How to remove a student from a Canvas course

4/19/21 Update: Teacher role persmissions have changed. If you need to remove or deactivate a student in Scarlet Canvas, contact the Canvas admin for your department. The following procedures may or may not be possible depending on how the Teacher role is configured in an instance of Canvas.

If you are running a term course in another instance of the Canvas LMS, you may want to remove past term students from the course roster. To remove a student:

    • Go to the People roster in your course.
    • Find the student your want to delete. If there are a large number of students you can use the search.
    • Click on the three-dot menu beside their name and choose ‘remove from course’.

 

Last updated on: 4/19/21

Messaging in Canvas

To message all people in a Canvas course:

  • Go to your Canvas InBox.
  • Click on the ‘Compose new message icon’.
  • 1) Click the people icon to the right of the ‘To:’ field.
  • 2) Choose the name of the course in the options that pop up to message all people in the course.
  • Compose your message and send.

 

Last updated on: 11/13/20

Canvas Links & Resources

The full Canvas Instructor Guide from Instructure is a great resource of how-to articles about all features in the Canvas LMS. Instructure is the company behind Canvas.

The Ohio State CFAES Canvas Instructor’s Community course is a Canvas course of resources about the LMS for CFAES instructors teaching courses in Scarlet Canvas. Scarlet is Ohio State’s public-facing LMS platform for non-credit, professional development, continuing education, and enrichment courses. This learning management platform is powered by the Canvas Catalog product from Instructure which can provide automated course completion certificate issuing and public course listings in a course catalog. Canvas courses in the system may be unlisted or publicly listed in the catalog.

The CarmenCanvas section of the Teaching & Learning Resource Center provides a wealth of articles and tutorials about Ohio State’s academic LMS know as Carmen. Many of the concepts are applicable to working in Scarlet Canvas or the Canvas LMS in general.

The Ohio State Keep Teaching Teaching Tools section outlines how to use teaching tools like CarmenCanvas to continue teaching academic courses online or through a hybrid approach. Many hybrid and online teaching concepts are applicable to Extension teaching in Scarlet Canvas.