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Adding People to a Course

Adding People to your Canvas Course

  • As an Admin for your Canvas course, you can add users in roles such as student, instructor, TA, and designer.
  • Enrollments through banner are updated and added to the course every four hours, you should not have to manually add students who have enrolled in your course.

How to Add People to your Canvas Course

  • From the Home screen, go to the "People" tab from the left-hand navigation menu
  • Select "+People" from the top-right corner of the screen
  • In the pop-up, decide whether you want to add people by invite or add directly to the course
    • To invite users, enter their Temple email, AccessNet ID, or TUID in the text box and select their role and section. Hit "Next" to send them an invitation to join the course.
    • Select "Search Cherry & White" to enroll people directly
      • Use the dropdown to specify the course role they are being enrolled in
      • Search for them by last name, TUID, or AccessNet ID. Select their name when it populates below the search box.
      • Once you have added all enrollments, select "Enroll Now" located just above the enrollment list. You can select "Notify Users" if you would like to send them an email with a link to the course.

Canvas Guides: More on using the People feature on Canvas from the official Canvas Guides

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