Adding a Student

How Do I Add a Student to my Canvas Course?

Ideally, we want students to be added to your course via Colleague/Prodigy. This should happen automatically, and students show up a few days before the class begins. However, you can manually enroll students into your course, and you may need to do this for manually-created courses or in other special situations.

To do this:

• Before you begin, make sure that you have the Login IDs for the student(s) you want to add. This is everything in their email address before the “@” – i.e. “ab1234565433”. (Hint: You can pull these lists from an existing Canvas course if you export the Gradebook.)
• Go to the People link in your course.
• Press the “+ People” button in the upper right hand corner.
• Click on the radial button for “Login ID.” Then type or paste the login ID(s) for the students you want to enroll in the box as shown. You can separate individual IDs, either by putting them on different lines, or separating with commas. Then hit Next, and follow the rest of the prompts to complete the student enrollment process.