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Starting with a well-designed course template can greatly enhance the visual appeal and structure of your course on Canvas. Chico State offers customized templates to help faculty create engaging and organized online course environments. This guide provides instructions on how to import these course templates from Canvas Commons into your course.
Prerequisites
- Access to a Canvas course as an instructor
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Log in to Canvas.
- From the Global Navigation Sidebar, select Commons.
- Select the Chico State template that best meets your needs. See below.
- From the template Preview page, select Import / Download.
- Select the check box next to the course(s) where you want to import the template.
You can import either of the following course templates to a live course or a sandbox prep course.
- Select Import into Course.
Basic Course Template
Chico State provides a very basic template for spring 2025 courses that includes a customizable Home page and links to Chico State support resources.
Comprehensive Template
This template is a more fully developed and comprehensive version of the Chico State template. In it, you'll find a "Get Started" module for students along with example assignments, discussions, quizzes, and more. This template would work well for an online asynchronous or synchronous course as well as in-person or hybrid courses that heavily leverage Canvas tools.
Troubleshooting
- Preview vs. Actual Format: If the template's format in the preview looks different from what you expected, proceed with importing it to your course to see the actual layout and functionality.
- [When you import to a course that already has a Chico State template from Canvas Commons applied...update your courses with the latest version]
- Page Format: If you want additional formatting options for your Canvas pages within your course, check out our How do I import Chico State page templates from Canvas Commons?