Overview

Depending on your institution’s settings, you may or may not have access to every setting or feature in your course. For example, students are typically added to courses using an SIS import process. For details about how students are populated into courses or what permissions instructors have on your campus, please check with your eLearning office or Canvas Admin.

To see who is enrolled in your course, use the People page. From there, you can view detailed information about individual students, including grades, interactions, access data, and account details. You can also find a list of enrolled students in the Gradebook on the Grades page.

Course Settings is where you manage many of the main details of your course, such as sections, navigation links, feature options, external apps, and integrations. This is also where you adjust things like course visibility, the course image, grading scheme, and other course-level settings.

Canvas also includes Analytics at the account, course, and student levels. Analytics show how students are interacting with your course and can help you evaluate performance, identify at-risk students, support individual learners, and reflect on the effectiveness of your course design. Using Analytics, you can view data related to student activity, submissions, grades, and overall engagement.

Learning Resources

Explore the links below to learn more about managing managing course settings, enrollments, and student analytics in Canvas. Many of the Guides include short videos along with screenshots and step-by-step instructions, so you can watch and/or read depending on what works best for you.

Each link will open in a new tab. When you're ready, you can return to Canvas 101, by clicking on the Canvas tab in your browser.

Course Settings

People

Analytics

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