text: Students marked "pending" status but have viewed pages in the course?
  This is a screenshot of a student that has the pending flag still attached to their account, but you can see from the Last Activity that they have been in the course. This screenshot is from the People section of the course.
  I can also confirm in their Page View details on their account that they have viewed course URLs including the invite link and various modules.
  How is this possible? I thought the student had to either accept the invite or if they viewed the course, that the pending flag would disappear?
  I've searched forums and haven't found anything concrete. The closest forum that explains this issue is this, where I believe it's being suggested that the students may have accessed via a direct link - I tested this and could not replicate and don't understand how a student could view the invite link and still have a pending flag?:
  Has anyone run into this before and know the cause so we can fix this?
  Solved! Go to Solution.
  Was finally able to replicate the issue. The only cause we can find is that students that are already enrolled in our instance of Canvas are using a direct link to a course or module while also not accepting the invite. We thought changing the course visibility from "institutional" to "course" might prevent them from viewing course/mods with a direct link while also not accepting the invite, but this was proven to not be true.
  As far as we can tell, there is no way around this issue other than to remind staff and students to not use direct links and to encourage them to accept invites asap.
  Thanks for that update, @tregg76.
  What you have described does make sense. The challenges to this will be with course design because of (1) being enrolled into the course twice and (2) when creating an announcement, something that faculty may do on a week-to-week basis, it can be common to use the RCE and its hyperlinks feature to link directly to content.
  If you are able to manage (or at least understand the reason) those challenges internally, you should not have anything to be concerned with.