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Hi Sue,
That would be controlled in the enrollments file with the Role field. Full documentation here https://my.instructure.com/doc/api/file.sis_csv.html. In Canvas when you create a user account you don't specify if they are a student, teacher, admin, etc. I like to say all users are created equal in Canvas. It's how you enroll them into a course or account that gives them their permissions. So one person could be a student in some courses and a teacher in other courses.
Rick
Hi Rick. The page you link you sent is great for WHAT the field is but I want to know WHERE to find the field. For example, the "enrollments" csv file maps what field from what csv file connects to each other but where do I get the course_id and section_id field from? Also, what field connects the student to the teacher and their course?
Sue
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