Last revision: 2025-08-11

About program rooms in Canvas

This information is for program co-ordinators or people reponsible for program rooms in Canvas. The program room template is at the moment only available in Swedish.

If you need support in your work with Canvas, please use ther guides in this course or visit miun.se/canvasinfoeng for current information on support and workshops.

Program rooms can be used for information and communication with students . Teaching is carried out in course rooms for each course. Indformation can be directed to a certain group (for example a cohort). A cohort equals a Section in Canvas. Announcements can be directed to a certain section, by choosing that section when creating the announcement. You can also assign acess to a page or module to a certain section. In this way you can control which students how have acess to certain information.

The course menu is set to show some options. People should not be visible in Program rooms, due to GDPR. The following is visible from start. Change if you have specific needs.

Home
Announcements
Syllabus (information about the program, bur cannot be renamed since it is a set function in Canvas)
Modules

Adding cohorts of student

The programme room you are working in has been created manually. Each time a new programme starts, Ladok will create a group (cohort) with new students, which you will need to link to your programme space each year.

Go to your programme space and click on the menu option Administer course (Samläsning).
Click the button Add joint teaching (Lägg till samläsning).

Knapp med texten Lägg till samläsning

Bild som visar vald programkod som en klickbar länk.

Look for your current program code and choose program instance by cklicking it.

Bild som visar vald kurs och sektion som klickbar länk.

Now you'll see a list of sections (cohorts) for this program code. Choose the section you want to add by selecting it.

iFönster visar vald kurs och vald sektion, spara-knappen är blå och aktiv.

Choose Save (spara) if evertyhing is correct.

When you come back to the overview for Administer course you can remove the section of something went wrong.

Publishing a program room

You need to publish the program room manually when you have added information and content and made the settings you need.

Publishing in Canvas is done on three levels:

Course status
The course status should always be "Published", otherwise students will not see that they have been enrolled in the course and may become uncertain — and we don’t want that. This is set under Settings at the bottom of the course menu.

Module
Modules can be published as soon as you have decided which ones will be used and have edited their names. Modules and their content are published from the Modules overview.
Item/Resource
(e.g. pages, assignments, files) can be published whenever you want to make them available to students.

Published items are marked with a green checkmark. Unpublished items are marked with a grey, crossed-out circle.

Skärmbild från Canvas som visar publiceringsstatus i modulöversikten

About the contenet in the program room template

Everything that is added to a new program room is meant as an example and to give suggestions. Satrt by revising the modules and pages to familiarize yourself with the contents. Adapt, remove and add according to your needs. On the home page there are two icon options for two cohorts. Do you need more, or want dfferent icons? Create your own, download or email pukontakt@miun.se For the two home page options there are addiotional icons in Files. This means you can add them yourself. To do this, use the icon making tool when in editing mode. Choose Create icon for icon making tool.

There is a discussion forum in the template: Discussion forum for program students. Adapt or remove, according to tour needs.

Other tips

Through the calendar in Canvas, you can create events from the program room, such as inviting all cohorts to a guest lecture. You do this by going to the calendar, which you can access via the global menu. Make sure that the programme room’s calendar is selected among your calendars. When the relevant calendar is selected, you can use the + icon to create an Event, Assignment, add to My To-Do, or create an Appointment Group.

Skärmbild från kalendern i Canvas. Visar var man lägger till händelser i kalendern.

Choose what kind of event you want to create (1) and which calendar you want to add it to (2). Skärmbild som visar skapande av kalenderhändelse i Canvas

Fill out all fields and don't forget to save (3).