SDCCD Canvas Accounts & Shells

The URL for SDCCD's Canvas instance is: sdccd.instructure.com

Students

If you are a Mesa student, then you'll get a Canvas account created for you once you are registered for a course. You should be able to login on the first day of your class, using your Student ID number and your birthdate as your password (mmddyyyy).

Faculty

If you are a Mesa instructor, then you'll get a Canvas account automatically created for you once you are assigned to teach a course in the District schedule. You do not need to request a Canvas account. You'll login using your employee ID and your birthdate as your password (mmddyyyy).

Non-Classroom Faculty, Classified Professionals, Administrators

You will need to request a Canvas account. Here is District's Request a Canvas Account form that you can submit to request manual creation of a Canvas account. Only non-classroom faculty, classified professionals, and administrators need to submit this as students and faculty will get automatically created Canvas accounts. You'll receive an email confirmation from District with your login credentials once your account has been created.

Login URL: https://sdccd.instructure.com/

Students

• Username: your 10 digit Student ID

• Password: your 8 digit birthdate (mmddyyyy)

Faculty

• Username: your 10 digit Employee ID

• Password: your 8 digit birthdate (mmddyyyy)

Non-Classroom Faculty, Classified Professionals, Administrators

• You should receive an email from District with your Canvas account information once your account has been manually created.

Students do not need to request Canvas shells. Students are automatically given access to the Canvas shells corresponding to the courses in which they are enrolled.

Need a Canvas shell for a course you're teaching?

Canvas teaching shells will be automatically created for you based on what you are assigned to teach in the District schedule. That means that if you are scheduled to teach a class, you should have a Canvas teaching shell available for that CRN when you login to Canvas. It also means that those Canvas shells are created automatically on a specific date (decided by District) after the District schedule for the corresponding semester has gone live.

• Remember if you intend to use the Canvas shell for your course, then you'll need to publish it for it to be visible/available to students.

• If you don't plan to use Canvas, then you'd just leave the shell untouched and it remains unpublished/invisible to students.

Warning About Teaching Shells

Unfortunately, with the way that the integration currently works between Campus Solutions and Canvas, some faculty have already lost their Canvas teaching shells. This happens when a change is made to the section in Campus Solutions by your scheduler. The Canvas shell gets deleted and lots of work can be unexpectedly lost. For this reason District recommends requesting a development shell for your course to which you won't ever lose access.

Perhaps You Need a Development Shell?

A development shell is a Canvas shell that is not linked to a CRN and therefore will not enroll actual Mesa students. It is helpful if you are developing a course for future delivery, or you want a "clean" copy of your course that functions as a "master copy," or if you are working on a professional development course for Canvas. To request a development shell, you can call 24/7 Canvas Support at 1-844-612-7422 to make that request. Keep in mind that you will need to copy from your development shell into your teaching shell in order to make your materials available to students.

This Canvas Guide will help: How to I copy course content from one shell to another?

When you import one Canvas shell into another, it actually merges the two shells. So, if your development shell contains old outdated content that you want to replace with your new teaching shell content, then it's best to first empty the development shell.

1. Reset your development shell (Settings > Reset Course Content) This will empty out your development shell.

2. Then import your teaching shell into your development shell. This Canvas guide will help: How to I copy course content from one shell to another?

Sure. You can do that, if it's already available to you. It might not be available to you yet. (Canvas shells are created automatically based on the classes in the schedule.)

Most likely you'll be making several changes to prepare the course for the new semester. Unfortunately, with the way that the integration currently works between Campus Solutions and Canvas, it's possible to lose access to your teaching shell if any change is made to the section in PeopleSoft by your scheduler. The Canvas shell gets deleted and lots of work can be unexpectedly lost. For this reason District recommends requesting a development shell to which you won't ever lose access. That's why making your revisions to your development shell is the safest method.

This process must be completed before creating content in the teaching shells.

1. Contact Canvas support through chat located at the help menu when logged in to Canvas. Or call 24/7 Canvas Phone support at 1-844-612-7422.

2. Provide your 10-digit SDCCD Employee ID number.

3. Provide the 5-digit course number(s) of the course(s) you would like to cross-list and determine the parent course you plan on teaching out of.

Two Steps

1. Here's the link to District's LTI installation request form.

2. Follow-up email to Trenton Tidwell (ttidwell@sdccd.edu) who handles these requests at District.

Canvas Teacher App

Canvas Teacher on GooglePlay and iTunes Store

• Canvas Teacher iOS Guide

• Canvas Teacher Android Guide

Canvas Student App

Canvas Student on GooglePlay and iTunes Store

• Canvas Student iOS Guide

• Canvas Student Android Guide

Canvas Teacher App, SDCCD Login

https://www.youtube.com/embed/oHsB4Sfnqk0

Adding a Colleague to your Course

As the teacher of your Canvas course shell you can enroll other Canvas accounts into that course shell. You will not be able to assign them the role of student, however. (Students will be automatically enrolled into your courses.) To enroll colleagues into your course:

• Go to People on the course menu.

• Click the "+ People" button.

• Search for your colleague by email address (or 10 digit ID)

• Select the desired role and click "Next."

• If Canvas finds an account with that email/ID, you'll be prompted to select the account and add it.

• If Canvas doesn't find an account with that email address, you'll be prompted to search again.

• Role: You won't be able to assign the role of "Student" to the account you are enrolling. Choose from the available roles.

Check the Start/End dates of your Canvas course by logging into your Canvas course shell and navigating to: Settings > Course Details > Start Date & End Date By default they are set to the start and end dates of your course as listed in the District schedule.

If your Canvas course is published then students will automatically be able to access it on the Start Date. On the End Date your Canvas shell will automatically become unavailable to your students.

Instructors can edit the Start Date and End Date of their Canvas shells to allow students access to their Canvas shells outside of those default availability dates/times.

Here is the list that District maintains of Software and Products Available at SDCCD.