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
- You will need the person’s Rutgers NetID
- to find a person’s NetID, you can ask them or if you’re stuck, ask us (IDT: 856 225 6090 or idt@camden.rutgers.edu)
- From your Canvas site, click People from the left-hand menu
- Click on the +People button from the top right of the page
- From Add user by, select “Login ID”
- Enter the NetID in the text box provided (to add multiple people, separate NetIDs with a comma or enter each on a new line)
- Choose the appropriate role (Learn more about different roles and their permissions here)
- If course site has multiple sections, you can limit the new user to a particular sections by clicking on the Section dropdown menu
- Click Next
- 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.