Create Catalog Listings - Catalog Admins

Overview

Catalog acts as a storefront for the UM-Flint Professional Development Canvas (PD Canvas). It handles user registrations and payments for course listings and passes the enrollments over to Canvas.

Listing a Course on Catalog

The first step to listing something on Catalog is to make sure a course exists in PD Canvas. Even if you are posting a listing for an in-person event, a course MUST exist in Canvas in order to add it to Catalog.

  1. Go to Catalog and login.
  2. After logging in, click your name in the top right of the screen and select Admin.
  3. Click the +Course button in the top right.
  4. In the Add a Course box, enter the course code or name to search for the course you would like to list. When it appears, click on it and select Create Listing.
  5. On the New Listing page, enable the Open For Enrollment option.
  6. Enter all of the details of the listing:
    • Teaser: A short description of the course that appears on the main listings page when users are browsing courses.
    • Days to Complete: Number of days from point of registration that the user has to complete the course. NOTE: ODE highly recommends you do not use this feature as it creates multiple end dates in your Canvas course.
    • Credits: If the course is part of a program that utilizes credits, enter the number of credits the course is worth.
    • Enrollment Fee: Enter the cost of the course. Leave blank if it is free.
    • Full Description: Enter the full description of the course. This appears to users when they click on the course listing in Catalog.
    • Tags: Skip tags. We do not use them in our Catalog.
    • Catalog: If you have access to more than one sub-catalog, select the one to which the course should be added.
    • Section: If the course has more than one section in Canvas, select the section that users should be registering for.
    • Visibility: Set visibility to Show Listing.
    • List Order: In general you will leave this blank. If blank, the course is listed alphabetically. If it needs to be moved to a different position, enter a number for where it should appear in the list. Example, enter 1 if it should appear first in the list.
    • Listing Path: this is appended to the end of the URL for the course listing. In general, this should be left at the default value.
    • Student Cap: Set the maximum number of enrollments allowed (leave blank for unlimited). If you set a cap, you can enable a waitlist. If you enable a waitlist, you can set a cap for the maximum number of waitlists allowed.
  7. Click Create in the bottom right.

Certificates of Completion

Once a course listing has been created, you have the option to add a certificate of completion.
IMPORTANT: In order for a certificate to be issued to a student, the course modules in Canvas MUST have requirements enabled. See How do I add requirements to a module? for help.

To add a certificate:

  1. Click on the course on the Catalog Admin page.
  2. Click the Certificate tab at the top.
  3. Enable the Include Certificate option.
  4. Enter a name for the certificate.
  5. Select the one of the pre-made certificate templates you would like to use or use a custom certificate. Note: ODE does not provide custom templates.
  6. If the certificate has an expiration date, check the Include Expiration Date option and set either the expiration date or the number of days that the certificate is valid.
  7. Click Save.
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