By creating a "Master Shell Course," you can begin working on your course well in advance of the next school year. With this course you can prepare everything as you want it to appear, and then copy everything over into your live course.

Getting started with your courses in Canvas:

To get your course shell, you have two options:

Option A: Working later in a live section

This is typically how we have used Canvas in the past. Starting in August, all of your courses were made live, and while you could copy content over from previous years, staff usually decided to start their course from scratch.

Option B: Working now with master shells

Or you can choose option B to work now with some master shells. If you have much to build or move for your courses, you probably do not want to wait too long. To avoid unnecessary stress by putting off everything till the last minute. Consider this option instead. Using this option, you will be creating some course shells to work with right now, get all your content ready, and copy the content to live course shells at the start of the semester.

To start the module, click the Next button below.