CPH Canvas Course 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 CPH Canvas Template Tour (video 8:14) for an overview of how the template works.

1. Log into canvas.temple.edu
2. Click on the Course Tools area found on the vertical global navigation menu (toward the bottom)
3. Click on Banner
4. Click on + (next to the name of the course)
5. 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)

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. Click on one of the sections below to view instructions for your use case.

Use the full version of the template, following the instructions in the video below.

Video (1:50): 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:

1. Click on Home in your course
2. Click on Choose Homepage on the right side of the page
3. If the "Welcome Students" page is listed as the "Pages Front Page," select Pages Front Page
4. If not, click on Change
5. Locate the "Welcome Students" page to make the front page and click on the three dots all the way to the right
6. Click Use as Front Page
7. Click on Home
8. Click on Choose Home Page
9. Click on Pages Front Page
10. Click Save

Fall 2024 Update: 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 these steps:

1. On the homepage, click on Edit
2. Click on Temple University Bookstore
3. Click on Link Options
4. Remove the old link in the Link box and paste https://temple.edu/bookstore in the Link box
5. Click Done
6. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save

Add content to your course.

Please email cphithelp@temple.edu for any questions.

Fall 2023: The areas that have been updated are noted below. Please click on each section below to follow the instructions to update the four areas: