Most departments, faculties and schools have now developed their presence on Canvas and so have the required course containers for all their programmes of study and teaching courses. These courses will be rolled over at the end of one academic year, to become new containers for the new academic year.

Therefore, the need to create new Canvas courses should be small, and then only for newly approved programmes of study or teaching courses, or tutorial courses which may not yet have been created.

Types of courses in Canvas include:

Programme course
Teaching course
Subject course
Tutorial course

Each type of course may be based on a corresponding Canvas template (Programme template, Paper/module template, Subject template or Tutorial template). These fields are included on the form to request the creation of a new Canvas course, so some pre-thinking about your requirements will be helpful.

If necessary, you may request the creation of a brand-new Canvas course container by completing the required form.

Please do not complete the form if your need is to roll over an existing Canvas course to a new academic year. The tool for that purpose is called Manage Courses and is restricted to Canvas users with the Local Canvas Coordinator (LCC) or Unit Administrator roles. If that is what you need, please contact your LCC.
Further information is provided on the Centre for Teaching and Learning website, under Canvas.