Users - Students

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Users - Students

What it Does

Students - add

Allows user to add students to a course from the account Courses page.

Allows user to update a student’s section enrollment or role.

Allows user to add students to a course.

Students - remove

Allows user to remove students from a course.

Allows user to remove a student’s section enrollment or role.

Allows user to deactivate students in a course.

Additional Considerations

Courses (Account)

If the Open Registration account setting is enabled, users with this permission can add students to a course from the Courses page via email address or login ID even if a student does not already have a Canvas account.

To add a user via SIS ID, SIS Data - manage must also be enabled.

To access the account Courses page, Courses - view list must be enabled.

People (Course)

If an enrollment is created via SIS, only admins can remove the enrollment from a course.

To remove a user via SIS ID, SIS Data - manage must also be enabled.

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