To Join or Not to Join: Creating and Enrolling Members in Canvas Courses
To Join or Not to Join: Creating and Enrolling Members in Canvas Courses
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10/22/2018
Most student courses have been created for you, and students have been auto-enrolled. However, there may exist times when you need to create your own course. For example, you may want to create your own course if you:
- Lead a school sponsored club or would like to participate in a cross-curricular, multi grade level, or cross school PBL or other project.
- Are a resource teacher in an elementary school
- Would like to use a course as a way to share ideas with fellow educators (PLN)
- Are an exceptional ed teacher, school counselor, librarian, etc. and need to create a course for the students with whom you work
- Use Canvas for anything other than a course for which you are the teacher of record in Synergy
Creating a Course
- Go to my.ccpsnet.net, and click the Canvas icon.
- On the right side of your dashboard, click
Start a New Course.
3. Give the course a name, and click Create course. Leave the course private for now, and don’t make it publicly visible. You can do these once your course is finished and is ready to use.
Once you have created your course, you have two options to add members. You can provide members with a link that they can click to enroll, or you can add them manually.
Manually Enrolling Students
Manually Enrolling Students
- Open the course from your Canvas Dashboard.
2. Click People in the Course Navigation Bar on the near left.
3. Click People in the Course Navigation Bar on the near left.
4. Select Add user(s) by Email Address.
5. Type in their email addresses. Separate multiple addresses by commas.
6. Choose the role that you would like for them to hold in your course (student, teacher, observer, etc.). Descriptions of the varying roles can be found here.
7. If you have created sections in your course, select the section to which you would like to add them.
8. Click Next.
The next time the member launches Canvas, they will be invited to join your course. If you have a large number of members to add, this can get cumbersome, and you may want to enroll members with a link.
Enrolling Students with a Link
Enrolling Students with a Link
If you need to add a large number of people, or you would like to give them the option of joining your course, you may want to allow them to self-enroll with a link. All those who click the link will be added in the student role. If you do not have the means to share a clickable link, a shortened bit.ly link might be helpful when typing in a web address. However, one can always share a Google Doc or an email with the link embedded. To enable and locate your course’s join link, watch the following video. Written directions are also included in the link below.
enroll with a link.mp4Click here for written instructions on how to enroll with a link.
Once added to the course, Canvas generates a course invitation that appears on the user’s dashboard. The user must accept the course invitation to participate. Until the course invitation is accepted, the user's status will display as pending.
Author Information
Beth Sepelyak has been with Chesterfield County Public Schools for 15 years. She has been an integrator for the past 11 years. She, her three children, parents, and grandparents all attended Grange Hall Elementary, are proud graduates of CCPS, and are staunch advocates of its excellence.
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