How do I view admin settings in Commons?
As a Canvas account admin, you can access admin settings in Commons to manage public sharing and importing options for your account, view and manage groups and consortiums, manage resources shared by users at your institution, and view resource statistics.
Notes:
- Users with the default Canvas account admin user role automatically have account admin access in Commons.
- Your institution can create custom Canvas account admin roles with the "Admins - add/remove" permission. These admin users also have account admin access in Commons.
- Users with non-admin roles (instructors, designers, etc.) do not have access to Admin Settings. However, you can grant limited Admin Settings access to group leaders or content curators.
Open Admin Settings
To access Commons Account Settings, click the Admin drop-down menu [1]. Then, select a setting option[2].
View Account Settings
In the Account Settings tab, you can allow approved content settings, manage sharing settings, allow featured content, and configure default search filters.
You can also enable or disable standards and outcomes. By default, Standards & Outcomes settings are enabled.
You can edit your account settings at any time.
View Consortiums
In the Consortiums page, you can create and manage consortiums with which you share resources.
View Managed Resources
In the Managed Resources page, you can search, view, and remove resources shared by your institution that are not private to the author/sharer. You can also edit resource metadata (details, content licensing, share option); however, you cannot edit or update resource content.
View Statistics
In the Stats page, you can view resource statistics for content shared by users at your institution. You can search for and filter resources. You can also view resource name, author, email address, approved content status, number of times favorited, number of times downloaded, and a link to the Canvas source file.
