Adding a Designer to a Canvas Course or Organization

Introduction

In Canvas, there are several Designer roles that can be used for individuals that are responsible for course maintenance, review and management.

Depending on the type of Designer role applied, users with a Designer role may have permissions that can allow them to create and curate course content, as well as review content, materials and the layout that exists in the course they are enrolled in, or have read only access.

Any faculty member that is teaching a course can enroll another individual as a type of Designer in that course. This guide will walk you through the process.

Note: For more information on the Designer roles, please review this article: Canvas Course Roles

Enrolling a user as a Designer

On the left hand side course navigation menu, select People.
Click the blue button that says + People.
You have the option to add Canvas users by Email Address (firstname.lastname@quinnipiac.edu), Login ID (username) or SIS ID (Student ID #); keep in mind you will only be able to add someone who is a user within Canvas.

Enter their email address and from the Role drop down select the appropriate Designer role based on what permissions they will need.

Then select the section you wish to enroll the user in from the Section drop down. Check the Can interact with users in their section only box, if you wish to limit this individual's access - e.g. when enrolling Peer Catalysts into a specific section of a merged course.

Note: if this is not a merged or cross-listed course, there will most likely only be one section in the drop down menu.

When you are finished click Next.
Any users you have entered that have Canvas accounts will be displayed in a message advising they can be added to the course. Click the Add Users button to add the Designer to your course.
After you have added the user, you will be returned to the People page where you'll see the word "Pending" next to their name; the user will need to accept an invitation to the course.
If you are teaching in course with multiple sections, clicking on the name of the user you added will allow you to change their ability to only interact with the section they were enrolled in during step 3.
After clicking on their name, scroll down to the section that says Membership(s).

You can toggle their ability to interact with only the section they are enrolled in or across the whole course by clicking the link that says limit this user to only see fellow section users or let this user see all course users.

Note: When adding people to your course, this membership privilege will default to allow the person to interact with all users in all sections of the course (if a merged course). Therefore, you must click limit this user to only see fellow section users to change that.