way to identify students with an icon such as a peanut if have allergies or a ball if they are in sports

[rbauerkenya]

We're looking for a way to make it obvious to teachers (but not students) if a student has an allergy. Ideally a peanut icon could appear next to them in the attendance screen or elsewhere. I searched but didn't find anything on this topic. We could even live with a generic icon (say an exclamation point) that just alerts a teacher to go check on the students conditions or memberships etc.

[ProfessorBeyrer · Accepted solution]

That's an outstanding idea, @rbauerkenya! The first solution I can think of is to use the Notes column on the Grades page. 

How do I use the Notes column in the Gradebook?

This requires the teacher (or a sysadmin) type in the information for each student in each class, which is not as efficient as prepopulating that information somehow. However, it would require each teacher to get to know each of their students a little bit more, else they might overlook it if it's put in Canvas by someone else.

I'm going to mark my response as a solution, but there can be more than one. I hope our colleagues here in the Community can share other options for getting this important information to teachers inside Canvas.

[rbauerkenya]

Thanks for this @ProfessorBeyrer. I worry about a transfer of data that is typed by a person. Leads to errors and don't want the peanut allergy left off a kid and then the teacher passes peanut butter cookies around the room. We'd need a way to import the data. It's already in our SIS. We're new to Canvas, but is there any workflow for importing data (of any kind) into the notes or some other field. That would be a viable solution for us. 

[Doug9]

I have a similar question.  In our legacy SIS we have a way where the health clinic can identify students with a medical issue that might affect their learning, for example a concussion, and for a given time period entered by the health clinic the students will show in teacher rosters with a caduceus next to their name.  Other students cannot see this and the teachers do not see any medical details.  We would need to push this data to Canvas via SIS Imports or API.  Is there a way to do this in Canvas (cloud)?