How do I add student profile pictures?

[ScottCagle]

Hi,

We sync our Canvas data from Veracross, but student images are not coming over. Is there a way to add this to the Veracross-Canvas sync or can I batch upload images to student profiles?

[Hildi_Pardo]

Hello @ScottCagle  -- I don't believe there is an easy way to do this via the usual sync.     

Here is a blog someone wrote:   https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/How-to-Bulk-Load-and-Update-Profile-Avata...

At our K12 school district, we allow users to upload their own pictures. 

If you like, as an Canvas Admin, you can manage uploaded pictures:  How do I manage profile pictures for users in an account?

We haven't had an issue, and haven't needed to use this feature. 

I hope this helps!

[ScottCagle]

Hildi,

I appreciate the information. This is one of the things that's actually relatively easy in Schoology. I know our faculty like having the official school image thumbnail of the students so I'll need to find a way to make this happen in our Canvas instance.

Thanks,
Scott

[Gabriel33]

You may be able to edit them using the API.

You should probably first upload the images to Canvas, then update their profile avatars using https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/users.html#method.users.update