How do I create a new criteria in Course Readiness?

Course Readiness allows you to define and create your own custom criteria to measure course readiness based on your institution's specific standards. The process involves building a new criteria by selecting various requirements. These requirements check for basic course settings, the presence of essential content, and the inclusion of key student activities and assessments. These custom criteria can then be named and saved to be used for evaluating courses.

How do I create a new criteria in Course Readiness?

1. Open View All Criteria

In the Course Readiness dashboard, click the Criteria dropdown button. Then click the View all Criteria link.
Open View All Criteria

2. Open Add Criteria

To add a criteria, click the Add Criteria button.
Open Add Criteria

3. Add Criteria Name

On the Add Criteria page, enter the Criteria name and select if the course is published, if the course start and end dates are set, or if the published due dates fall within the course start and end dates.
Add Criteria Name

4. Add Content Criteria

Select the Content criteria options:

  • Announcements

  • Files

  • Modules

  • Pages

  • Syllabus

  • Home page

Add Content Criteria

5. Add Navigation Criteria

Select the Navigation criteria options:

  • Visible navigation items: All course navigation items intended for student viewing are not hidden from the course navigation.

  • Hidden navigation items: All course navigation items intended to be hidden from students are correctly hidden.

  • In This Order: Optionally check that required visible navigation items are displayed in a specified relative order.

Add Navigation Criteria

6. Add Activities Criteria

Select the Activities criteria options:

  • Assignments

  • Classic Quizzes

  • Discussions

  • New Quizzes

  • Outcomes

  • Rubrics

  • Canvas Gradebook is in use

Add Activities Criteria

7. Save Criteria

Then click the Save button.
Save Criteria

8. View Criteria Table

The newly created criteria is listed in the Criteria table.
View Criteria Table