Enabling Self-Enrollment in your Canvas Course

Description

Self-enrollment allows students to enroll themselves in your manually created course  through a secret URL or code. Self-enrollment can be enabled for a course whether or not the course is publicly visible. Self-enrollment is only available for manually created courses and is not available for academic courses. Self-enrollment is only relevant to existing Ohio University students, faculty, and staff; it is not available to non-Ohio University users. To self-enroll as a student, the person must already exist as a user in Canvas. 

Environment

Canvas in your web browser

Solution 

Prerequisites

Self-enrollment is only available for manually created courses. You can either request the self-enrollment feature when you request your manually created course, or you can request that it be added to an existing manually created course. You can submit these requests by selecting the Create Ticket link in the top-right corner of this page.

Enabling Self-Enrollment

To enable self-enrollment for your course, follow the step-by-step instructions in the How Do I Enable Course Self-Enrollment  help article from Canvas.    

Outcome:You should now be able to set your manually created course as open to self-enrollment.

Get Help from Canvas

• Live chat with Canvas support (Faculty)
• Get 24-hours/7-days a week Canvas support  
  • Dial the  Canvas Support Hotline number located under "Get Help" in the  Canvas  Global Navigation Menu 
  • Contact OIT at  740-593-1222 for questions related to logging in, test courses/manually created courses, or third-party tools (Panopto, VoiceThread, Inclusive Access, etc.) 

Get Help from OIT

• Use the  Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) ticket form  to submit a help ticket 
• Visit the  Technology Resources and Training  page for available training 

Additional Resources 

• Canvas Basics Guide
• Canvas Instructor Guide
• Canvas Video Guide
• Mobile Guides
• Canvas Course Accessibility Checklist
• Canvas LMS Implementation updates
• Canvas Experts Corner Blog