Clean Catalog Canvas LMS Integration

As an Instructure partner, Clean Catalog is able to fully integrate with Canvas LMS to ensure a seamless experience between our syllabus management software and Canvas LMS. As with everything, we work closely with our clients to make sure the integration functionality works just how they need it to, but here are a few of the common integration features that we often implement.

Syllabus Editing Within Canvas for Instructors

Often, academic administrators want to take advantage of many of the features of our syllabus management system — like approval workflows, PDF generation, and our syllabus hierarchy model — but they'd rather not have all their faculty learn a new software system.

With this in mind, Clean Catalog can embed templated syllabi forms within Canvas, so that faculty can edit their syllabus information without leaving Canvas or logging into another system. Syllabi administrators can still log into Clean Catalog's software to take advantage of our features, but most faculty never have to leave Canvas to manage their syllabus.

Sample of an integrated syllabus form as a tab withing Canvas.

Syllabus Viewing Within Canvas for Students

Similarly, Clean Catalog can embed finished syllabi so that students can see each course's syllabus without leaving Canvas. Students will still see syllabi in our custom templated designs, and can still download PDF versions of syllabi if you use that feature — but they don't have to learn to navigate or use a new system.

Sample of a syllabus view from within Canvas

Information Flow from Canvas to Syllabi

One of our most powerful Canvas integration features is the ability to push information from Canvas into syllabi. If faculty are already entering information elsewhere in Canvas — as assignments or modules, for example — tha information can be pushed to the appropriate place in the course's syllabus, keeping faculty from having to re-enter the same information elsewhere and ensuring that the syllabus and Canvas are always consistent.