Adding Participants to a Canvas Course

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An overview of adding participants to a Canvas course.

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Adding Participants

Manage and add course participants by entering your course and selecting the People page from the Course Navigation Menu.

MHC Tip: Students are automatically enrolled via the Registrar’s Office. Use the steps below only to enroll participants outside of the official roster. Manual enrollments generate an email invitation. The participant’s status will display as Pending until they accept the invitation.

  1. To add a participant to a course, navigate to the People page and select the “+ People” button.

    An image of the People page as selected from the Course in the Global Navigation Menu.An image of the “+ People” button highlighted in the People page.
     
  2. Add the participant's email address, select the desired role and section, and click "Next":

An image of the “Add People” popup window.

Pending recognition of the participant, a second pop-up window will appear to confirm the enrollment. If the information is correct, click the “Add Users” button.

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Article ID: 19869
Created
Thu 4/9/26 2:01 PM
Modified
Fri 6/5/26 3:24 PM