How to Get Canvas Support
Support for Canvas at the university level is provided by Penn Libraries' Canvas support services. They can be reached at canvas@pobox.upenn.edu.
All management and support for Canvas at PDM is provided by Academic Affairs. They can be reached at pdmacademics@dental.upenn.edu.
Creating a Non-SRS Course
A site can be created in Canvas for generally any purpose that you feel would be useful. Enrollment of teachers, students and observers for this course will need to be completed manually. To request a non-SRS course you will need to send a message to canvas@pobox.upenn.edu.
It is possible to use Canvas for non-course purposes, but support staff will need some additional information about your intended use case first. Be prepared to answer the following questions:
- How do you intend to use the site? (Sharing documents, assessment, research, etc.)
- What is the approximate number of participants in the site?
- Provide the following information for all participants: full names, Penn ID Numbers, PennKey usernames, and email addresses (does not have to be a Penn address, just a current valid email address). We require all this information to create user accounts and cannot look up information on behalf of non-course site users due to limited staff time.
- What is the approximate lifetime of the site?
- When does the site need to be available for users?
- Do you want content copied from the PDM New Student Orientation Site
(zDM-DENT-001-C2015) into this new site? - Will those managing the site require training, or have they already used Canvas before?
Creating SRS Courses
The placeholder for a Canvas site with course name and course number is created in the Canvas system after the course screens are created in SRS by PDM Academic Affairs staff. Canvas sites are managed and created by Academic Affairs each academic year.
If necessary, a Canvas course can be requested by faculty (or by TAs/staff on behalf of faculty) through Penn Libraries' Canvas Course Request Form.
Course Enrollment
PDM Canvas courses can be requested before enrollment is ready. Once the enrollment information is submitted to SRS, that will connect to the course as detailed below.
Students are enrolled in Canvas sites through an automated process that pulls registration data from SRS. This enrollment process covers all students within in course year:
D1 – 500 Level Courses
D2 – 600 Level Courses
D3 – 700 Level Courses
D4 – 800 Level Courses
For further Canvas support, consult the documentation provided by Canvas Info @ Penn.
0 Comments