Cengage Integration in Canvas
Enable Cengage integration in Canvas
- Go to Settings [1] from the course navigation.
- Click Navigation tab [2].
- Drag and drop Cengage into the top list.
- Click Save.
Cengage tool as an instructor-only tool, will not be visible to all students in the course navigation bar.
Create a course
- Click Authorize button to allow Cengage to access your course if this is your first time to connect Cengage tool in Canvas.
- Login using your faculty account. Or create a new account for Cengage.
- Choose a Cengage category you want to use in your course.
- Search course content by title, author or keywords.
- When you located the content, click Link to Course button to begin the course creation process.
If your search comes up with title not found, you can click the button in the top left corner "BACK TO CATEGORY" to search under another category.
- Create a course name and add start date and end date. Select your time zone and click Continue.
- Select the content [1] you will assign to your students. If you prefer to add Cengage assignment grades into Canvas Gradebook, check the boxes under the column named Add to Gradebook [2]. Click Continue.
- Setup attempts number for the assignments you assigned. Click Save.
- You will redirect to your Canvas course homepage. All Cengage assignment links are placed in an unpublished module under Modules.
- Relocate Cengage assignment links as you need and publish them and the module they are in.
- You can add more content at any time by clicking Cengage in the course navigation bar.
Edit Cengage assignments
- Navigate to the Assignments in Canvas.
- Click the Cengage assignment name you wish to edit.
- You will be directed to the edit assignment page.
- You can change attempt number by clicking the Activity Settings on the top right-hand corner.
- You can edit each question by clicking Edit button at the bottom of the question you wish to edit.
Copy Cengage integrated course to next term
After imported Cengage integrated course into a Canvas course shell, we need to activate Cengage assignment links.
- Click on one of the Cengage assignment links in your Canvas course. You will be directed to the Cengage course page.
- Select copy an existing course.
- Select the Cengage course you want to copy from.
This will ensure all assignment settings, assignment links, and gradebook columns from original course will be carried over into your new Canvas course.
- Once you finish all settings, all Cengage links are activated in your Canvas course shell.
If you copy an existing (active) Canvas course that has been integrated with Cengage to create a new section, please refer to the instruction of Copying an Existing Cengage Integrated Canvas Course Content to Create a New Section.
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