About KI's Canvas Catalog

The Canvas Catalog is a way of making courses that already exist in Canvas available for registration via a public page. The courses themselves are in Canvas but the catalog provides an interface to them. This means that the course itself is published as any course in Canvas with pages, assignments, quiz et cetera. You use the module requirements et cetera to generate certificate of completion. The certificate of completion is a default version with only the course name and participant name included.

The course administrator or teacher can still add students to the course if required, creating sections for groups of student for administrative purposes.

Enrollment and emails for enrollments from Canvas Catalog are in English. The default certificate is also in English.

Which courses qualify for inclusion in KI's Canvas Catalog?

The Canvas Catalog is not available for all KI courses. It is offered to courses that meet the following requirements and only once you have discussed publishing options with UoL:

The course is offered to external users who need to be able to create an external account in KI's Canvas instance, such as toolkits for both KI staff and external participants not working at KI
The participants of the course need to be able to generate a certificate of completion, eg courses offered to KI staff for professional development. Please note that courses available via Ladok have other means of issuing certificates of completion.

How are certificates generated?

The certificate of completion is generated by the Canvas feature of module requirements and module prerequisites. The certificate can be accessed by students from the student dashboard in the Canvas Catalog.

Which courses are currently publicly available from the KI's Canvas Catalog?

Canvas Catalog at KI can be accessed via the start page.

If you want to see how the system works then feel free to enroll for one of KI's toolkits. If you have a KI account you will be able to choose that account when you enroll in the course. Users who do not have a KI Canvas account will be able to create an account when they enroll.

Are all courses publicly available?

Courses are added as so called listings. These listings can be added to sub-catalogues which enable browsing via categories. For example, you can browse the category Toolkits to see which courses are included in the toolkit category.

If you do not want your course to be publicly listed it can be added as a listing available as link only. This means that if you want to send potential participants a link to allow them to enroll you will send the link only. The course will not be listed in the main catalogue from the start page or via the categories available.

If you want to use the Catalog to generate certificates but not for enrollment purposes you will need to ask us to create a link only listing (in other words you will add participants manually and not ask for enrollment via the Catalog). Students will need the link to be added to a Get your certificate here page. You will give students instructions on accessing the Canvas Catalog Student Dashboard in order to find the course certificate.

Accessing the student dashboard

Once participants have enrolled and logged into Canvas they can access their course via the Dashboard. In the Student Dashboard for Canvas Catalog students will see all the courses that that they have in Canvas and will see which are complete. Courses that are complete can may offer certificates.

Screenshot of Canvas Catalog dashboard

More information for students on how to obtain a certificate: See your instructions for certificate
Read about the Canvas Catalog