Community staff and student enrolments

Community owners can manage staff and student user enrolments in their Community.

Community owners are granted Instructor and Enroller roles by default. The Instructor role allows users to manage content and the Enroller role enables the management of users.

The role of Enroller is only available in LMS Communities. Enrollers are able to add users in Student roles to their Communities via the People page.

Submit a support request to Teaching and Learning Innovation if you require access to this role. We also advise using cohort linking to automatically student enrolments into your Community based on subject enrolments.

Add users to a Community as staff

Staff can be added to your Community using the Staff Roles tool; the same method used when adding staff to Subjects. Please refer to the Staff roles and permission guide for further information on how to do this.

Add users to a Community as students

This information applies to Communities only. Students seeking academic credit in an LMS Subject cannot be enrolled directly through Canvas. All student enrolments in LMS Subjects are automatically fed through StudentOne.

  1. In your Community, click the People link in the subject navigation menu
  2. Click the + People button

Screenshot of an LMS Community’s People page. On the left-hand side there is the subject navigation menu. In the center of the page is a Search people bar with a filter for role-type. On the right-side there is a highlighted +People button.

  1. A new Add People window will display.
  2. Use the SIS IDs field to enter members' unique identifiers (for example, jsmith or 101010). To add multiple users simultaneously, insert a comma between SIS IDs.

Screenshot of the Add People window. The option to add users by username is selected by default. In the center of the window is a field for SIS IDs. Beneath this field are drop-downs for Role and Section. On the bottom-right of the window, there are options to proceed Next or Cancel.

  1. The Section drop-down is useful if you wish to control access visibility of users between Sections .
    1. To give the user(s) access to the whole Community, select the Section with the full Community name from the dropdown list.
    2. To give them access to just one Section, select the appropriate Section from the dropdown list.
  2. When ready, click Next.
  3. Ensure the Add People confirmation screen has the correct name and a green tick to indicate you are correctly adding the user(s) to your Community, then click Add Users.

Removing members

Using the People page, users with the Enroller role can remove individual Community members. By clicking on the three-dot menu located on the right-side of users, Enrollers can click Remove From Subject to unenrol students or staff.

Screenshot of an LMS Community’s People page. On the top of the page is the Search people bar with a filter for role-type. Beneath that are the list of enrolled users, with a three-dot menu selected for ‘Student One’ revealing a menu where the option “Remove From Subject” is highlighted.

This guide was last updated 28 Apr 2026.

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