Integrate WebAssign With Your Canvas Course

Note If your institution uses the old WebAssign-Canvas™ integration, see Set Up LMS Integration (Old).

Your Canvas administrator must have set up the Cengage tool in Canvas.

With this integration:

You and your students access your WebAssign courses from Canvas.

Best Practice To help your students, use clear and consistent naming for your courses and sections in both Canvas and WebAssign. This is especially important if you integrate more than one WebAssign section from the same Canvas course.

How do I know if I'm using this integration?

Your Cengage tool will be in a different location depending on which integration you are using.

These instructions are for an older version of the integration which uses a Cengage navigation item in your course navigation. If you have a Cengage navigation item that works, you are using this integration.

Google Classroom Versions

How you add WebAssign content to your Google Classroom depends on if your school uses the free or paid version of Google Classroom.

To see which version your school uses, open the assignment editor and look for the Add-ons panel.

If your assignment has Add-ons, your school uses the paid version.
If your assignment does not have Add-ons, your school uses the free version.

General Procedure

Create your course in Canvas.
Choose one of the following:
- Create a New Canvas-Integrated WebAssign Course
- Copy a WebAssign Course to a New Canvas Course
- Integrate an Existing WebAssign Course With Canvas
  Note Use this method if you are teaching a multi-section course. WebAssign courses created in Canvas are single-section only.
In your WebAssign course, assign the activities you want to use.
Link to WebAssign Activities and Resources

Multisection Courses Using WebAssign Course Templates and Sections

Sign in to Cengage and create your WebAssign course template and sections.
1. Create your course template.
2. In your course template, assign the activities you want to use.
3. From your course template, create your course sections and set each section's information, including section name, meeting time, and instructors or TAs.
Create your first Canvas course section and link it to one of your WebAssign course sections.
1. Integrate an Existing WebAssign Course With Canvas
2. Add Links in Canvas to WebAssign Activities and Resources
Create additional Canvas sections that link to each of your other WebAssign sections.

Multisection Courses (Not Using Course Templates)

Create your first WebAssign course section and assign the activities you want to use.
Create your first Canvas course section and link it to your first WebAssign section.
1. Integrate an Existing WebAssign Course With Canvas
2. Add Links in Canvas to WebAssign Activities and Resources
Copy Your WebAssign-Integrated Course in Canvas to create additional Canvas sections that link to new copies of your first WebAssign section.