I sent a URL for a student to enroll in our course and they tried to access the course, but get an error message and cannot access the course.
Error Message shows as:
{"errors":[{"message":"An error occurred.","error_code":"unprocessable_entity"}]}
get it done?
Hello @kszampruch
Thank you for contacting the Canvas Community. We're sorry to hear you've been experiencing issues with enrolling a student in your course. You sent a URL directly, as in you didn't go to the People tab and add the student via email or ID? Then they won't likely have access to it. Unless you added them, or the school added them to the course, it would need to be a self sign up course for the student to do it themselves.
Here is the Canvas guide:
https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-enable-course-self-enrollment-with-a-join-code-or/ta-p/830
If the student is still getting errors, they should try clearing their cache and cookies, trying another browser or likely contact the school directly.
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