Canvas End-of-Semester Checklist

Finish Strong! Use the following helpful checklist to close out your Canvas courses for the semester. None of the following are required actions, and not all will be applicable to a given instructor or course.

1. Input Final Grades into myFramingham (Not Canvas!) Whether you used the Canvas gradebook or not, whatever "final/total" grade is listed for students in Canvas is NOT official, nor does it automatically transfer to myFramingham. Instructors must manually enter final grades in myFramingham according to these instructions: Enter final grades in myFramingham
2. Manage Incompletes: As Per the Registrar's Incomplete Policy, students must have submitted a Request for Incomplete form by no later than the last day of the semester. By default, all students will lose participation access to your Canvas course approximately one month after the end of final exams. If your student will need to submit work via Canvas, and you expect them to take more than a month to complete it, please complete this form to request extended access to your Canvas course for the students in question.
3. Export Canvas Gradebook: it is a good practice to export your entire Canvas gradebook as a CSV and save it. Historically, student information, including grades, have not been included in long-term storage when courses are archived, and you should expect that will continue to be the case for future archiving processes. How do I export grades in the Gradebook?
4. Clean up your Dashboard: Remove course shells you are not actively using, including last semester's courses. Past courses may remain on your Dashboard longer than they did in the past. Use the "Favoriting" feature to customize which courses you see there.
5. Up Your Canvas Game for Next Semester: Find out What's New in Canvas. For a general refresher, check out the tutorial Canvas course Growing with Canvas, Register for an upcoming ETO workshop or find our recordings of previous sessions.
6. Share Your Course to Canvas Commons: Now that you've just finished teaching a course, this is the perfect time to preserve and share your pedagogical masterpiece in Canvas Commons, so that others may use it in the future. You can choose to limit sharing to a select group such as your department, the entire FSU community, or even beyond - to Canvas users at other institutions. You can also keep your shared material private (share it with no one) - use Commons as a backup system that costs you nothing!
7. Leaving FSU? If you think there's a chance you won't be back next semester, here are a few tips that will make it easier to take your work with you to your next institution, and make it easier for the colleagues you'll be leaving behind.  

Questions? Email eto@framingham.edu.