Cross Listing Sections

Combining Multiple Sections into One Canvas Course, or Cross-Listing

 

This guide sheet will show how to combine multiple sections of a course into a single Canvas page. Faculty would want to do this if they had multiple sections of the same course and want to manage only one Canvas course, so all grading and communication is centralized into one section.

 

  1. Choose the main course that all other courses will be joined under. It does not matter which. The other sections will no longer be visible to you or to students.
  2. Go to the section that will be joined to the other course.
  3. Click Settings at the bottom of the course navigation menu.
  4. Click the Sections tab.
  5. Click on the section for the course. There should be only one.
  6. On the right, click the Cross-List this Section button.
  7. Search for the course by name and section or by the five-digit CRN.
  8. Click the red Cross-List This Section button.

 

  1. Choose the main course that all other courses will be joined under. It does not matter which. The other sections will no longer be visible to you or to students.

  1. Go to the section that will be joined to the other course.

  1. Click Settings at the bottom of the course navigation menu.

  1. Click the Sections tab.

  1. Click on the section for the course. There should be only one.

  1. On the right, click the Cross-List this Section button.

  1. Search for the course by name and section or by the five-digit CRN.

  1. Click the red Cross-List This Section button.

  1. To confirm the cross list was successful, go to course that all sections are to be connected to, click Settings, and click the Sections tab. There should now be two sections listed.

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