Exploring and importing Canvas templates: A step-by-step guide

Discover how to access and import CTE-created Canvas course templates from Canvas Commons into your UVACanvas course, and follow step-by-step instructions to locate the imported content.

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Navigate to UVACanvas

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From your dashboard, select Commons

Commons is a place to share Canvas resources.

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Select the "Search by title, name, institution or tag" search bar

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Enter "UVA CTE Templates" into the search bar.

All available UVA CTE templated courses will be displayed

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Click on a course you would like to browse

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Click "Home Page" to get a feel of the course and see the main page.

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Once you are done viewing the Home Page. Click on "Pages" to take you back to the main screen.

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Click "Week 1 (Date)" to get a feel of the layout of the page for each week.

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Click "Import/Download" if you decide this template will work for your course.

You can also click "Back to Search" if you would like to continue to browse templated courses.

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Choose the course that you would like to import the template to.

You may add a template to an existing course as it will be added and not override any current content.

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Scroll down and click "Import into Course"

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Navigate to the course that you just imported the template from Commons into.

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Click "Pages"

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Click "View All Pages"

This will give you a list of all pages in your course (including the ones you just downloaded).

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Click "Home Page"

Double check that this the page that you would like to make your new homepage.

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Click "Settings"

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Click "Use as Front Page"

This will change your homepage to the one from the template.

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Click "Home"

You should now see your new homepage. Your course template is now ready to be editted.