Generally, there are to types of courses in Canvas.

FS-courses

«Real» courses with study points. Meaning, all courses in a programme plan should be in a FS-course in Canvas. These courses are connected with FS – which is connected with the programme plan. Students automatically get access through the semester registration and teachers get access with person roles. FS courses are created some months before the semester starts. The exact time may vary.

Manual courses

Courses that the teacher can create with Dashboard (see tutorial later in the course). Manual courses are not connected to FS and should generally not have students as participants. The purpose of manual courses is to test and experiment with Canvas functionality. It is also convenient to not have to wait for the FS course. You can create a manual course before the course is created in FS, and then copy your content from the manual course to the FS course.