[ARCHIVED] Creating new roles managed by Teacher

[jo_keith1]

Our faculty are not permitted to add students to their courses to prevent grade upload issues in external system among other problems.  We do allow them to manage the add/delete of guest students in their courses.

In Canvas, if I create "Guest Student" and base it on the established student role (exact same options enabled) then the Teacher cannot access "Guest Student" because one option does not allow me to enable Teacher can add this role.  We attempted to create the Guest Student based on Designer, but designer could not Submit Assignments.

Any ideas how to work around this? 

[ahess4]

Hi  @jo_keith ‌,

We had the same issue - we have the default 'Student' role managed by our SIS system and did not allow faculty to add students to courses. After some push back from faculty not being able to add students to courses, we created a 'Non-SIS Student' role based on the default Student role. But, there isn't a way to allow faculty to add one role to a course and not the other. So, we turned on the add student permission for faculty, and then hid the default Student role (and others) via custom java script:

function addpeople_magic() {     if (new_magic === true) {         $("#addpeople_next").hide(); //hide Next button.         $("#peoplesearch_select_role").prepend('<option value="0" disabled selected="selected">Select One...</option>'); //Prepend non-selectable dummy option telling user Select One         $("#peoplesearch_select_role option[value='3']").remove(); //remove student role from add users.         $("#peoplesearch_select_role option[value='4']").remove(); //remove Teacher role         $("#peoplesearch_select_role option[value='5']").remove(); //remove TA role         $("#peoplesearch_select_role").on('change', function () { //wait for selected item to change             $("#addpeople_next").show(); //reveal Next button.         })     }     if (new_magic === false) {         //if running after back button is pressed the next button shouldn't be hidden and prepended option shouldn't be selected.         $("#peoplesearch_select_role").prepend('<option value="0" disabled>Select One...</option>'); //Prepend non-selectable dummy option telling user Select One         $("#peoplesearch_select_role option[value='3']").remove(); //remove student role from add users.         $("#peoplesearch_select_role option[value='4']").remove(); //remove Teacher role         $("#peoplesearch_select_role option[value='5']").remove(); //remove TA role     } } //End Functions  if (/courses\/[0-9]+\/users$/.test(window.location.pathname)) {     $(document).ready(function () {         //edit role changes         $(document).on('click', '[data-event="editRoles"]', function () {             $("#role_id option[value='3']").remove(); //remove student role from edit user role.             $("#role_id option[value='4']").remove(); //remove Teacher role             $("#role_id option[value='5']").remove(); //remove TA role         });          //add people changes         // create an observer instance         var observer = new MutationObserver(function (mutations) {             var addpeople = document.getElementById('peoplesearch_select_role');             var backbutton = document.getElementById('addpeople_back');             var panel = document.getElementById('addpeople_panelDescription');             if (observer_state === true) {                 if (addpeople) {                     addpeople_magic();                     observer_state = false;                 }             }             if (backbutton) { //if it detects back button it resets state to true so it will continue to look for existence of role select box                 if ($('span:contains("Start Over")').length) {                      observer_state = true;                     new_magic = true;                 }                 if ($('span:contains("Back")').length) {                     observer_state = true;                     new_magic = false;                 }             }             if (!panel) { //if add people window goes away the observer state is set back to true so if will detect the role select box (if it reappears)                 observer_state = true                 new_magic = true             }         })          var target = document.body //have to monitor body because span is direct child of body.         var config = {             childList: true,             subtree: true         }          // pass in the target node, as well as the observer options         observer.observe(target, config);     }); };

[ahess4]

Well, that didn't post right... I'll try again.

If it still looks like hell, here is the link to our js: 

https://instructure-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/account_65920000000000001/attachments/1041716/emory_glo... 

function addpeople_magic() {     if (new_magic === true) {         $("#addpeople_next").hide(); //hide Next button.         $("#peoplesearch_select_role").prepend('<option value="0" disabled selected="selected">Select One...</option>'); //Prepend non-selectable dummy option telling user Select One         $("#peoplesearch_select_role option[value='3']").remove(); //remove student role from add users.         $("#peoplesearch_select_role option[value='4']").remove(); //remove Teacher role         $("#peoplesearch_select_role option[value='5']").remove(); //remove TA role         $("#peoplesearch_select_role").on('change', function () { //wait for selected item to change             $("#addpeople_next").show(); //reveal Next button.         })     }     if (new_magic === false) {         //if running after back button is pressed the next button shouldn't be hidden and prepended option shouldn't be selected.         $("#peoplesearch_select_role").prepend('<option value="0" disabled>Select One...</option>'); //Prepend non-selectable dummy option telling user Select One         $("#peoplesearch_select_role option[value='3']").remove(); //remove student role from add users.         $("#peoplesearch_select_role option[value='4']").remove(); //remove Teacher role         $("#peoplesearch_select_role option[value='5']").remove(); //remove TA role     } } //End Functions  if (/courses\/[0-9]+\/users$/.test(window.location.pathname)) {     $(document).ready(function () {         //edit role changes         $(document).on('click', '[data-event="editRoles"]', function () {             $("#role_id option[value='3']").remove(); //remove student role from edit user role.             $("#role_id option[value='4']").remove(); //remove Teacher role             $("#role_id option[value='5']").remove(); //remove TA role         });          //add people changes         // create an observer instance         var observer = new MutationObserver(function (mutations) {             var addpeople = document.getElementById('peoplesearch_select_role');             var backbutton = document.getElementById('addpeople_back');             var panel = document.getElementById('addpeople_panelDescription');             if (observer_state === true) {                 if (addpeople) {                     addpeople_magic();                     observer_state = false;                 }             }             if (backbutton) { //if it detects back button it resets state to true so it will continue to look for existence of role select box                 if ($('span:contains("Start Over")').length) {                      observer_state = true;                     new_magic = true;                 }                 if ($('span:contains("Back")').length) {                     observer_state = true;                     new_magic = false;                 }             }             if (!panel) { //if add people window goes away the observer state is set back to true so if will detect the role select box (if it reappears)                 observer_state = true                 new_magic = true             }         })          var target = document.body //have to monitor body because span is direct child of body.         var config = {             childList: true,             subtree: true         }          // pass in the target node, as well as the observer options         observer.observe(target, config);     }); };

[jo_keith1]

Thanks for that suggestion. I will pass this suggestion along to the team and see if this will provide a work around.  Many thanks for your time.