====== CPH Canvas Course Template ======
===== Courses Reusing Content from a Previous Semester- One Change for Spring 2025 Semester =====
**Spring 2025 Update**
Due to the recent CPH website update, the link to advising information has changed. Please update this link in your course by following the steps below. This is the only change for spring; you do not need to import anything new.
- Click on **Modules**
- In the "Resources at Your Fingertips" module, click on the **Advising** page
- Click on **Edit**
- Click on the words "advising staff"
- Click **Link Options**
- Remove the old URL in the Link box and paste https://cph.temple.edu/student-life/advising in the Link box
- Click **Done**
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click **Save**
===== About the Template =====
All CPH courses are required to use the CPH Canvas Template to provide a consistent look and feel across all college courses and meet Quality Matters standards.
*If this is your first time creating a CPH Canvas course,** email cphithelp@temple.edu to request access** to the template in the Canvas Commons. The **template must be added before** any course content is added to your Canvas course. Please do not add it over content already in your course.
Watch the [[https://temple.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f66597f4-0076-4538-b707-aecc013e0bd2|CPH Canvas Template Tour]] (video 8:14) for an overview of how the template works.
===== Step 1: Create the Canvas Course Shell =====
- Log into [[https://canvas.temple.edu|canvas.temple.edu]]
- Click on the **Course Tools** area found on the vertical global navigation menu (toward the bottom)
- Click on **Banner**
- Click on **+** (next to the name of the course)
- Click on **Create** (It may take a few minutes for the shell to be created; so check back to see if it is listed in your Canvas course list)
===== Step 2: Import the Template =====
If this is the first time you are teaching in CPH, **you must email cphithelp@temple.edu requesting access to the CPH Canvas Template found in the Canvas Commons.** You will then import the Canvas Template from the Commons into your course shell following the steps outlined in the instructions below.
==== New Courses ====
Use the full version of the template, following the instructions in the video below.
**Video (1:50):** [[https://temple.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=55866752-9ec5-4a9c-a1cb-aed3012fd20e&start=0 | CPH Canvas Template- Use to Build a Course from Scratch]]
If after importing the template, you need to set the homepage, please follow these steps:
- Click on **Home** in your course
- Click on **Choose Homepage** on the right side of the page
- If the "Welcome Students" page is listed as the "Pages Front Page," select **Pages Front Page**
- If not, click on **Change**
- Locate the "Welcome Students" page to make the front page and click on the three dots all the way to the right
- Click **Use as Front Page**
- Click on **Home**
- Click on **Choose Home Page**
- Click on **Pages Front Page**
- Click **Save**
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==== Courses Reusing Content from a Previous Semester- One Change for Spring 2025 Semester ====
**Spring 2025 Update**
Due to the recent CPH website update, the link to advising information has changed. Please update this link in your course by following the steps below. This is the only change for spring; you do not need to import anything new.
- Click on the **Advising** page
- Click on **Edit**
- Click on the words "advising staff"
- Click **Link Options**
- Remove the old URL in the Link box and paste https://cph.temple.edu/student-life/advising in the Link box
- Click **Done**
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click **Save**
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Use the template that contains only the updates to the previous version of the template used; follow the instructions in the video below. Areas updated for Fall 2023 are listed below (if you would prefer to manually update these areas, please scroll to the bottom of this page):
- Beginning Fall 2023, the Academic Support and Student Resources and the Policies pages have been moved to pages on the CPH portal so that the content on those pages will be updated on the portal moving forward without faculty having to make updates to their course.
- Advising page
- Technology Requirements page
**Video (4:31):** [[https://temple.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=932a6c44-2cee-4005-913e-b02e01464044&start=0| CPH Canvas Template - Use to Build Based on an Existing Course]]
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===== Step 3: Add Content =====
Add content to your course.
Please email **cphithelp@temple.edu** for any questions.
===== Past Updates =====
====Fall 2024====
Click on "Homepage" below to follow instructions to update the homepage.
Due to the recent transition from Barnes & Noble to Follett, the Temple University book store link on the course homepage has changed. Please update this link in your course by following the steps below. This change is the only update for fall; you do not need to import anything new.
- On the homepage, click on **Edit**
- Click on **Temple University Bookstore**
- Click on **Link Options**
- Remove the old link in the Link box and paste https://temple.edu/bookstore in the Link box
- Click **Done**
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click **Save**
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====Fall 2023====
Click on each section below to follow the instructions to update the four areas.
On the Advising page, replace the text with the text below:
If you are an undergraduate, MPH, or MSW student, please contact your academic advisor with questions. Please use this link to access information about the [[https://cph.temple.edu/academics/academic-advising-and-student-resources/academic-advising | advising staff]].
If you are a graduate student (outside of MPH or MSW), please contact your graduate program director for your advising questions.
Replace the Academic Support and Student Resources page with a link following these steps:
- First, remove the previous version of the Academic Support and Student Resources page
- Click on the **plus sign** for the Resources at Your Fingertips module
- Choose **External URL** for the drop down menu next to Add
- In the URL box, paste this link: **https://tuportal6.temple.edu/web/cph/academic-support-and-student-resources**
- In the Page Name box, enter **Academic Support and Student Resources**
- Check the box for **Load in a New Tab**
- Click **Add Item**
This item is now a link to a page in the CPH area on TUportal so that content can be updated moving forward without faculty having to make updates to their course.
Replace the Policies page with a link following these steps:
- First, remove the previous version of the Policies page
- Click on the **plus sign** for the Course Information module
- Choose **External URL** for the drop down menu next to Add
- In the URL box, paste this link: **https://tuportal6.temple.edu/web/cph/policies**
- In the Page Name box, enter **Policies**
- Check the box for **Load in a New Tab**
- Click **Add Item**
This item is now a link to a page in the CPH area on TUportal so that content can be updated moving forward without faculty having to make updates to their course.
Replace the text with the text below (please leave any additional technology requirements you have added to the Canvas page. We have consolidated the CPH general technology requirements to link out to one page on the CPH IT wiki):
Please review the [[https://cphapps.temple.edu/wiki/it/student/coursetechrequirements | Student Course Technology Requirements]].
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Written Steps for Importing the version of the template that only includes the updated areas:
Part 1: Importing the version of the template that only includes the updated areas
- After you have created your Banner shell in the first set of instructions, click on the course shell.
- Click on **Import from Commons** (on the right side of the page)
- In the Commons, search for "CPH Template Based on Existing"
- Click on **CPH Template Use to Build a Course Based on an Existing Course**
- On the right side of the page, click on **Import/Download**
- Locate the course you would like to import it into and check the box next to the course name
- Scroll down and click **Import**
- The import process will begin
- Go back to the Dashboard and go back into the course. You will the template begin to populate.
Now, you can copy content from a course that was following the course template from last semester.
Part 2: Copy Content from previous Canvas course that was following the CPH Template:
- Click on **Import Existing Content** (on the right side of the page in your course)
- From the menu, select **Copy from a Canvas Course** and choose the course you would like to copy from
- Choose **Select Specific Content**
- Click **Import**
- Now, select the content to bring into the course.// Select Modules, but expand it and uncheck the “Resources at Your Fingertips!” module since the updated version of this module was brought over when you imported the template.// Select pages, files, etc.
- Click **Import**
- The import process will begin to run
- Once the process has completed, click back in the Modules area
- Now, replace the older version of the Technology Requirements page with the updated Technology Requirements page that was brought over
- Locate the Course Information module
- Click on the **three dots** to the right of the Technology Requirements page
- Click **Remove**
- Now, click on the **plus sign** for the Course Information module
- Select **Page** from the menu and choose the new Technology Requirements page
- Click **Add Item**
- When you click on this page, you will see that the Student Laptop Requirements link has been added and the Educational Discounts for Computer Equipment and Software link has been updated as well. Add any additional technology requirements for your course on this page and then remove the text highlighted in yellow
Lastly, don’t forget to use the Syllabus template that was emailed to faculty. Upload the syllabus to the “Syllabus” area on the course navigation menu.
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