How do I get help adding an SIS ID and Login ID for new class members?

[burtfam6]

How do I get help adding an SIS ID and Login ID for new class members?

[Robbie_Grant · Accepted solution]

 @burtfam6 ‌,

Welcome to the Canvas Community!!!

If you are using the Free for teacher version of Canvas, you will need to contact Instructure Support from Help > Report a Problem.

If you are at a school that is using the paid version of Canvas, I would recommend contacting your Canvas Administrator.

Robbie 

[lromans]

The question depends how you would like to bring new students in.
Manually you could add students in Admin / People and populate the SIS and login details, but guessing if you are wanting SIS id populating your looking at getting data from your student information system (SIS) to populate students into Canvas.

We recently started using Canvas and looked at this, there are 2 basic routes we found:

1. Bulk uploading using a formatted csv file out  of the SIS and imported as a job into Canvas.
2. Using the API to create the user account.

We decided down the route of API as dynamically provisioning students once at an "enroll" status in our SIS, but this route will need you to have a developer onboard to develop the service.  If you have this can point you in the direction of setting up API key you will need and the POST requests format of the message for API.

The  bulk upload method this document is helpful, but we only used once.https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-12585-4214164118 

Les