How do I add student profile pictures?

Hi,

We sync our Canvas data from Veracross, but student images are not coming over. Is there a way to add this to the Veracross-Canvas sync or can I batch upload images to student profiles?

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Hildi_Pardo

Hello @ScottCagle -- I don't believe there is an easy way to do this via the usual sync.

Here is a blog someone wrote: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/How-to-Bulk-Load-and-Update-Profile-Avatar-Pictures-with/ba-p/595843

At our K12 school district, we allow users to upload their own pictures.

If you like, as an Canvas Admin, you can manage uploaded pictures: How do I manage profile pictures for users in an account?

We haven't had an issue, and haven't needed to use this feature.

I hope this helps!

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Hildi_Pardo

Hello @ScottCagle -- I don't believe there is an easy way to do this via the usual sync.

Here is a blog someone wrote: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/How-to-Bulk-Load-and-Update-Profile-Avatar-Pictures-with/ba-p/595843

At our K12 school district, we allow users to upload their own pictures.

If you like, as an Canvas Admin, you can manage uploaded pictures: How do I manage profile pictures for users in an account?

We haven't had an issue, and haven't needed to use this feature.

I hope this helps!

ScottCagle

Hildi,

I appreciate the information. This is one of the things that's actually relatively easy in Schoology. I know our faculty like having the official school image thumbnail of the students so I'll need to find a way to make this happen in our Canvas instance.

Thanks,
Scott

Gabriel33

You may be able to edit them using the API.

You should probably first upload the images to Canvas, then update their profile avatars using https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/users.html#method.users.update

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