[ARCHIVED] Confirm Student Enrollment for Testing Purposes

[sywang]

Hi all, 

Is there any way to confirm students' enrollment in a course without doing it individually through emails? I'm a developer who needs to perform testing on hundreds of fake students so that wouldn't be an option. For your reference, I'm using a self-hosted Canvas instance on AWS.

Thanks in advance!!

[mzimmerman · Accepted solution]

Hi @sywang,

If you generate the users and enrollments by uploading a feed file via SIS Integration ( https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Guide/How-do-I-import-SIS-data-to-a-Canvas-account/ta-p/98 ), there is no need to confirm the enrollments.

[mzimmerman · Accepted solution]

Hi @sywang,

If you generate the users and enrollments by uploading a feed file via SIS Integration ( https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Guide/How-do-I-import-SIS-data-to-a-Canvas-account/ta-p/98 ), there is no need to confirm the enrollments.

[sywang]

Hi @mzimmerman ,

Thank you so much for your reply! I batch uploaded a student csv file into my Canvas account using the instructions you provided and added them to the course I'm testing, but I'm still getting a "pending" sign next to the students' names. Is there any way to accept invitations without doing it manually?

Thanks for your help!

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @sywang ...

The "Pending" label means that the student you manually enrolled has not yet accepted the invitation to the course.  When a student signs in to Canvas (after you have manually added the student to the course), the student would get an e-mail notification and also see a course invite at the top of his/her Canvas Dashboard with a button to "Accept" the invitation.

I don't have tons of experience with this, so @mzimmerman may be of more help than I can be... but it sounds like you had uploaded the users via SIS import using something similar to the "users.csv" (under the "CSV Data Formats" header) format shown on this page?  SIS Import Format Documentation - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation (instructure.com)

I *think* this would only batch upload the users...but not assign them to courses.  If you scroll down a bit more on that page, there is an "enrollments.csv" table which gives the field names including the "course_id" and "user_id" (used from the "users.csv" file).  I *think* you need to upload this file, too (?).

Again, I don't have tons of experience with this, but I have talked with someone in our IT department who handles our SIS uploads for courses, students, enrollments, etc., and I *think* this is what he typically does (if I remember correctly).  Since users are added to courses via SIS import, then the "Pending" label you were asking about on the "People" page wouldn't show up...so it's not an issue any more.

If Mike Z. has a different way that this should be done (or if I've completely missed the boat on this), I'd be happy to be wrong...but I'll defer to him for a more help.  Take care...

[mzimmerman]

Hi @sywang 

If you use the SIS Import steps to enroll the students in the course, not just create their user accounts, then they do not need to accept an invitation for their enrollment to be complete.

[sywang]

Hi @mzimmerman @Chris_Hofer ,

Thank you both so much for your help! I tried creating courses using "courses.csv" and using a modified "enrollment.csv" to assign each student to a specific course but for some reason, they did not appear in the people section of that course (in this case, I'm trying to assign students to a course named ACCT300 and its course_id is B00300). Do you know what went wrong?

The csv files I used are attached below.

Thanks so much for answering my question, I really appreciate it!

[mzimmerman]

@sywang 

Do you get any error messages when you run the feed file?

[sywang]

Hi @mzimmerman ,

No. It only showed "The import is complete and all records were successfully imported."

[mzimmerman · Accepted solution]

Hi @sywang 

It should also have listed how many records of each type were imported. 

It looks like you included lots of extra/non-essential fields in your feed files.   The enrollments file really just needs a course_id, a user_id, a role, and a status, for instance.