Description
You will need to manually add teaching assistants, co-instructors, and other users to your Canvas course if they are not officially enrolled in the course as a student or are not listed as in instructor in Course Offerings.
Registered students are added to Canvas automatically, beginning two weeks before the start date of the course.
Environment
Canvas in your web browser or the Canvas Teacher app
Solution
Adding a user to a Canvas course
Note: To add a user to a Canvas course they must first exist in Canvas as a user.
Creating a user in Canvas
- New employees are added as users in Canvas daily, after their status has been confirmed by Human Resources.
- Students are added as users in Canvas two weeks before their first enrolled course begins.
- All other users must be manually created in Canvas; this includes Guests and students participating in the Sixty Plus Program.
- Submit a Canvas help ticket to the IT Service Desk to request that a user be created in Canvas.
- You will need to provide the preferred first name, preferred last name, and Ohio University email address for the individual(s).
- You will be notified after the user has been created in Canvas, at which point you can follow the instructions on the “How do I add users to a course?” help page to add the user.
Removing a user from a Canvas course
Removing a student from a Canvas course
Note: Canvas has been configured to prevent the loss of student data that occurs when students are removed from a course by someone other than a system administrator.
Outcome: You should now be able to update users in your Canvas course.
Get Help from Canvas
- Live chat with Canvas support (Faculty)
- Get 24-hours/7-days a week Canvas support
- Dial the Canvas Support Hotline number located under "Get Help" in the Canvas Global Navigation Menu
- Contact OIT at 740-593-1222 for questions related to logging in, manually created courses, or third-party tools (Panopto, VoiceThread, Inclusive Access, etc.)
Get Help from OIT
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