Registration FAQ for Faculty
If a student is officially enrolled in your course, they will appear on your Canvas roster with a “Student” status. Persons on your roster with a “Visitor” status are not officially enrolled.
The Faculty Grade Submission system (FGS) is the official enrollment roster.
If permission has been requested, you will receive a daily email notification that contains the name of the courses, the Yale College student(s), and brief instructions. You may at any time log in to Yale Course Search and select the “Courses I Manage” option to review and grant pending permission requests from Yale College students.
Canvas is not the official record of enrollment. Course demand statistics and Canvas rosters update at different times of the day, and when registration is open to students, they may add and remove courses from both their registration worksheet (official enrollment) and their Canvas worksheet as often as they would like. When registration is closed, fluctuations in rosters and course demand statistics should mostly cease with the exception of administrative changes.
No. Canvas is the learning management system and it has no impact on formal instructor permission or course enrollment.
If instructor permission is required in order to enroll in your course, students must submit the permission request through their Yale Course Search registration worksheet. If you grant permission to the student, they will then be able to enroll and gain automatic access to your Canvas course site.
Instructions regarding reviewing and granting permissions requests are here.