As program leadership or administrators, you often have different needs within Canvas to best support your program’s instructors, faculty, and students. While you have the Help Desk and LTS as resources, with elevated Admin roles in Canvas within your program prefix sub-accounts, you’re able to do more.
Once you have access (steps for requesting this are below), here is how you get in to the Admin space in Canvas:
Step 1. Go to https://boisestatecanvas.instructure.com/ and log in.
Step 2. You will automatically be brought to your Dashboard. You want to go to the lefthand navigation many and click on [1] Admin. A popup menu will then appear showing you [2] the sub-accounts you have access to. These should look like: PROGRAM PREFIX (example RESPCARE) or PROGRAM PREFIX-ONLINE (example RESPCARE-ONLINE).
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Step 3. Click on the specific sub-account you want to access. You will be navigated to that sub-account, where you can see, search for, and edit all past and present courses. Below is a screenshot with the search bar you will see.
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Keep reading to learn more about what you can do with access to your program prefix sub-account(s).
What benefits does my Admin-level access provide me?
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Viewing course enrollments |
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Edit, add, or copy course content |
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Editing course settings |
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Who do I contact if there need to be changes made to the faculty and staff that have Admin-level access to sub-accounts?
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Please make me a SubAccount Assistant to everything you can and Live Course Admin where necessary because of live courses
Thank you.
What benefits does my Admin-level access provide me?
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Benefit
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Possible Use Cases
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Viewing course enrollments
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Checking to see if an adjunct or TA’s account is active enough for their enrollments to be complete
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Edit, add, or copy course content
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Preparing a course for a new adjunct
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Editing course settings
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Updating a course name
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Which role do I have, and how does that impact what I can do?
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