Create your Canvas access key

It is a long code you create in your Canvas so Profesia can see your courses with your own permissions (Canvas calls it a “token”). Create it in the browser, ideally on a computer; not in the Canvas app.

An access key connects any Canvas whose address ends in .instructure.com, and the Universidad Europea's. If your institution's is different, press “Tell Profesia” when you connect or write to us: we will look into it.

In your Canvas, click “Account” in the left menu.
Click “Settings”.
Scroll down to “Approved Integrations” and click “+ New Access Token”.
In “Purpose” type Profesia. In “Expires” (or “Expiration date”) set the last day of the course or leave it empty; if Canvas already fills in a date, keep it.
Click “Generate Token” and copy all of the long text that appears: it is your access key. Canvas shows it only once.

Do not share the key with anyone: it gives the same permissions as your Canvas user.
To delete it in Canvas: Account > Settings > «Approved Integrations», the trash can next to «Profesia» and «OK».
If it stops working after a while, it has expired: create another and connect again.
If «+ New Access Token» is greyed out or missing, your institution does not let you create keys. Ask your Canvas administrator to create one in your name or to add Profesia, or try the example class.Write to the IT service

Has your institution already added Profesia? Then you need no key: in Connect, find your institution and give permission with its button.