensics Kahn Q3 P2 P4 2019-2020 (This example represents a blocked skinny course {P2} taught as a quarter course)
Course names may be truncated as long as they are uniform across departments and are easily identified, as in the examples above.
How to Rename Existing Courses:
Open the course you wish to rename.
Go to "Settings" and "Course Details"
Modify whatever is in the "Name" field. (Be careful, there is often far more text in this box than it actually shows.)
Add the new course name according to the naming pattern requested by the district.
[Course Name] [Teacher Last Name] [Term & Period(s)] [School Year]
The "Course Code" can be named as you wish. This will show up on the Card-View on the Canvas Dashboard, as well as in the blue link at the top of the course.
Click the maroon "Update Course Details" button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.
The pic to the right shows where to edit
The pic below shows the resulting appearance on the Dashboard.
Repeat this for the remainder of your published courses.
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