Spring 2025 courses are now in Canvas! Log into Canvas to find all your SP25 course sites on your dashboard or by going to your Courses > All Courses page.
Want to edit which courses you’re seeing when you first log in? You can favorite your Canvas courses to determine which ones are visible on your dashboard!
Are you new to Canvas? Find resources on Moving from Sakai to Canvas and consider registering for a personal consultation to get one-on-one help with your specific courses. We are here to help you!
Get Added to Your Roster in ConnectCarolina
To get access to your Canvas course, your departmental course scheduler must list you as one of the following in ConnectCarolina for each of your rosters:
- Primary Instructor
- Secondary Instructor
- Proxy
- Dean’s Designate
- Teaching Assistant
New Instructors: You must first complete FERPA training before the registrar can list you as the instructor in ConnectCarolina. Once you are added as the instructor on your course roster, you should see your Class Roster in ConnectCarolina in the Faculty Portal. See these Faculty help guides if you have questions about ConnectCarolina. If you were recently added as the instructor of record in ConnectCarolina, you may need to wait up to an hour before your course becomes available to you in Canvas.
Access Your Course Site in Canvas
Course sites are automatically created in Canvas! Log into Canvas and access your course sites on your Dashboard or on the Courses > All Courses page.
Cross-listed Rosters
Rosters that are cross-listed in ConnectCarolina will automatically be cross-listed in Canvas. They will appear as separate rosters in Canvas as they do in ConnectCarolina. You can view your rosters in your Canvas course Settings > Sections.
If you are teaching a course with multiple rosters that are not officially cross-listed in ConnectCarolina, you can combine those rosters onto one Canvas site. First determine which site you want to use as the main course site for the term and then go to your other section site(s) to cross-list that section with the main section site . Note that the other section site(s) will disappear once the cross-listing has been made.
For example, you may be teaching DEPT101.001, 002, and 003. You decide to use the 001 section site as your main course site and want to cross-list sections 002 and 003 with section 001. You would go to the 002 and 003 section sites to cross-list them with DEPT101.001.
Note: If you cross-list the wrong sections in Canvas and are unable to de-cross-list them, please submit a help request through help.unc.edu . We will remove the cross-listing for you.
Reusing Content from Canvas and Sakai Courses
If you have already taught your course in Canvas, you can easily copy course materials between Canvas sites .
If you would like to reuse course content from Sakai, your 2022, 2023, and Spring 2024 Registrar courses have been copied into Canvas sites. You can locate these “SAKAI_Archive” sites when you log into Canvas and go to the Courses > All Courses page.
You are welcome to reuse any of this migrated content and copy it into your upcoming courses. You can also manually export content out of any Sakai site you own as Sakai is still available in restricted access until May 15, 2026. See Getting Content into Canvas to learn about your options. We strongly advise thoroughly reviewing your migrated/exported content before copying it into your official Spring 2025 course sites . While Canvas and Sakai offer similar features, their underlying data structures are vastly different, which means there likely won’t be a clean and complete data transfer between the systems. Please review common issues we have found and then decide what content to clean up and reuse.