[ARCHIVED] Canvas Access & Waitlisted Students

[mjones14]

My institution would like waitlisted students to be able to access Canvas. Could you provide insight into what other schools are doing with students that are on a waitlist? Is there a special designation in Canvas for a waitlisted student?

[rebecca_william]

During the first two weeks of the term (informally called the "add/drop" period) we allow the teacher role to add/remove students. This allows them to add waitlisted students to the Canvas course so they can access the course fully. After the deadline to add/drop classes we:

• Remove the permission to add/remove students from the teacher role
• Run the enrollment provisioning report (Canvas) against the enrollment according to our enrollment management software (PeopleSoft). We delete all the students that are not officially enrolled in the class. The programmer's set this up to run using APEX, so I only need to upload the current provisioning report and confirm the deletes before I sent the command to Canvas. 

We have not created a role for waitlisted students, but that could be an option. It would certainly automate the process of adding/removing the students who are waitlisted, but our faculty indicated they wanted to be able to add students who might not be officially waitlisted yet.