Users - act as

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Users - act as

What it Does

People (Account)

Allows user to act as other users in the account.

This permission should only be assigned to users that your institution has authorized to act as other users in your entire Canvas account.

Users with this permission may be able to use the Act as feature to manage account settings, view and adjust grades, access user information, etc.

Student Context Card

Allows user to access the Act as User link on student context cards.

SpeedGrader

Allows user to delete a submission file.

People (Course)

Allows user to view Login IDs in a course People page.

Additional Considerations

API

The Roles API refers to this permission as become_user.

People (Account)

To view the list of users in an account, Users - view list must be enabled.

Student Context Card

Student Context Cards must be enabled for an account by an admin.

Subaccounts

Not available at the subaccount level.

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This documentation is generated directly from the Canvas LMS source code, available on Github.