Report of Canvas admins and their permissions

[morgan_j]

Wondering if anyone has a script they can share that would provide a list of all the admins in our Canvas instance along with what permissions that they posses?  The Admin Provisioning Report provides a list of all the admins, but I was hoping to have a report that would show the admins and their permissions.

Thanks!

[carrie]

Hi jmorgan‌,

The Roles API can be used to pull a list of roles and their associated permissions.

Maybe cross reference your list of admins with that report to figure out who has access to what.

Roles - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation  

{  
// The label of the role.  
"label": "Some Role",  
// The label of the role. (Deprecated alias for 'label')  
"role": "Some Role",  
// The role type that is being used as a base for this role. For account-level roles, this is 'AccountMembership'. For course-level roles, it is an enrollment type.  
"base_role_type": "AccountMembership",  
// JSON representation of the account the role is in.  
"account": {"id":1019,"name":"CGNU","parent_account_id":73,"root_account_id":1,"sis_account_id":"cgnu"},  
// The state of the role: 'active', 'inactive', or 'built_in'  
"workflow_state": "active",  
// A dictionary of permissions keyed by name (see permissions input parameter in the 'Create a role' API).  
"permissions": {"read_course_content":{"enabled":true,"locked":false,"readonly":false,"explicit":true,"prior_default":false},"read_course_list":{"enabled":true,"locked":true,"readonly":true,"explicit":false},"read_question_banks":{"enabled":false,"locked":true,"readonly":false,"explicit":true,"prior_default":false},"read_reports":{"enabled":true,"locked":false,"readonly":false,"explicit":false}}
}

Hope that helps!

carrie

[morgan_j]

Hi Deactivated user.  Thank you for your response and information you provided.  I can pass this along to our programmer and see if he can work his magic to create the report we are wanting.