Cross-Listing Your Courses

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If you are teaching more than 1 section of the same course, you can merge (cross-list) them into one course shell. This helps cut down the times you post an announcement to your students, the frequency of some actions that can be performed in one "Parent" course.

Before You Begin Check List

There are some things you will need to know and be sure of before you cross list any courses.

- - NEVER cross-list courses that have already been opened/published to students. Cross-listing courses after they have begun will result in lost student submissions
    - If you do this by accident, please reach out to the Academic Technology team ASAP
  - Courses must be the same, just different sections. Example: Do not cross list ENGL B1 with ENGL B2
  - You must have an instructor role to perform these steps
  - Choose a Parent course that is not likely to be canceled. Do not select a course with low enrollment to be the "Parent" course. If it gets canceled, you will lose the cross-listed course setup along with the merged courses
  - When cross-listing your courses, you will use the canvas assigned course number found in the URL
  - It is not recommended to de-cross-list. If you need to do this, please reach out to the Academic Technology Team.
  - If you do not feel comfortable doing this process, please ask someone on the Academic Technology team to help you out. (We would be happy to help.)

Cross-Listing Steps

Please follow the following steps to cross list your courses.

Remember:

You will need to note down a specific Canvas assigned number of your Parent course.
You will do the cross-listing in your child courses, not the parent course.
Also, your numbers will not be the same as mine below.

Choose your "Parent" course.
- Reminder: Do not select a course with low enrollment to be the "Parent" course. If it gets canceled, you will lose the cross-listed course setup along with the merged courses
Go to your parent course home page
Find the Canvas assigned course number in the URL of the course. In this case: (55074)
Note down the Parent course number retrieved from the course URL (you'll need this when cross-listing)
In your Child course: Now open up one of your course sections that will be cross listed
Click on the course "Settings" tab
Click on the "Navigation" tab at the top of the page
Click on the blue lettering of the course section
On the right hand side of the screen, select "Cross-list this section"
In the pop up box, add the Canvas assigned parent course number to the second box. Be sure there are no spaces after your course number. Hit the tab key after entering the Canvas assigned course number for the parent course. You will see the course title populate below the number field. This will help you assure you have chosen the correct Parent course. In this case the 55074 number from the course URL.
Click the "Cross-List This Section" button
Repeat steps 5-11 for each section you'd like to cross-list.

Reminders & Help

- NEVER cross-list courses that have already been opened/published to students. Cross-listing courses after they have begun will result in lost student submissions
- If your Parent course gets canceled, please reach out to the Academic Technology team for retrieval of course materials ASAP
- If one of your cross-listed courses gets reassigned, please reach out to the Academic Technology team ASAP for support de-cross-listing that course. The new faculty could unintentionally change course content once they are added to the reassigned course.

Additional Cross-listing Resources

Setting-Up FERPA Friendly Discussions in Cross-Listed Courses
Hide Navigation Tabs from Students

Helpful Reminders

If you need help on a day when no office hours are offered, please email canvasquestions@bakersfieldcollege.edu and someone will contact you as soon as possible.

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