The provision of non-courses is being deprecated and fully withdrawn in 12 months in most cases and as a result we have some stipulations in place.
We advise you use this time to explore other options such as Microsoft Teams/SharePoint or coordinate with your Assistant Academic Registrar to arrange the creation of a non-credit bearing module where appropriate.
Please check the information below before requesting a non-course.
Alternatives to non-courses
Non-courses are created to facilitate the delivery of teaching. If you have a programme related requirement for a non-course, please speak with Assistant Academic Registrar to explore a SIS generated course.
If you are requesting a Canvas non-course for the purposes of information sharing, please consider other options such as email, requesting a presence on the LJMU website, or requesting a Microsoft Teams site.
If you need space for testing purposes, you can use a Canvas master module; each taught module has a master which does not contain student enrolments. You can search for one of your module codes in My Canvas Admin, the master appears without a year or semester information e.g., 1234GEOG.
Enrolment
- Student enrolments will be via self-enrolment, and self-unenrolment only.
- The original requestor of the non-course must manage any additional staff enrolments via My Canvas Admin.
- Batch enrolment by TLA will not be supported.
Assessment
- No summative or credit-bearing assessment can take place within a non-course.
LTI/Tool support
- Course plugins (LTIs) will not be available or supported in non-courses. These include Turnitin/Panopto/Vevox/Key information/Reading Lists/Module Evaluation.
Archival and deletion
- By default, non-courses will be provisioned for one year only.
- Once an end date has passed, the non-course will be placed into archive.
- There will be no backups for non-courses, please maintain your own copy of backups/content record.
- No student interactions will be retained.
- If a student removes themselves from the courses, any interactions will be lost and unrecoverable.
- A year after archival, the course will be deleted.
Support
- Support for non-courses is available via Canvas support 24/7.
- Internal help requests raised for non-courses will be closed and the user referred to Canvas 24/7