# Manage Course Templates

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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).