Canvas: add people to a Canvas site

Course sites are accessible to a certain group of people, in most cases. For a course site, one professor is given a “teacher” role and the students on the official class roster are given “student” roles. A couple of notes:

  • If a student adds a class with the registrar, they should get access to the linked Canvas site sometime in the mid-morning of the next day
  • Likewise, when a student drops a class, they will lose site access mid-morning of the following day.
  • Sometimes you may need to add a student, a co-teacher, or a TA to your Canvas course site:

Add a person to a Canvas site

  1. You will need the person’s Rutgers NetID
  2. From your Canvas site, click People from the left-hand menu
  3. Click on the +People button from the top right of the page
  4. From Add user by, select “Login ID”
  5. Enter the NetID in the text box provided (to add multiple people, separate NetIDs with a comma or enter each on a new line)
  6. Choose the appropriate role (Learn more about different roles and their permissions here)
  7. If course site has multiple sections, you can limit the new user to a particular sections by clicking on the Section dropdown menu
  8. Click Next
  9. Confirm details, then click Add users

Please note that if the Canvas site ‘End date’ has passed, you will need to escalate your request to add people. Please contact idt@camden.rutgers.edu.

User not found

If you receive the message ‘We were unable to find matches below.’ when you attempt to add a user, please contact IDT (idt@camden.rutgers.edu) to confirm the correct NetID and that the person has a Canvas account.