Cannot find add People button

[NaomiBarnett]

As an New Admin (about a month into learning) I was asked by a teacher to add a student to a course.

The following are the steps I took and still cannot find a "add people" button

1. Admin, People, name of instructor, acted as user, select course, and only see a Group button
2. Admin, user, student name, and don't know what to do from this point
3. Admin, courses, course name does not display on search

Am I taking the wrong steps?

Any help is appreciated

[NaomiBarnett · Accepted solution]

I figured it out!

The specific course I was looking for was in "default" mode.

I'm assuming because it was categorized differently is why I could not find it in a regular search.

What I came across was, by looking up the teacher, then searching all of their courses, is when I came across the one I needed. 

And to the right of the course was the option to add people.

😂 

[James · Accepted solution]

@NaomiBarnett 

To add a student to a course, go to the course People page. The +People button is at the top right of the roster.

This may be disabled for instructors depending on settings/permissions. You don't need (or want) to act as the teacher to do it. At our school, we use our SIS to create enrollments and don't allow faculty to manage student enrollments on their own, so faculty don't see that button.

As a new admin, be sure to become familiar with the Canvas Admin Guide. In particular, this lesson may be useful, How do I create and add users to an account?

Then, from the Canvas Instructor Guide, the lesson may help. How do I add users to a course?

There are a couple of notes at the bottom of the blue section at the top of that last link.

• Enrollments may be added by your institution's student information system (SIS). If an enrollment includes an SIS ID, you cannot add an enrollment to the course.
• Adding users through the Add People button is a course permission. If you cannot add a user to your course, your institution has restricted this feature.

If you're using SIS to add students, you may not want to add students manually at the request of the instructor.

[NaomiBarnett · Accepted solution]

I figured it out!

The specific course I was looking for was in "default" mode.

I'm assuming because it was categorized differently is why I could not find it in a regular search.

What I came across was, by looking up the teacher, then searching all of their courses, is when I came across the one I needed. 

And to the right of the course was the option to add people.

😂 

[James · Accepted solution]

@NaomiBarnett 

To add a student to a course, go to the course People page. The +People button is at the top right of the roster.

This may be disabled for instructors depending on settings/permissions. You don't need (or want) to act as the teacher to do it. At our school, we use our SIS to create enrollments and don't allow faculty to manage student enrollments on their own, so faculty don't see that button.

As a new admin, be sure to become familiar with the Canvas Admin Guide. In particular, this lesson may be useful, How do I create and add users to an account?

Then, from the Canvas Instructor Guide, the lesson may help. How do I add users to a course?

There are a couple of notes at the bottom of the blue section at the top of that last link.

• Enrollments may be added by your institution's student information system (SIS). If an enrollment includes an SIS ID, you cannot add an enrollment to the course.
• Adding users through the Add People button is a course permission. If you cannot add a user to your course, your institution has restricted this feature.

If you're using SIS to add students, you may not want to add students manually at the request of the instructor.

[NaomiBarnett]

Thank you for the tips and resources!

[Jeff_F · Accepted solution]

@NaomiBarnett the +People button is also known to 'disappear' when the course participation end date is prior to the current date and time. To add someone to a course with such a situation the participation end date needs to be removed or extended past the current date.

[jfountain]

Jeff - this has been an ongoing problem for us that I haven't been able to resolve with support.  We have new faculty who need to view prior course content so they can get up to speed about what our students are being taught in specific areas.  Our course editors are not able to add them to past courses through the GUI because the +People button is grayed out.  I don't want to extend the date past today because that also affects students' view of the course.  I also can't give our course editors permission to run SIS integration files manually to get them enrolled for security reasons (since the SIS permission is all or none and they could do some real damage with SIS files).  This puts the work on me as admin to enroll them with a SIS file.  Any ideas for how we could do this differently?