How to Import a LibreTexts into Canvas

LibreTexts allows you to adopt, curate, or create a text that can be modified within LibreTexts and printed from LibreTexts. It also allows you to export a text and import it into a course management system (CMS), such as Canvas, where any changes made to the resource as it exists in LibreTexts will dynamically be made to the text as imported into your CMS.  

Note: If you plan to customize the content, it is recommended you create an account and store the text you intend to use in your campus bookshelf. If you do this, you can opt to be informed of revisions done to the original and then decide whether to accept or decline those changes. In addition, if you plan to import the resource into Canvas and initially use the content without customization, creating your own copy will allow you to make changes in the future without needing to re-import the resource into Canvas.

Step 1: Downloading LibreTexts Content for Import

Once you find the content in LibreTexts you want, you select “Import into LMS” from the Downloads menu for the resource. Be sure to give your download a name so that you can later find it on your computer.  The default file name is: LibreText.imscc.

 

Step 2:  Import into Canvas

After the export is downloaded, you then enter your Canvas course to upload it. From the course homepage select the “Import Existing Content” option from the menu on the right-hand side. 

Then, from the "Import Content Type" menu, indicate that you will be importing a “Common Cartridge 1.X package”. Browse your computer to find your download and select the saved file. Then indicate "all content" and "import."

The LibreTexts will be found in your modules as pages. You can then integrate it with whatever other content you want within your course in your preferred order. 

The following brief video will walk you through the process of downloading a resource from LibreTexts and importing it into Canvas.

 

In Module 2 you will learn how to customize resources found in LibreTexts.