Hello Canvas Community!
Is there a way for an instructor to be notified when a student is added (using the +People button or a .csv SIS Import) to their course?
We use Canvas for Advising students and many times a student will be added, but the instructor isn't notified of the addition.
Thanks for any insight or help!
Sarah
Hi Sarah. Looking through information in the Community, it doesn't appear as though this feature currently exists, but it has been brought up a couple of times:
Notification when a student adds or drops the course (you may need to request access to Cold Storage to view)
Automatic Notification for changes in course enrollment status (open for voting)
One of the suggestions in the first idea is to see if your student information system could send a message when a student is added to a course. Do you know if this is a possibility? I can see the value of having the option to have course enrollment changes being brought to the attention of a teacher so voted for the open idea. You might consider voting as well.
I hope this helps!
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the links! I just went and voted and will share the feature idea with others at my college.
I don't think our SMS would be able to send a message about students being added, but I'll definitely check! Our student management system is a throwback to the 80's--the DOS system. Imagine the original Oregon Trail game, but not as fun...or functional. Users just die of dysentery all the time.
Thanks for your help!
Sarah
LMAO, Sarah Griffith
"Users just die of dysentery all the time."
And even if your Counseling and Advising department emailed the faculty, it is likely they would not open it until sometime in the middle of the next term!
One thing can be said about our buffalo-hunter SMS, it works, and has worked since day-one (I think that was the day Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express Company started business in 1859. I sometimes think it will be 2059 before our new system is operational.
It was good to see you last week at the WACCy!
Kelley
Lol, Kelley. Our SMS is the trusty Wagon wheel that doesn't break .
Great seeing you too at #2018WACC!
I loved that game back in the day Sarah! I'm sure that there was some educational content as well, but all I remember is that there were a lot of ways to die. Now that I think of it, SMS kind of sounds like a disease . . .
Hi Sarah. Looking through information in the Community, it doesn't appear as though this feature currently exists, but it has been brought up a couple of times:
Notification when a student adds or drops the course (you may need to request access to Cold Storage to view)
Automatic Notification for changes in course enrollment status (open for voting)
One of the suggestions in the first idea is to see if your student information system could send a message when a student is added to a course. Do you know if this is a possibility? I can see the value of having the option to have course enrollment changes being brought to the attention of a teacher so voted for the open idea. You might consider voting as well.
I hope this helps!