Alex D'AdamoInstructors have the ability to self-add users into their Canvas courses with a few different roles.
If you want to manually give someone access to help build, review, or support your Canvas course, this guide will help you learn how to add them using the People area. These steps are most useful when you need to add someone who is helping support or build the course, like Peer Catalysts, Engagement Fellows, tutors, librarians who need access to the course, but for FERPA reasons should not have access to the gradebook.
These instructions are also helpful if you need to share a course with another instructor for inspiration, support, or to copy content from.
Instructors assigned to the course in Colleague are automatically enrolled as a “Teacher” role. Any additional instructors who need the “Teacher” role in a course must be added through Colleague/ILP. QILT cannot add “Teacher” roles to your courses.
Students registered into the course through Self-Service are automatically enrolled as a “Student” role. Contact the Registrar with questions related to student enrollments. QILT cannot add students to your courses.
- In the course navigation menu on the left, select the People area.
- Select the blue “+People” button. NOTE: If this button is disabled, read below.
- Type in the user(s) email address(s) with the format: firstname.lastname@quinnipiac.edu. Multiple emails can be separated by commas or new lines.
- Select the role that the user(s) should receive in the course and the section they should be added to (if applicable). Learn more about roles in Canvas →
- Select the blue “Next” button.
- If Canvas locates the user, a green checkmark will appear with a ready message. Select the blue “Add Users” button to confirm.
If Canvas does not locate the user, an exclamation mark will appear with a warning message.
DO NOT CLICK THE BLUE “NEXT” BUTTON. SELECT THE “BACK” BUTTON AND CONFIRM YOU ENTERED THE CORRECT E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR THE USER.
If you continue to have issues adding the user, please submit an IT request.
If “+People” is disabled
- Open the Settings area of your Canvas course.
- In the “Course Details” tab, change the “Participation” from “Term” to “Course” and set an “End Date” to be in sometime in the future.
- Select the blue “Update Course Details” button in the bottom right.
- Follow steps 2-6 in the guide above.
- Go back to the Settings area of your Canvas course, and change the “Participation” back to “Term.”
- Select the blue “Update Course Details” button in the bottom right.
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