Canvas Cross-Listing/Meta-Linking Courses

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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. 

How to do it?

Get to the course you want to cross-list

Note: this means the course that you want to link to the main course

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Navigate to course settings

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Navigate to sections

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Select the section to cross list

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Notice:

1) You can view a cross-listed course's originating course

2) When course sections are cross-listed, the original section remains visible but is set to read-only in the original course

Cross-Listing

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Uploaded Image (Thumbnail)After clicking in cross-list a new menu appears. Here is where you will look for the "parent course" which is to say the course that has all the information you want the section to have. You can either look up a course by name (7.a.) or by ID (7.b.)

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How to undo it?

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Navigate to course settings

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Navigate to sections

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Select the section to Remove the Cross list from

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De-cross-list it

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Sections can only be in one course at a time. If you need to cross-list the section into a different course, click the Re-Cross-List this Section button.

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Article ID: 162691
Created
Wed 5/27/26 4:08 PM
Modified
Tue 6/30/26 11:35 AM
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