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You can enroll another teacher in your course as a Collaborator and he/she can then easily import content from your course into their own. They won't be able to edit or see any student data.

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Adding Students to Your Courses by Janetta

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Student Enrollment in Courses

INITIAL ENROLLMENT: At the start of each semester, students will be enrolled in their Canvas courses based on their schedule in SIS. As new students enroll, they will also be enrolled in their Canvas courses.

SCHEDULE CHANGES: If a student changes their schedule, it will be up to the teacher to add them to their courses. If a student drops your course, you can conclude their enrollment in the course. If you need a students moved to a different period/section, please contact Janetta Garton or Amber Hainline.

CONCLUDING A COURSE: Concluding a course means that all users in the course will have read-only access to the course. Based on the term for the course (Fall 2015, Year, Fall 2016, etc), a course will automatically conclude for students a few days after the last day of class. For teachers, the course will automatically conclude at a later date to allow some time for editing if needed. Concluded courses are archived and students can no longer participate in the course, nor can instructors edit the course. Do not delete your course because you will want to import content from it into the new empty course shell that you will have to use for the next time you are teaching the course.

Teacher Enrollment in Courses
At the end of the school year, after all the courses for the upcoming school year are set up in SIS, new course shells will be created in Canvas and the appropriate teachers enrolled. This will allow teachers to work on their courses for the upcoming school year during the Summer if so desired.

Teachers can choose to enroll other teachers in their courses. There are roles (teacher, student, observer, etc.) that can be assigned when a person is enrolled in a course. Below are some examples of how you might use these roles.

SPED: There's a special ed teacher working with you that needs editing rights to the course and needs to monitor the special ed students progress in the course. You could enroll him/her as a TA (Teacher Assistant). If there's a special ed teacher who needs to only monitor a special ed student, you can assign them the role of observer and link him/her to that student. Note: Paras do not have Canvas accounts.

SHARING CONTENT: There's a another teacher, teaching the same course as you, and the two of you would like to be able to import content from each other's courses into your own. You do not need to edit each other courses or view any student data. In this case, you can enroll the other teacher as a Collaborator.

VIEW ACCESS: There are other teachers who are interested in viewing your course to see how it is set up. They do not teach the same courses as you, so they are not interested in using any of your content in their courses. You can enroll these teachers as Observers.

Parent Accounts

Parents have the ability to register themselves for a Canvas course and become an observer of their child(ren) in your courses.

It is up to you to when, or if you share this this information with parents. If you are just getting started with Canvas, you may not be ready to have parent observers.

There is a webpage on the High School website, Canvas Help for Parents, with information about signing up and using Canvas to which you can direct parents. You can find it on the Parent Resources menu.

Access this Parent Observer Accounts page to learn more.

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