Good afternoon, Chairs,
Happy first of October! As we continue our migration to Canvas, I’d like to share information related to J-Term and Spring 2026 courses.
In the past, I’ve asked many of you individually to provide details about the courses that you’d like migrated to Canvas. With the help of our IT and Colleague teams, I’m excited to announce an improved process.
Now, once the "Learning Provider" field in Colleague is set to Canvas for a course, I will automatically receive information about that course, along with any faculty updates or status changes, from Colleague.
If you would like your courses to use Canvas, in partnership with your Colleague administrator, please work to identify (and set the field for) which of your J-Term and Spring 2026 courses should be in Canvas. Administrators have already received information from the Registrar about this process. Courses that have already moved to Canvas in either Summer or Fall 2025 still need to have the Learning Provider field set if they are running in J-Term or Spring. Our expectation is that once courses move to Canvas, they will not move back to Blackboard.
Once QILT processes this information, we will email faculty with the steps to get started building their courses. This will include guidance on how to build a sandbox, where to access training, and how to schedule a meeting with one of our learning designers for one-on-one support.
If you’re not sure who your Colleague administrator is, please contact the Registrar or leadership within your school.
Action Steps
- Identify Courses: Work with your Colleague administrator to set the Learning Provider field for J-Term and Spring 2026 courses. (Reminder: courses already in Canvas for Summer or Fall 2025 also need this field set if they are running in J-Term or Spring.)
- Inform Faculty: Once courses are identified, let faculty know to watch for an email from QILT. Clarify expectations — e.g., does the course have a coordinator, should they copy someone else’s course, or are they responsible for building their own? QILT can help think through these situations if needed.
- Next Steps Email: After QILT processes the information, faculty will receive an e-mail from us with instructions on building a sandbox, accessing training, and scheduling one-on-one support.
If you would like Canvas applied as the “Learning Provider” to many sections of a course (or all the courses in your department), Janice Wachtarz is able to do that for you, if you/your Colleague administrator provides the criteria to select the courses (e.g., all COM101 sections, etc.).
Jean Fitzgerald and I have attended several faculty meetings to review the process and answer questions, and we are happy to continue doing so. Please let us know how we can help. Thank you for your continued partnership as we move forward with our migration.
Best,
Joel