1. Go to the Rowan Online Portal
2. Click Access Your Courses in Canvas  
3. Log in with your Rowan NetID to access Canvas 
4. Upon logging in, you will have access to the Canvas Dashboard which houses all of your courses

Glassboro

Courses become available to Glassboro students five days before the course begins. Once a course is available, you will see the course on your Canvas Dashboard.  

RowanSOM/GSBS

RowanSOM/GSBS students will have access to their courses 14 days before the course begins. Once a course is available, you will see the course on your Canvas Dashboard.

CMSRU 

CMSRU students will have access to their courses the Friday before the course starts. Once a course is available, you will see the course on your Canvas Dashboard.

Glassboro 

To create a course shell in Canvas:

1. Go to the Rowan Online Portal
2. Click Log In in the top navigation menu
3. Click My Courses from the yellow menu bar
4. Scroll down and select the applicable term from the drop-down menu
5. Click on the Create Canvas shell button next to your course(s)

For each course where you select “Create Shell,” you will be prompted to choose between copying content from an existing course or creating a new, blank shell. 

RowanSOM/GSBS

Provisional courses have been created for you in Canvas. Please take the Self-Paced Canvas Training Course for Rowan Medical Schools before you begin adding materials to your provisional courses.

CMSRU

Your Education Coordinator will develop the standard Canvas course; however, it is extremely important for you to understand how to navigate through the course and course materials. To learn more about Canvas, visit the Self-Paced Canvas Training Course for CMSRU.

Cross-listing is a self-elective system available in the Rowan Online portal that allows faculty to combine course sections into a single Canvas shell. For instructions, see our article on cross-listing sections in Canvas.  

Please note the following functions and limitations for the cross-listing tool:

• Courses that are already published in Canvas cannot be cross-listed.
• You can only cross-list courses that you are the official instructor of record for in Banner and Section Tally.
• You can cross-list multiple courses, but they all need to be cross-listed at the same time.
• Courses that are already cross-listed to one course cannot be cross-listed to another course.
• You can only cross-list one set of courses at a time. You must repeat this process for each set of courses you would like to cross-list.
• Cross-list requests will be processed by Rowan Online within 5 business days of submission.
• All cross-lists are final! Once your request has been approved, cross-listing courses cannot be undone. Please review your request before submitting it.

Glassboro

When users elect to create their course shell, they are also enrolled in a self-paced training course in Canvas.

This training course houses all the information you need to build your course with the standard Rowan template. The self-paced training course guides you through Canvas and its tools. Access to this course is also available for instructors who are not teaching in the current semester.

RowanSOM/GSBS

Take the Self-Paced Canvas Training Course for Rowan Medical Schools to get started with Canvas.

CMSRU

Take the Self-Paced Canvas Training Course for CMSRU to get started with Canvas.

The functionality to import external content is not enabled on the Rowan instance of Canvas. 

To migrate content into Canvas, you must download and save the materials you want to include in your Canvas course to a local drive or a Rowan University Google Drive account. You can then build out your course shell with this content. 

Canvas Commons is a system that allows instructors to share content across their courses.

Canvas Commons is currently only available to Glassboro faculty. 

For more information and understanding of how Commons can be used, please carefully review the Canvas Commons Guide and Policy.

If you are the instructor on record and wish to add another instructor or teaching assistant to your course, you may do so through the instructional assistant application in Self-Service Banner. 

Glassboro

Zoom is now available to Glassboro instructors for use with courses in Canvas. Please visit go.rowan.edu/zoom to get started with Zoom. 

RowanSOM/GSBS

Webex is the approved video conferencing platform for RowanSOM/GSBS courses in Canvas. Please visit go.rowan.edu/webex to get started with Webex

CMSRU

Glassboro

Canvas courses are automatically published five days prior to the start date for Glassboro courses. Once a course is published it will be visible and accessible to students from the Canvas Dashboard.

An unpublished course provides faculty the ability to build their course(s) with privacy. A course cannot be published earlier than five days before the start date.  

RowanSOM/GSBS

RowanSOM/GSBS students will have access to their courses 14 days before the course starts. Courses cannot be published earlier than 14 days before the start of the course. 

CMSRU

Glassboro

If you are developing an online-only/hybrid course or have been approved by your department to create an eLearning Enhanced course, please reach out to your instructional designer for help.

Support to build a traditional-remote course can be found in the self-paced Canvas training course.

RowanSOM/GSBS

RowanSOM/GSBS will be using traditional-remote courses in Canvas. To get started with Canvas, take the self-paced training course for RowanSOM/GSBS. 

CMSRU

Your Education Coordinator will develop the standard Canvas course; however, it is extremely important for you to understand how to navigate through the course and course materials. To learn more about Canvas, take the Self-Paced Canvas Training Course for CMSRU.