How To Register For Classes On Canvas

Official academic course sites are created in Sail automatically and enrollments in the sites are managed by the official enrollment information in the registration arrangement (Banner). Official enrollments (Instructors/Students/Auditors) are all managed by the registration organization and can only be modified past a schoolhouse/departmental registrar in Banner.

Changes made to enrollments in the registration system (Banner) will be synchronized to Canvas every 2 hours - and then expected at least a 2 hour delay before changes are reflected in Canvas.

Courses for the Electric current Semester:

Solution: Check to run into what Dashboard View y'all are using.

The Canvas Dashboard page has 3 unlike views you lot can choose from. The virtually mutual view is Bill of fare View which displays your courses as "cards" that you tin can click on.

The other 2 views (List View and Recent Action) do not testify your courses on the Dashboard, so if you cull one of these views, you volition demand to click the Courses push [A] in your left side navigation card and click on your the Canvas Courses in the popular-out drawer [B]. No matter what view you utilize on your Dashboard or where y'all are within Canvass, the Courses button is e'er available in the left-side global navigation bar.

You tin change between views by clicking on the 3-dot menu [1] on the Dashboard page and selecting an alternate view [2].

Solution: Check to come across if you are using form "favorites".

Users can utilise the Canvass "favorites" option to keep their Dashboard clean. Visit our help commodity on How to Favorite your Course to see how you tin can view and update which courses announced on your Dashboard page.

Solution: Check to run across if the instructor has non published the course yet.

Unpublished course sites will not appear on your Dashboard page. Visit our aid article on How do I observe my courses to run into how you can check the status courses you lot are enrolled in. If y'all meet that the course is listed but non published, you tin can accomplish out to your instructor to ask if they program to use Canvas for their class.

Solution: Check back in 2 hours.

Changes made by a registrar are not immediately candy into Sheet. Canvass is updated every two hours.

Solution: Verify that you have registered for the course.

Students must add a class to 1 of their Yale Course Search worksheets** in order to exist enrolled in the course'due south Canvas site:

Registration Worksheet to officially register for the course - volition add you to the course site as a Student OR
Canvass Worksheet to visit a course you are considering - volition add yous to the course site as a Visitor .

After you have added the course to ane of the two worksheets, your enrollment will be processed in up to 2 hours. Cheque dorsum after 2 hours to ensure that the course is listed on your Dashboard page.

For courses that require teacher permission, yous will need to piece of work with the teacher and the departmental registrar to annals for the course.

** Some departments/schools (similar Schoolhouse of Direction and Law Schoolhouse) may utilize other methods for registering for courses - reach out to the departmental/school registrar or back up team for assistance.

I did not register for the course and am non able to add the course to my Worksheets - what exercise I practice?

Solution: Make sure you lot have not reached the maximum allowed courses for shopping.

Yale Course Search's Registration Worksheet restricts students from adding more than v.5 credits to the worksheet. The Canvas Worksheet restricts students from adding more than ten courses to the worksheet. Make sure that you take not reached the maximum class load before you lot add the class to one of your worksheets.

Solution: Brand sure that course option catamenia has not ended.

If you lot are trying to add the course after course option and add/drib catamenia has ended, contact your departmental registrar for assist modifying your courses.

I have registered for the course and waited 2 hours and am however not enrolled in the course - what do I exercise at present?

Contact canvas@yale.edu for further assistance. Make sure that y'all include your name, NetID, and the courses that you are registered for that are not appearing on your dashboard page.

What if I demand access right now - what should I do?

Contact your instructor or departmental registrar and ask them to manually add together yous to your class site with the Guest Student function until the your enrollment has been resolved in the registration system.