added person (all roles) but they can't create new course

[PaigePrescott]

I'm a total newbie for a small, education non-profit.  I'm trying to add people so that they can start designing courses.  I've added a new person for 'all roles' but they can't create a course.  What am I missing?

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi there, @PaigePrescott ...

I'm not sure what you mean by "all roles".  I'm not familiar with a way that someone could be enrolled in a course with "all roles" unless if your school's Canvas administrator made a custom role called "all roles".  The "all roles" option you see isn't something that comes "out of the box" with Canvas.  Can you please provide some more details about this?  Thanks!

[PaigePrescott]

I'm including a screenshot.  Basically I'm trying to add a few people that can start designing courses and need help doing it effectively.  

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

@PaigePrescott ...

It looks like you are on the administrative side of your Canvas environment.  This area is where all users (admins, teachers, students, etc.) are created as "users".  In this part of Canvas, you aren't defining what role they have in a course.  That is handled at the course level.  For example, if John Doe is listed as a user in Canvas (on the screen that you included in your reply), he can be enrolled in one course as an instructor and in another course as a student.  Many schools have a process in place where users/enrollments come directly from their SIS (Student Information System), so there's hardly any manual account creation, and users can automatically be enrolled in courses with their proper role.  I'm not sure if you have that set up at your school...but that might be something to investigate with your IT department.

Once you have users in your Canvas environment, then if you are manually enrolling them, you do that through the "People" page of a course.

How do I add users to a course?

There is a "Designer" role that comes "out of the box" with Canvas, and you might be able to use that one for your purposes.  Here's an admin Guide that explains more about that role:

What user roles and permissions are available in C... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

I hope this is enough info to help get you started...but please let us know if you have more questions about this...thanks!

[PaigePrescott]

Thank you for clarifying this!  We will mostly be hand entering people since we are not a large organization.  Your explanation and further links are what I needed to go to the next steps. 

[Chris_Hofer]

@PaigePrescott ...

No worries.  And, if you decide to go the route via SIS import, here are the admin Guides that you'd want to take a look at:

Admin Guide - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

(Look under the heading "SIS Imports" if the link doesn't take you directly to that section.)