I work at a K-12 School District. All of our professional staff have CANVAS accounts generated via our SIS, but other users do not have accounts (e.g., charter school employees, para-professionals, janitors, lunch ladies, etc.). With state testing coming up, our district test coordinator created a CANVAS course to supplement training and house resources. This is great and easy to manage for our professional staff, but has challenges for our charter schools and para-professionals. What is the easiest and most efficient method to have non-CANVAS users access a course in a secure instance (e.g., https://myinstance.instructure.com vs. http://canvas.instructure)? I know how to generate a link and generate a self-enrollment code for a course, but this does not seem helpful if a user doesn't have an account. Thoughts?
Matt, how comfortable would you feel about making the course public? If you didn't mind doing this, then anyone with the link could access the course materials. The other thing you could do is manually create accounts for the non-institution users. We do this all the time and it seems to work fine to get people into Canvas.
Kona