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# Manage Course Templates

## What it Does

### Course Templates - create

Allows user to set a template for an account.

Allows user to select a course as a course template in Course Settings.

Allows user to view names of course templates in the root account.

### Course Templates - delete

Allows user to remove a course as a course template in Course Settings.

Allows user to set an account to not use a template.

### Course Templates - edit

Allows user to change the template being used by an account.

Allows user to view names of course templates in the root account.

## Additional Considerations

### Account Settings

To access the Account Settings tab, Account-level settings - manage must also be enabled.

### Courses

To create a new course to use as a course template, Courses - add must also be enabled.

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This documentation is generated directly from the Canvas LMS source code, available [on Github](https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms).


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