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Blackboard Terminology
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Canvas Terminology
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Description
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Institutional Template / Blank Shell
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Blueprint / Blank Shell
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Only used when discussing the top-level official MSU Denver Blueprint. This will change regularly and have a name like “MSU Denver Fall 2020 Blueprint” (with the term changing as appropriate).
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Course Template
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Lead Course
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A course developed specifically to be distributed to multiple instructors.
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Child Course
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Recipient Course
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A course that will receive content from a lead course.
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Course Shell
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Student-facing course
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A course that will have students enrolled in it, as opposed to a sandbox or a development shell. For example, a lead course might also be a student-facing course. Or, a lead course might be built in a sandbox and then copied into a student-facing course later.
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Merged / Cross-listed Course
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Multi Section
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In Canvas a cross-listed course will appear with a course title called “Multi Section”.
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N/A (was combined with a Course Shell in Blackboard)
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Course Section
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Enrollments are located for a Banner CRN.
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Development Shell
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Sandbox Course
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Faculty and Staff are provided five sandbox courses as workspaces for creating and editing content prior to moving content into student-facing courses.
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MSU Denver Course Coordinator
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MSU Denver Course Coordinator
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Staff or Faculty member within a department who is responsible for the course content for a particular course.
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Send Email / Send Email (External)
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Conversation
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Note that Canvas provides the ability to send conversations to students, however this tool is slightly different from Blackboard's. It will send a notification to the student, but they need to access Canvas’s Inbox (via the link in the notification sent to them based on their personal notification settings) on the navigation bar to see the message.
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Activated Course / Live Course Shell
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Receiving Course
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A course that will receive content from a lead course.
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Instructor/Faculty
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Teacher
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In Canvas a faculty member teaching a class is referred to as a “Teacher”.
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