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Canvas (UWGB Account Holders Only) - Accepting Continuing Education Course Email Invitations
The purpose of this document is to show UWGB users how to accept externally-facing course invitations when they already have a UWGB account
UW-Green Bay employees and students can join non-credit courses in the Continuing Education instance of Canvas, which is normally reserved for use with external community members. For these courses, it is possible for UWGB students, faculty, and staff to accidentally create a second Canvas user account if they are not careful while accepting email course invitations. In order to prevent that from happening and ensure that all courses appear in Canvas for the user every time they log in, UWGB students and employees should accept course invitations by signing in with their UWGB Canvas user account.
As an alternative to accepting the email invitation, course invitations can also be safely accepted by signing into Canvas and accepting the course invitation notification which appears at the top of the Dashboard.
Accepting the Email Course Invitation
When you're added to one of these special courses, you'll receive a course invitation from "University of Wisconsin Canvas <notifications@instructure.com>" in your email. To accept the invitation:
- Select Get Started in your email invitation.
- A web page will open in your browser. It may ask if you already have a Canvas account. If you see this question, select I have a Canvas Account.
*Note: You may not see this page. That is okay.
- On the UW System sign-in page, select the login type UW Employee/Faculty/Student
- Select UW-Green Bay as your organization then select Go.
- Sign in with your UWGB username and password.
You will now be taken to the course your were invited to. When you sign into Canvas in the future, you will see the course on your Canvas Dashboard alongside your other enrollments.