Name
Reimagining Student Ambassadors with Canvas for Ownership & Excellence
Date & Time
Thursday, September 24, 2026, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Speakers
Description
At St. Andrew's Episcopal School, we restructured our Student Ambassador Program to better reflect the leadership expectations we place on our students and the operational needs of a modern enrollment office. By transitioning the program onto Canvas as a formal “course,” we transformed ambassador coordination from a loosely managed extracurricular activity into a structured, accountable, and student-driven leadership experience.
In this session, we will share how moving the Student Ambassador Program onto a platform students already engage with daily increased accountability, organization, and ownership. Tours are now assigned through Canvas as formal assignments, meetings are posted within the course calendar, and modules house essential resources such as tour routes, expectations, training materials, and communication guidelines. This structure ensures ambassadors have immediate access to materials while reinforcing professional responsibility through clear deadlines and submission expectations.
Attendees will gain practical insight into:
- Designing a student leadership program within an existing LMS
- Increasing student accountability through assignment-based tour scheduling
- Streamlining communication between enrollment staff and student leaders
- Creating scalable systems that enhance the visitor experience
- Elevating the ambassador role from volunteer to trained campus representative
- Motivating ambassadors through incentives
This session is ideal for enrollment professionals seeking to strengthen student engagement, improve operational efficiency, and build systems that empower students to take meaningful ownership of the admission process.
Participants will leave with a replicable framework for restructuring their own Student Ambassador Programs using tools already available within their schools’ learning management systems.
Location Name
Pacific Ballroom 14 (Ground Level)