Users who have the role of Course Manager in a course, and some sub-account admin roles, can manually add users to a course.
If you have this permission, you will see a gold "+People" button on the top right of the People page for a course.
For almost all manual enrollments we recommend that the base roles "Student" and "Teacher" not be used. These roles should be exclusively used for users officially enrolled in SIS-rostered courses. By using a different role for manual enrollments, it allows us to filter out these users from our usage data, and acts as a flag that the user was added manually. Please use the following Role assignments
- Instead of "Student" use "Participant"
- Instead of "Teacher" use "Co-Instructor" (even if there is no other instructor in the course)*
The permissions for these roles are exactly the same as their respective base roles.
These guidelines apply to both manually-created courses (such as course sites used for Faculty workshops) AND to users who are being added manually to SIS-rostered courses (unofficial students or co-instructors), with some exceptions (see below)
It is especially important that a user who is primarily a teacher NOT be assigned to the role Student in any course (unless they are officially enrolled as student), but it is acceptable to give them the Participant Role. A user who is primarily a Student should not be give the role of Teacher or any other Teacher-based role (Co-Instructor, Course Manager, etc), even in a manually created course. If a student needs elevated permissions in a course, consult the Education Technology Office (eto@framingham.edu).
*There are some exceptions to this. Canvas administrators: consult the guidelines listed in Canvas Permissions - What Role Should I Assign this User To?