Canvas Policies

Course sites for the next semester are created automatically as soon as the course is available on the faculty portal. Faculty are added automatically as soon as they are added as the instructor on the portal. Students are added two weeks before classes start. Course sites are created in unpublished status, so instructors must publish their course sites for them to become available to students.

Unlike in Sakai, once a course site has been published it cannot be unpublished. Instead, course sites automatically become unavailable to students two weeks after the last day of the term. Instructors always retain access to their course sites, although they cannot make changes to the site after the end of the term. 

Please contact the CIS Help Desk at helpdesk@hmc.edu. We can manually make a site temporarily available again for a set period of time.

Unlike with Sakai, where all of The Claremont Colleges shared a single instance of Sakai, each of the colleges has their own instance of Canvas. However, all of the colleges have set up "federated trusts" between their instances. This means that students should only login to their home college's instance of Canvas and they will see all of their course sites, even if they are cross-registered in courses at another college. We have a list of all of the instances of Canvas at The Claremont Colleges for your convenience.

Please email the CIS Help Desk at helpdesk@hmc.edu with your request. We have disabled the ability for instructors to add people manually to their courses due to a problem with duplicate accounts that were inadvertantly created during the spring semester when we didn't have federated trust set up. We will revisit enabling the ability for instructors to add people manually once we have fixed the problem of the duplicate accounts.

Instructors can't change the official name of their course, but they can give them a nickname. To add a nickname to a site, click the More Options icon on the course card of the course that you would like to change the nickname of. Enter the nickname in the Nickname field, and click Apply. The nickname will now appear on your course card.

Click on the Courses button in the left hand toolbar. Scroll down and click on the All Courses link. You'll be able to see all of your courses. You can also favorite a course to see it in your dashboard again.