Adding Staff to Canvas (Policy, Guidelines, Procedures)

Prior to completing these forms, please review the following:

This process applies to adding staff, e.g. RA’s, Graders*, Accessibility Support Staff, etc., to your courses in Canvas.  This does not apply to adding area support staff.

      • The CITE team will be solely responsible for adding all support staff to Canvas courses.
      • All support staff must have an employee Passport York account in order to be added to Canvas.
      • Student Passport York accounts cannot be used to add student employees to Canvas.
      • If adding support staff that will not be grading, once the employee Passport York account is available, request that the support staff be added to Canvas course by completing the Add Support Staff to Canvas form below.

*If adding support staff that will be grading:

      • Please note that graders or markers can be used only in exceptional circumstances with the prior approval of the Associate Dean, Academic.
      • It is the responsibility of instructors to review Schulich’s Use of Graders policy before proceeding.
      • To obtain the ADA’s approval complete the Request Approval to Use Grader form below.
      • If the request is approved, the grader requires an employee Passport York ID to be added to Canvas.
      • Student Passport York accounts cannot be used to add student employees to Canvas.
      • Once the employee Passport York account is available, complete the Add Support Staff to Canvas request form below and attach the ADA’s approval email.