Add people

Canvas generates a course invitation when someone is manually added to the course. The user must accept the course invitation to participate in the course. Until the user has accepted the course invitation, the user status will display as pending. Users will not receive a course invitation until the course start date. Additionally, courses must be published for students to receive course invitations.

If you want to add someone to your course, click the 'People' button in the Course Navigation Menu. You can choose if you want to add users by email address, Login ID (VUnetID) or SIS ID.

Roles

There are several roles in Canvas: Student, Teacher, Coordinator, Teaching Assistant, Teaching Assistant No Grading, Course Designer and Observer.

Teachers and Coordinators have the same permissions. We created the role coordinator so students will know who is responsible for the course. A user with a coordinator role will automatically be enrolled if it has been entered in SAP. It is only an administrative role.

Teaching Assistant (TA) and Teaching Assistant No Grading (TA No Grading) are almost the same role except that Teaching Assistant No Grading cannot view and edit grades.

They have all permissions on course level except:

Moderating grades
Adding/editing LTI connections.

Course designers have all permissions on course level except:

Moderating grades
Editing grades
Adding/editing LTI connections
Adding/removing other teachers, course designers or TAs to the course
Managing (create/edit/delete) course sections
Managing learning outcomes
Managing alerts
Viewing all grades
Viewing analytics pages

Teaching assistants have all permissions on course level except:

Adding/editing LTI connections
Adding/removing other teachers, course designers or TAs to the course
Managing (create/edit/delete) course sections
Managing learning outcomes
Managing alerts

Teaching Assistants No Grading have all permissions on course level except:

Editing grades
View grades
Adding/editing LTI connections
Adding/removing other teachers, course designers or TAs to the course
Managing (create/edit/delete) course sections
Managing learning outcomes
Managing alerts

Students only have the following permissions on course level:

Create student collaborations
Create web collaborations
Post to discussions
See the list of users
Send messages to individual course members
View announcements
View discussions

To learn about the permissions of Observers, read this page.

Learn more about People and Roles in the following guides: