Crosslisting in Canvas

Cross-listing allows you to move section enrollments from individual courses and combine them into one course. This feature is helpful for instructors who teach several sections of the same course and only want to manage course data in one location. Instructors can allow students to view users in other sections or limit them to only view users in the same section. Section names do not change when they are cross-listed; the section is just moved to another course.

Cross-listing should be done while courses are unpublished. Coursework is retained with the course, not with the section enrollments, so if a published course is cross-listed, all cross-listed enrollments will lose any associated assignment submissions and grades.

To cross-list a course, you must know the name of the course or the course ID into which you are cross-listing. However, using a course ID is a better way to confirm you are cross-listing a section into the correct course. You can find the course ID by opening the course and viewing the number at the end of the browser URL (e.g. account.instructure.com/courses/XXXXXX).

Sections can only be in one course at a time. Once a section is cross-listed, you can re-cross-list the section into another course if necessary.

Complete details can be found here: How do I cross-list a section in a course as an instructor?

How to Crosslist

To complete a crosslist you will need the section ID or SIS ID of the section you would like to crosslist the other section into (we will call this the "parent" section). Then you will navigate to the Settings area of the section you are bringing into the "parent" section.

In the Settings area, click on the "Sections" tab [1] then click on the section link [2].

On the next page that loads you will see a "crosslist this section" button. In the pop-up window, enter the course ID. The course name should then display and you are ready to complete the action by clicking on the Cross-List this Section button. ✅

Crosslisting Faculty User

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