[Sections] Edit Section: Restricting students to see own section only

[pdove]

When enrolling students to a course section, there is a small box for you to check to restrict the student to seeing only his/her own section and responses from other students only from his/her section.  If you miss checking this box upon enrollment, the only way to enable the feature is to go into each individual student's profile and make the change.  This should be an option on the "edit section" page.

Comments from Instructure

Sometimes, with the volume of ideas we have coming in, we miss a duplicate.  This idea has a duplicate with Course-Level Setting: Restrict Users to Their Own Section(s).  Both threads will receive the same updates.

[Nancy_Webb_CCSF]

I am sorry it's such a problem, Deactivated user‌. But I am sure the excellent engineers can figure it out!

[John_Lowe]

Exactly, Nancy.  It is like this problem is being fixed from the wrong angle.  Convenience cross listing where instructors use the native Canvas cross-listing feature are where this problem occurs, and the SIS will never know when instructors do this with their own courses.  Since the SIS doesn't know when instructors cross-list their own courses, a SIS import solution is less than optimal. Instructors do, so a course-level setting should be the area where a solution is developed.  Basically, we need a three-click solution that an instructor can implement themselves just as easily as they implemented the three-click cross-listing themselves.

* Click estimates are approximate depending on what course Settings screen the user was on when they began the first click.

[Renee_Carney]

Find more information about the feature mentioned in the 2017-03-20 Beat Notes in the Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-04-01) 

[GideonWilliams]

Restricting students to a Section would be even more effective if we could then assign content eg pages/modules to be visible just by that section?

Think this is a good idea then you know what to do... https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/5319-hiding-and-viewing-modules-for-individual-sections

[Renee_Carney]

The Radar idea stage has been removed from the Feature Idea Process.  You can read more about why in the blog post Adaptation: Feature Idea Process Changes.

This change will only impact the stage sort of this idea and will not change how it is voted on or how it is considered during prioritization activities.  This change will streamline the list of ideas 'open for voting', making it easier for you to see the true top voted ideas in one sort, here.