Adding Guests to a Live Course Site as an Instructor


Academic and non-credit student rosters are enrolled into sections created for a live course site. Instructors should not add guest students into these sections. Instead instructors should create a new section for guests enrollments. Guest students can include:

Courses in Canvas are the virtual classroom where all the content resides and where student users can learn and interact with instructors and peers.

Sections are a group of students that have been organized for administrative purposes. All sections of a course share the same content. 

How To Create A New Section:

  1. Click Settings in the course.
  2. Click the Sections tab near the top of the Course Settings page.
  3. Add a new section. In the section field [1], type the name of the new section. Click the Add Section button [2]

         canvas add section popup

  4. Once you have added sections to your course, you can add users to sections from the People page in your course. Or if you have already added guests to your course site, you can click Edit Sections on the People page to move them to the new section.

         canvas people page with menu option to edit section

 

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