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Adding / Removing Users in Your Course
Updated onArticleFor official course sites, students that have enrolled in the course through the registration system will be added to your course site automatically. Users you need to add to your course site manually may include:
- Teaching Assistants / Teaching Fellows
- Guest Lecturers
- Unofficially auditing students (official auditors should register officially with the registrar)
- Students who are on a wait-list
- Students who made revisions to their registration
- Guests from other institutions
- Guests from other institutions will need to have an account created for them in Canvas before you can add them to your course site. To request a guest account, please complete the Guest Account Request Form.
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Term Dates Vs. Course Dates & Concluding / Resetting Courses
Updated onArticleThis article describes the differences between term dates and course dates. It also provides details and instructions on concluding and resetting courses
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Posting Your Syllabus in Canvas
Updated onArticleThe Canvas Syllabus tool is a useful way to articulate your course objectives, structure, and expectations to prospective students during enrollment and students enrolled throughout the semester. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate three ways you may want to add your course syllabus content to Canvas.
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Canvas Groups: Overview
Updated onArticleThe Canvas Group Sets / Groups tool allows instructors to split students up into smaller working groups for collaborative assignment work and discussions. When you set up the groups, each group is provided a “Group Site” with various tools that they can use to facilitate collaboration. Instructors can create and assign Canvas Discussion and Canvas Assignment activities to a group set for the purpose of collecting and monitoring group work.
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Filtering the Courses List
Updated onArticleThe Courses list, found in the Global Navigation menu, can sort courses at the top of each column to make it easier to sort and find specific courses you may be looking for.
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Blackboard Ally: Viewing and Using the Course Accessibility Report
Updated onArticleThe Course Accessibility Report (found in every Canvas course's Course Navigation) acts as a complement to the existing accessibility indicators found throughout a Canvas course site. It provides an accessibility summary and overview at the course level for Instructors, TAs, and academic support staff.
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Online Portfolios at the Yale Divinity School FAQs
Updated onArticleFor general and up-to-date WordPress help, we recommend Getting Started with WordPress
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Photo Roster: Overview
Updated onArticleThe Photo Roster tool is a Yale-developed tool available to Instructors and TAs to provide enhanced features that are missing from the Canvas People tool, such as providing information like their photo, major, year, college, and email address.
The Photo Roster tool does not replace the People tool when it comes to adding / removing users in your course. For a full description of the differences, please refer to our help article People Tool versus Photo Roster.
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