<p>When you are enrolled in more than one Canvas course, you can customize the active courses you want to show in your Course list. Courses you want to show in the Courses drop-down menu are called favorite courses. You can favorite any published course that appears in the My Courses section on the course list page. Course favorites also display in the <a href="../../4212/l/710330?data-resolve-url=true&amp;data-manual-id=4212" data-object-class="article" data-object-uuid="EA93ACE0-ECDA-0134-6432-22000BC102FE" data-object-manual-uuid="2E9743B0-E3D9-012F-D7F0-12313804AAC3" data-resolve-url="true" target="_blank">Dashboard</a>.</p> <p>When no courses are favorited, the courses list automatically displays up to 20 courses alphabetically in the drop-down menu. However, once you have selected at least one course as a favorite, only your favorite courses will appear in the Courses list.</p> <p><strong>Note</strong>: Courses are always listed alphabetically; you cannot reorder your courses manually. </p>

<p>You can add a grading scheme to an assignment. You can use search for grading schemes created by your institution or you can <a href="../../4152/l/57090?data-resolve-url=true&amp;data-manual-id=4152" data-object-class="article" data-object-uuid="C3F1F5B9-A5C5-4BEC-8CE4-C24D5EDF7159" data-object-manual-uuid="2E64DA50-E3D9-012F-D7C3-12313804AAC3" data-resolve-url="true" target="_blank">create a new grading scheme.</a> </p> <p><strong>Notes: </strong></p> <ul><li>When an assignment is part of selected content in a course export, the grading scheme for the assignment will also be imported. </li> <li>Using an account-level grading scheme built by your institution links the scheme into your course—it does not import as a new scheme on the course level. </li> </ul>

<p><span style="color: rgb(38,38,38)">Manually assigning peer reviews allows you to choose which students will be assigned peer reviews. </span></p> <p><strong>Note</strong>: When manually assigning peer reviews, students can complete their assigned peer reviews without having to post their own discussion reply first. If you require students to post to the discussion before being able to complete a peer review, you must automatically assign peer reviews.</p>

<p>Canvas allows you to manually bulk create users, accounts, terms, courses, sections, and enrollments through the Admin interface.</p> <p>This document references the <a href="https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.sis_csv.html" target="_blank">SIS Import CSV Format API page,</a> where the majority of the CSV information is located. Each CSV file is symbiotic with another and tell Canvas how to manage all information for the account. <a href="https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-5917" target="_blank">View an SIS relationship diagram</a>. </p> <p>Each step in this lesson provides sample CSV files with descriptions of each required and optional field. You will also find a link to download each file if you want to take a deeper look at the formatting. <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/tr-learncanvas/files/sis-imports/SISImportPackage.zip" target="_blank">Download a zipped package of all sample files.</a> </p> <p>You should practice importing data in your <a href="../../4214/l/717430?data-resolve-url=true&amp;data-manual-id=4214" data-object-class="article" data-object-uuid="726492E0-FB1B-0134-7462-22000AB760A3" data-object-manual-uuid="2E9EF650-E3D9-012F-D7F2-12313804AAC3" data-resolve-url="true" target="_blank">Canvas test environment</a> before importing any content to your production environment.</p> <p><strong>CSV File Format</strong></p> <p>In order to bulk upload data into Canvas, you must create one or more CSV text files.  CSV files can be generated by many programs. Student Information Systems (SIS) often have a method for generating reports in CSV format that can be modified to fit the format Canvas requires.<em> If you do not know how to save a file in a CSV format, please check the documentation for the program you are using to create your CSV file (e.g., Excel).</em></p> <p>When using the Instructure format for importing files in the <a href="../../4214/l/527607?data-resolve-url=true&amp;data-manual-id=4214" data-object-class="article" data-object-uuid="ac051770-9371-491c-8e78-deda934ff669" data-object-manual-uuid="2E9EF650-E3D9-012F-D7F2-12313804AAC3" data-resolve-url="true" target="">SIS Import page</a>, you may import an individual CSV text file or you may compress multiple files into a single ZIP file to bulk import data. If you are manually uploading individual files, the files must be uploaded in the order shown in this lesson.</p> <p><strong>CSV Field Formatting</strong></p> <p>The first row of your CSV file (header) must include the complete field name for each file. The order of the <em>columns</em> does not matter but having the <em>rows</em> ordered properly is crucial for files like the accounts.csv. When any of this data is modified in the User Interface (UI), Canvas will set the new values as &quot;sticky.&quot; When a new basic upload is performed, the data existing in Canvas will remain &quot;sticky&quot; and any imported data that would attempt to update that data will be ignored. Learn more about <a href="https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-5914" target="_blank">sticky fields</a>. </p> <p>An import can override UI changes only if the proper options are selected when using the SIS Import tool.</p> <p><strong>API Documentation</strong></p> <p>CSV files only include a specific set of fields. Canvas contains additional values that are available through each individual API. After running the CSV files for your institution, standard practice for a majority of institutions is to upload all SIS CSV files and then use the Canvas API to update full account and course attributes. For more information, view the <a href="https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/index.html" target="_blank">Canvas API documentation</a> for Users, Accounts, Terms, Courses, Sections, Enrollments, and Groups. </p>