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.
- Go to Catalog and login.
- After logging in, click your name in the top right of the screen and select Admin.
- Click the +Course button in the top right.
- 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.
- On the New Listing page, enable the Open For Enrollment option.
- 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.
- 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:
- Click on the course on the Catalog Admin page.
- Click the Certificate tab at the top.
- Enable the Include Certificate option.
- Enter a name for the certificate.
- 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.
- 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.
- Click Save.