Add Other People to Your Course
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 Links to an external site..
Learn more about People and Roles in the following guides:
- How do I use the People page as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I add users to a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I view user details for an enrollment in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I view a user's profile in a course as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I edit user roles in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I edit sections for an enrollment in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I remove an enrollment from a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I view a summary of all my student interactions in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I view my course interactions with an individual student? Links to an external site.
- How do I view the course access report for an individual student? Links to an external site.
- How do I view registered services for all users in a course? Links to an external site.