{"id":143,"date":"2023-03-02T14:45:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T14:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:28:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:28:45","slug":"cross-listing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/faculty\/cross-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-listing Course Sections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The process of combining the enrollment from two or more courses in Canvas is referred to as cross-listing<\/strong>. Before cross-listing, you need to determine which course will serve as the primary course and which course(s) will be cross-listed (moved to primary course).<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> If you cross-list your canvas courses, you will also need to update the Montclair Syllabus for your cross-listed courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cross-listing Course Sections in Canvas<\/h2>\n

Consider a common scenario: you are teaching two sections of the same course, BIOL101_01 and BIOL101_04. You would like to combine the enrollments into one course to make course management simpler. You decide that BIOL101_01 will serve as the primary course.<\/p>\n

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  1. Navigate to the course you wish to cross-list (in our example, BIOL101_04)<\/li>\n
  2. Click on Settings<\/strong> in the course menu<\/li>\n
  3. Click on Sections<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Click the title of the course under Course Sections<\/strong> (BIOL101_04)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. On the right-hand side of the page, click the “Cross-List this Section”<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. Type the primary course\u2019s ID in the Search for Course<\/strong> field (BIOL101_01) and click on the course from the drop-down list. You can also use the course ID (the number that appears in the course URL after “\/courses\/”).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. Click Cross-List This Section<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Once you click to cross-list the section, students from BIOL101_04 will now be in the BIOL101_01 Canvas course. You will no longer see BIOL101_04 in the Course drop-down list. However, it is still possible to view which section a student belongs to.<\/p>\n

          Click on People<\/strong> in the navigation bar to see a listing of students. Here you will be able to determine which section the students are in.<\/p>\n

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          You are also able to grade each section separately.<\/p>\n

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          1. Click on Grades<\/strong> in the navigation bar<\/li>\n
          2. Click on Showing All Sections<\/strong> and select which section you would like to work on<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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            The process of combining the enrollment from two or more courses in Canvas is referred to as cross-listing. Before cross-listing, you need to determine which course will serve as the primary course and which course(s) will be cross-listed (moved to primary course). Note: If you cross-list your canvas courses, you will also need to update […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":470,"parent":22,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-143","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions\/731"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}