Hello
I was reading the update notice for 6-4-16 and was curious about the change to course invitations, specifically "When an institution disabled course invitations..." I didnt know this was possible. I've searched the community postings and our account admin settings, but haven't found where this permission is located so I can disable invitations. Can someone direct me to this?
Thanks!
We too would like this option, since we can't edit the message going out. It's confusing to the recipient (what is my username? What is my password?) and also provides a link with very little information. Many students won't know what Instructure is. We've had too many phishing emails with links and we're trying to teach everyone not to click on them.
There are actually several settings in Canvas that only your CSM at Instructure can change. For example, your CSM can enable students to access your Beta or Test environment, turn on or off the Canvas Chat, enable the Roll Call feature, etc. This could be one of those CSM settings as well. My recommendation would be to contact your CSM for more information. They could either change the setting for you, direct you how to change the setting, or contact someone else at Instructure who knows more about this setting.
Hello Tiffany Morgan...
As a side note related to your question, if you have questions about any of the new features in the Beta Release Notes or the Production Release Notes (when they are published here in the Canvas Community), you can post those questions at the bottom of the release notes, and you'll more than likely get a response from Instructure. That way, you wouldn't necessarily have to post a separate discussion about something you've read elsewhere in the Community. Hope this is helpful for you.
Hi, Tiffany,
The Invitation Preview feature allows as student to view the course before actually accepting the course invitation. They see a message at the top of the screen that says something like "You can look around but you'll have to accept the course invitation before you can participate." And then they can either click the Accept or Deny button depending on whether they accept or not. So think of Invitation Previews as a preview for the course itself.
However, if Invitation Previews are disabled, when students view the course they automatically accept the course invitation and don't have to do anything to join the course. If they try to click the link to the course, they have already joined it. Usually the Course Invitation feature is enabled for accounts, but your Customer Success Manager can turn it off if you prefer so that students always automatically get enrolled in the courses.
Just to clarify course enrollment invitations, every course enrollment added manually through the Canvas interface receives a course invitation email. The only way to "turn it off" is by adding students via SIS. SIS enrollments do not send course invitation emails.
As part of some future documentation updates to enrollments, we'll be including mention of the small differences with the Invitation Previews feature when students view a course enrollment invitation.
Hope that helps!
Erin
Thanks Everyone--those responses are helpful!
Hi, Tiffany,
The Invitation Preview feature allows as student to view the course before actually accepting the course invitation. They see a message at the top of the screen that says something like "You can look around but you'll have to accept the course invitation before you can participate." And then they can either click the Accept or Deny button depending on whether they accept or not. So think of Invitation Previews as a preview for the course itself.
However, if Invitation Previews are disabled, when students view the course they automatically accept the course invitation and don't have to do anything to join the course. If they try to click the link to the course, they have already joined it. Usually the Course Invitation feature is enabled for accounts, but your Customer Success Manager can turn it off if you prefer so that students always automatically get enrolled in the courses.
Just to clarify course enrollment invitations, every course enrollment added manually through the Canvas interface receives a course invitation email. The only way to "turn it off" is by adding students via SIS. SIS enrollments do not send course invitation emails.
As part of some future documentation updates to enrollments, we'll be including mention of the small differences with the Invitation Previews feature when students view a course enrollment invitation.
Hope that helps!
Erin