How To Add A Class In Canvas

Sections in Canvass aid subdivide students within a course and offer section-specific options such as varied due dates for assignments, discussions, and quizzes. Hither are some examples for when sections are particularly helpful:

Provide disability accommodations for a student or group of students (eg, need actress fourth dimension on assignments).
Let students to resolve an incomplete after a form has concluded.
- To allow a student to cease an incomplete in a futurity course (because you lot crave them to interact with other students as part of the required work) contact your local Sheet ambassador or electronic mail [electronic mail protected].

Setting up such an enrollment involves iii steps:

Creating a new section and setting date parameters
Adding student(due south)
Assigning an activity to a section

Creating a new department and setting date parameters

When yous create a new section for students, you may demand to set custom start and finish dates. To create a new section:

Follow the steps in Add together a section to a class as an instructor.
Edit the details for a course department as an teacher. When yous update the section:
1. Specify physical kickoff and end dates (one and two in the image below).
2. Check Users can only participate in the class between these dates (three).
3. Click Update Section (four).

PeopleSoft Teachers

Enrolling a Student

In one case you lot have created a new section, you need to acquaintance educatee(southward) with that section:

Use the Section Enrollment BETA tool to enroll the students OR
Send a list of the existing students you want to add to that section to your local Canvas administrator or email [email protected].

Removing a Manually Enrolled Pupil

The status of manually enrolled students in manually created sections is not updated by the PeopleSoft machine-enrollment procedure. If a student withdraws or drops the class, the student will have to be manually removed. Email [e-mail protected]

Non-PeopleSoft Teachers

In one case yous have created a new department you tin enroll or remove users using People in the grade navigation.

Assigning an activity to the new section

Click Assignments in your grade site'southward navigation bar.
Click the consignment you wish to assign to the new section.

The assignment opens.
Click Edit to open the configuration for that activity.
Scroll down to the Assign area.
Click the +Add together button.
Click in the new Assign to field and select your new section.
Set the Due, Available from, and Bachelor until dates as desired.
Click Save.
Repeat the process as necessary to associate all required work with your new section.

When you are done, students in the new section volition have access to the activities they need.

If yous run across whatsoever issues with this procedure, click Help in the Global Navigation carte to contact the support team or submit a question to [electronic mail protected].

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