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Enrolling students in your self-paced course

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Andrew Hayes

Finished compiling your content into modules, quizzes, and assignments? Verified that all content is accessible following the guidelines in the course Faculty Resources and published your course?

Now let’s get your course ready for enrolling students. In Canvas, you will a self-enrollment link or code.

Enable Course Self-Enrollment

  1. Open your course
  2. Navigate to your course settings
AEM-101 course home page, with 'Settings' highlighted
  1. Scroll to the bottom of Course Details and click on more options
Course settings page, with 'more options' highlighted
  1. Click the first box for Let students self-enroll by sharing with them a secret URL or code
  2. Click Update Course Settings
Course settings, with 'Let students self-enroll by sharing with them a secret URL or code' highlighted. Update course details to save

What do I do next?

Copy the generated URL (uga.instructure.com/enroll/CourseID) and post the link in the appropriate location for your students to enroll, for example, on your program website or an invitation email.

Canvas course details with the course self-enrollment link and code highlighted
CourseID will be a unique set of letters and numbers connected to your course

This is the only path for enrolling students in your course.

Need help?

Email the CAES Web Team with any questions.

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Andrew Hayes

Andrew is the digital delivery support professional with the Office of Information Technology. He provides direct training and support for delivering content using digital platforms and applications including Zoom, Teams, WeVideo, Canva, and the Canvas Learning Management System.

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