Instructors: Creating a Collection

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Collections 
• Create a New Collection

Collections are a powerful organizational tool in Canopy.

This is where you can organize multiple courses into collections or pathways for learners. You can also invite other instructors to add their content to these collections or pathways as appropriate.

Collections 

Find the 'Collections' page in your left navigation bar. Any collection you have joined can be found here. 

3 Types of Collections 

• Enroll - Learner-facing collections used to organize pathways or related courses
• Exchange - Instructor-facing collections to share/copy sections, modules, and courses between instructors or across different courses. 
• Public - Public-facing collections to share multimedia content on a public site. Courses cannot be completed or copied. No learner data will be collected. 
  • Do not share proprietary content to a public collection. 

Create a New Collection

You can create a new collection by clicking '+ Collections' or by choosing 'Share' from within a course's setting. 

When creating a new collection you will complete the following steps: 

Choose the type of collection based on the purpose of the courses or shared content. 

Add the details: Add a title and a description for your collection.

• Optional: Upload an image. The image appears on the collection card on the Collections page and in the Course Catalog (if applicable). 

Determine the access: Set the permissions for your collection. 

• Participant Access 
  • Participants are those who can join the courses within the collection. Participant access only needs to be determined for Enroll and Exchange collections.  
    • Open - any learner in the organization can discover and join the collection. The collection will be listed in the Course Catalog (if applicable). 
    • Invite only - invited members will have access to the collection through their collections tab. 

• Contributor Access 
  • Contributors are people who can add content to the collection. 
    • Open - any instructor in the organization can discover and join the collection. The collection will be listed in the Course Catalog (if applicable). 
      • Note: Exchange collections are only discoverable by instructors. 
        
    • Invite only - invited members will have access to the collection through their collections tab.

Invite Members to your collection (Optional) 

• Add members to your collection using their email addresses or through a csv upload. 
• Determine invited members permission levels. Invited members can be a participant, contributor, or admin. 

After saving your collection, all invited members will receive an email.

Any contributors can now add courses, modules, and/or sections to the collection.
Learners will be able to view and join the collection.