Click the red + People button on the right side of the screen. If the button is grayed out, see Adding a Participant to a Canvas Course that Has Ended below (under Special Circumstances)
Add via Login or SIS ID. If you want to add a user via a login or SIS ID, you can choose to add a name to associate with the user [1]. You are also required to include an email address for the user [2]. If no user name is entered, Canvas will use the user’s email address as the user’s name.
From within your Canvas course, in the course navigation, click People. On the right side of the screen, above the +Group Set button, click the gear icon and then click Add & Manage UW Groups. Enter or paste the UW Group you want to add.
Use the People tool in Canvas to add someone to your course who has a NetID. Log into Canvas at canvas.wisc.edu and navigate to the appropriate course. Select People from the course navigation panel on the left side of the page. Click the red + People button on the right side of the screen.
To add a UW Group to your Canvas course, follow these steps: Steps Actions. From within your Canvas course, in the course navigation, click People . On the right side of the screen, above the +Group Set button, click the gear icon and then click Add & Manage UW Groups. Enter or paste the UW Group you want to add.
When giving access to your course, it is important to select the appropriate level of access in order to protect students’ privacy rights. For course guests who do not have a clear educational purpose for having access to student data (names or grades), choose from the more restricted roles of guest teacher, ...
If you want to have additional instructors or TAs added to the course as official instructors of record, please contact your department’s Time Schedule Coordinator to have them officially added .
You can add multiple students at the same time, separated by commas. Choose the correct course section and make sure the role is set to Student. Optional. If you want to restrict activity so that students only interact with classmates in their section, select the Can interact with users in their section only checkbox.
Please note that shared UW NetIDs cannot access Canvas. To add or remove users from your UW group, use the UW Groups service, found at https://groups.uw.edu/. This is where you can create and manage UW Groups, edit the membership of the group or find institutionally maintained groups that you can use.
Add people via UW Groups. Google accounts can also be added to a Canvas course with a UW Group . If you have a group of instructors or cohort of students that are not officially registered for a course, but you would like them to be able to observe or participate, you can grant this access with a UW Group.
Enrolled students will be automatically added to their Canvas courses roughly three weeks prior to the start of the semester. Students who enroll in a course after the start of the semester will also be automatically added to your Canvas course within 48 hours.
If a course has ended, you must temporarily set the Course End date to a date in the future. If the term end date has passed, change Participation from Term to Course, and select a new end date in the future. After adding the participants, Remember to revert the end date back to it original setting.
Adding Students to a Course. Instructors should NOT add students to timetable (for-credit) courses manually. Students added to the course outside of the automatic update procedure will lack access to some course functions. Manual enrollment is exclusive to non-timetable courses.
Instructors are not able to manually add students to timetable courses. However, they can can add users to their timetable courses in instructor or staff roles, To protect student privacy, avoid making manual enrollments whenever possible.
Until the user accepts the course invitation, the user’s status will display as pending. In order to add a participant to a course in Canvas the participant must have an active Canvas account. You will be notified during the process if Canvas is unable to locate an account for the participant.
It could take up to 24 hours for users to receive their invitations. Canvas will not consider the user to be enrolled—and won’t recognize the user anywhere in Canvas (this includes Conversations)—until the invitation has been accepted. If necessary, you can resend course invitations.
If necessary , you can resend course invitations. If a user was added with the wrong role in the course, it is possible to edit a user’s role in a course. If a user was added to the wrong section in the course it is possible to edit a user’s section in a course.
1. Navigate to the People tab in your course. 2. Click on the +People button to bring up the following screen: 3. Enter the appropriate email address.
Enter the appropriate email address. Canvas will only accept the exact DU email address on record for each user. Instead of email addresses, you may also use the DU ID numbers of the people you wish to add by using the Login ID option. Using a DU ID number will ensure that you are adding the correct individual to the course.