Action for Faculty
As part of the Canvas Transition efforts, the most recent set of credit courses will be migrated automatically once the migration is complete.
In the event that you’d like to bring over more than just your most recent set of credit courses, a Canvas Course Opt-In Tool has been created for this purpose. This tool allows you to review what will be migrated and make changes if needed. It shows which courses are included, which are not, and allows additional courses to be selected if desired.
Please choose your courses for opt-in by Friday, June 5. If no action is taken, only the automatically selected courses will be migrated. A secondary round will be available later on to facilitate summer term requests.
If you need additional instructions on how to use this tool, or guidance on if it’s right for your use case, please contact ATC (atc@lanecc.edu).
Some courses will appear but cannot be selected in the tool. Contact ATC (atc@lanecc.edu) if one of these needs to be migrated.
Canvas Transition Milestones
Last updated: 05/4/26
Check back to this page often to see where we are in the process of reaching each milestone that impacts the college, faculty and students.
Training Opportunities
In-Person: Spring Conference 2026
Date: May 1, 2026 | Location(s): Details on the Spring Conference 2026 Website
Sessions will be open to all faculty and staff. They are designed to introduce Canvas and help participants build comfort with the college’s new LMS, whether they are new to Canvas or already have some experience with it. Topics may include basic navigation, editing content, adding course elements, and understanding how Canvas will be used and deployed at Lane.
Faculty One-Pager: Getting Started in Canvas
Recordings
Logging Into Canvas
Online, Self-Paced Resources (Asynchronous)
Available after the spring conference, instructors will have access to substantial online training resources through Canvas’s Training Services Portal — including self-paced learning pathways, written guides, videos, and live webinars. The same portal will be available to students once they gain access to Canvas. More information about additional virtual training opportunities will be shared as details are confirmed.
Growing With Canvas | Beginners
Estimated Time to Complete: 5 modules at 1.5-2 hr/module
Intended for:
- who have only used Moodle
- those with little - no experience with Canvas
Learn to navigate Canvas, build content, and organize modules.
Canvas Training Portal | Intermediate to Advanced
Estimated Time to Complete: (15-70 min/course)
Intended for:
- who have seen and interacted with Canvas as a Teacher
Comprehensive Canvas training from basic setup to advanced course methods.
How to access Online Training Options
Personalized One-to-one Support: Available 24/7
Available beginning: July 1, 2026
Users will have access to Tier 1 Canvas support for one-to-one help with common Canvas questions and basic troubleshooting. Support will be available 24/7 through chat and phone options in the Canvas Help menu. These support links and phone access will appear once the full Canvas subscription begins.
Online Synchronous: Faculty Fall In-Service Week
Date: TBA | Meeting Link
This training carries over from spring training during Spring Conference 2026.
Additional Resources
- Instructor Getting Started Guide – A practical starting point for instructors who are new to Canvas. It brings together introductory guidance and links to additional support resources.
- Canvas Overview Video for Instructors – A short overview video that may be useful if you want a quick visual introduction before formal training begins.
- Canvas Basics Guides: Canvas Features – A good reference if you want to understand what a specific Canvas feature does. Many of these guides also include videos.
Canvas Transition FAQ
Canvas will become Lane’s official LMS for classes beginning in Fall 2026.
Summer 2026 courses and student enrollments will remain in Moodle. Instructors are expected to receive limited access to Canvas by May 1, 2026 for training, review, and preparation.
Yes. Instructors are expected to have access to both systems during the Summer 2026 transition period.
That is the goal. Instructors are expected to receive limited access to Canvas by May 1, 2026 so they can begin training, reviewing migrated content, and preparing for the transition.
While we cannot stop you, the intent behind the contracting of K16 was to avoid the immense amount of work that may be required in a manual migration process.
Unfortunately, directly importing content from Moodle into Canvas has an inconsistent success rate at best. Several activity types and question types do not cleanly transfer over to Canvas. Large swaths of more basic content may be carried over without issue, but the amount of work proofreading an import to ensure complete accuracy may end up doubling or tripling your workload for Fall term. Most critically, embedded content (links, files, media) is likely to have issues with an import, and Canvas's built-in reporting tools will not catch every last detail.
Any work that is done manually transferring your course materials is ultimately done at your own risk. The ATC heavily recommends waiting for K16 to transfer your content over. If you have a version of a course that is different than the ones you have set for migration, and want to ensure K16 uses the right version, contact the ATC.
In Moodle, Banner was connected, but instructors could still manually override enrollments inside the course. In Canvas, that override layer is intentionally removed for credit courses—enrollments come only from Banner, so manual student enrollments and self-enrollment are only available for development courses. Teachers can enroll colleagues into all courses as teacher and/or non-editing teachers.
Canvas treats Banner as the single source of truth to keep grading, reporting, and financial aid clean. If a student isn’t showing yet, it’s usually a sync delay; most resolve quickly (thanks to reduced lag between SIS->LMS), but ATC can verify and add a temporary enrollment if required.
Credit-based course names in Canvas come from Banner and follow a strict standardized naming convention.The name in Canvas needs to match what’s in Banner so students see consistent information across registration, transcripts, and course access.
Additionally, Canvas manages course naming at a system level, which means this isn’t a setting that can be turned on for some courses and off for others.
If you’re working in a development course:
- Any user (including faculty) can click the three-dot menu that appears on a course card within their Dashboard and choose “Nickname” to set a custom name. This only changes how the course displays on their Dashboard and does not alter the actual course name in Canvas. Similar to course card colors, it’s a personal display preference and only affects that individual user.
- Contact the ATC and request the course name be changed
That timeline is still being finalized. The current planning assumption is that Fall 2026 sections will be available no later than about four weeks before the start of term, with the goal of making them available earlier if possible.
Lane is planning to migrate course content from Moodle to Canvas using K16 Solutions to help reduce the amount of manual rebuilding instructors need to do after the transition.
Not necessarily. Some content types, tools, and course elements may require review or adjustment after migration. More information will be shared as testing and quality review continue.
The college has contracted with K16 Solutions to migrate course content from Moodle into Canvas. K16 utilizes a “Scaffold Migration” approach along with an extensive team-based iterative review process to ensure that all course materials are imported correctly. The process includes test migrations, faculty review, technical adjustments, and final validation before broader sitewide migration moves forward.
The review process includes 12 instructors who were jointly appointed by the LCCEA (Union) and the College. Instructors involved in the quality review process were selected from courses that reflect a range of course types and complexity.
Canvas training will begin during Spring Conference sessions on May 1, 2026, with additional training opportunities expected through online resources, virtual sessions, and fall term professional development activities.
Yes. Instructors can now access and explore Canvas on our Canvas site. Instructors may use their own sandbox Dev Shells to become familiar with Canvas. We strongly recommend waiting for the official migration of content rather than importing content yourself, as this automated process will save you significant time and effort.
Many tools and integrations are expected to transition to Canvas, but availability and timing may vary. Additional setup and testing will continue during the Summer 2026 transition period.
Official Transition: Lane courses will officially be on Canvas in Fall 2026.
Request Canvas Development Shells
Reminder: To retain the highest fidelity and reduce cleanup, please rely on our migration of Moodle content through K16. Dev shells are best used for completely new content and courses and to learn how to use Canvas as an instructor.
What Can I Do Now?
- Instructors: Prepare for the transition by accessing your Canvas Sandbox Dev Shell at canvas.lanecc.edu and completing asynchronous training via Growing with Canvas or the Canvas Training Services Portal. Familiarizing yourself with Canvas navigation and practicing with sandbox content now will ensure you can hit the ground running once your Moodle courses are migrated. We strongly recommend waiting for the official migration of content rather than importing content yourself, as this automated process will save you significant time and effort.
- Students: No action is needed right now. Courses and student enrollments will remain in Moodle through Summer 2026, and Canvas will become the official LMS beginning in Fall 2026.
- Staff: If you use Moodle for non-instructional or special-use purposes, contact the Academic Technology Center at atc@lanecc.edu. We can help you review your current use case and plan next steps.
- Deans and Directors: Encourage instructors to make a plan now for the Canvas transition. That may include setting aside time to learn the platform, identifying areas where they need to build proficiency, and preparing to review and update course content after migration.