Manage your students' add or drop requests in Canvas

When students submit electronic requests to add or withdraw from your courses, alert buttons labeled students waiting to add or students waiting to withdraw appear in the sidebar of your course home pages in Canvas, as well as in the Canvas dashboard. These buttons are only visible when there are pending add or drop requests in your SIS SIS Worklist.

To view and process eAdd or eDrop requests:

1. Log into Canvas.
2. Navigate to the Canvas Dashboard, "All Courses" page, or the home page for any course in which you are enrolled as an instructor.

   If students are waiting to add or withdraw from one of your classes, you'll see the students waiting to add and/or students waiting to withdraw alert buttons in the right sidebar. The number in the red circle shows how many of each type of request are waiting in your SIS Worklist.

   
3. To view and process the requests, select the appropriate alert button. You'll be taken to a filtered view of your SIS Worklist that shows only eAdd or eDrop requests.
4. To view an individual request, select the document ID in the left column. Then review each pending request, and approve, deny, or take other actions as appropriate. For more about processing eAdd or eDrop requests, see IT Training's eDocs job aids.

Requesting students will receive email notification when routing/approval is complete.