Canvas: Combine Course Sections

📌 Combining Course Sections 

• Process for combining course sections.
• NOTE: Merging should be done while the courses are still unpublished and no course work has been submitted by students. 

👥 Audience

• Staff

🖥️ Applies To

• Web Based

🛠️ Instructions

To combine sections of a course, you first select the section that will function as your base or primary.
Usually, section 01 is selected for this purpose. 

Detailed Steps:

1. Navigate to the "Home" page of the Canvas course you want to be the "Primary" course, which will be the Canvas course site your other Canvas course section sites will be merged into.
2. Identify and copy the Course ID for your primary Canvas course in the Address Bar of your browser. 
   
   
    
3. Once you have the primary course's Course ID copied, navigate to the secondary course you want to merge, go to the "Settings" section, and click on the "Sections" tab.
4. In the "Sections" tab, click on the title of the secondary course section you would like to merge with the primary course.
   
   
    
5. On the next screen, you will see the Current Enrollments in the secondary course's section. Click the "Cross-List this Section" button.
   
   
    
6. In the pop-up box that opens, paste / type in the Course ID of your primary Canvas course site into the "Enter the Course's ID" text box.
7. Confirm that the primary course is the correctly identified and selected course.
8. If everything is correct, click the "Cross-List this Section" button.
9. The secondary course's section is now merged merged with the primary course.
   Looking in the "Settings" section of the primary course, and navigating to the "Sections" tab again, you will see your primary course's section, as well as the secondary course's section.
    

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