Admin seeking suggestion: How can faculty create test Student account, but not create multiple accounts?

[StephenPerez]

New Canvas Admin coming from Blackboard.  In Blackboard, faculty had the ability to create a user_s account that was auto-added into the student role via a 3rd party Building Block.  They could also manage their passwords.

In a perfect world, we'd like this exact capability

• manage their own password
• auto-enrolled into their course
• separate _s login

But I'm all ears for anything similar.  We do not want the faculty to use the +People, as they could invite other faculty who do not yet have Canvas accounts and we need legitimate faculty to be authenticated through SAML.  We also don't want them to +People for auditors.  Preferably, they only need to create a single test student account for themselves.

Note: Student view is ok, but turns out faculty want more of a real student view to help with screenshots and even LTI testing.

[Ron_Bowman]

@StephenPerez -

I am an instructor not an admin.  I completely agree with your instructors that an actual student account is preferable to student view.  I have 2 dummy student accounts that were created for me when we were using Angel.  I have no idea what they did or where the accounts reside.  Furthermore, I am not going to ask about it because I have a feeling my admins will take them away.

My answer (based on what I have) is that you would have to create accounts for your instructors.  These accounts for me or in a different area because I have to go to a different login page to actually log into them.  So I am not sure exactly what has been done.  Hopefully this will give you some idea of what to do.

If I happen to find out what has been done here, I will let you know.

Ron

[StephenPerez]

Thanks for the info, and yes, possibly sounds like the Admins forgot about them.  If a different URL is used, sounds like they are local/internal accounts.  My research keeps pointing to these results as well, local accounts for all faculty, but that'll be difficult to manage as an Admin.  Thanks again, I'll continue to research.