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# Users - manage students in courses

## What it Does

### People (Course)

Allows user to view login ID information for students.

Allows user to view prior enrollments.

Allows user to access a user’s settings menu and user details.

Allows user to resend course invitations from the Course People page.

## Additional Considerations

### Courses (Account)

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

### People (Course)

To add or remove a student to or from a course, the Users - Student permission must be enabled.

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

To view SIS IDs, SIS Data - read must be enabled.

To edit a student’s section, Conversations - send to individual course members must also be enabled.

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This documentation is generated directly from the Canvas LMS source code, available [on Github](https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms).


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