As an admin, you can view and manage sub-accounts in Canvas. Sub-accounts help establish your account's hierarchical structure and house courses and enrollments.
All of your institution’s sub-accounts are located within the root account. However, sub-accounts can include additional nested sub-accounts, and sub-account admins can view a list of all the sub-accounts in their account.
Sub-accounts can be created and managed manually or via SIS upload. Additionally, sub-accounts created via API or SIS upload retain the identifiers given in the original source. You can edit sub-account names to make them easier to find within Canvas.
View a video about Sub-Accounts.
Notes:
- Sub-accounts that contain courses cannot be deleted.
- Each root account automatically includes a sub-account called Manually-Created Courses that manages multiple backend processes for Canvas and cannot be deleted.
Open Account
In Global Navigation, click the Admin link [1], then click the name of the account [2].
Open Sub-Accounts
In Account Navigation, click the Sub-Accounts link.
View Sub-Account
Sub-accounts are listed in alphabetical order. To view a sub-account, click the sub-account name.
Collapse and Expand Sub-Account List
Many Canvas accounts contain multiple sub-accounts with nested sub-accounts. To more easily navigate within sub-accounts, you can collapse sub-account lists, hiding them from view.
To collapse a list of sub-accounts, click the Up Arrow icon [1].
To expand a list of sub-accounts that have been collapsed, click the Down Arrow icon [2].
Manage Sub-Account
To edit the name of a sub-account, click the Edit icon [1]. Edit the name of the sub-account by typing in the name field. To save your changes, press the Return key (on a Mac) or Enter key (on a PC) on your keyboard.
To delete a sub-account, click the Delete icon [2].
Note: Sub-accounts that contain courses cannot be deleted.
Confirm Sub-Account Deletion
When you delete a sub-account, a pop-up window will appear in your browser. Click the OK button.
