Can uploading an SIS import in my Test Canvas environment affect anything data in production Canvas?

[ElenaB123]

In my production Canvas, I have a term and a course belonging to that term. I need to upload an SIS import for users and enrollments. I want to make sure the SIS import I upload does not affect any other parts of my production Canvas. I have a couple of questions: 

1. If I upload an SIS import in my test Canvas environment (..test.instructure.com), is it able to affect any of my production data? (if I upload a users.csv, will the new users I import even show in my production Canvas?)
2. If production Canvas, I upload a users.csv as a "full batch update" and I select the term my course is in (this is the only course in that term) does it have the ability to affect other users that have already been uploaded via SIS import who are not in that term?  For additional context, we have a sync that runs multiple times throughout the day that syncs our Users from Salesforce into Canvas using SIS imports in diffing mode - these users won't go through that sync, but I do need to add them in and I don't to accidentally delete other users

Thanks for any help anyone can offer!

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @ElenaB123 ...

I think I can help answer your first question...which the answer is "no".  I'm not sure if you've seen this document, but I wanted to point you to:

What is the Canvas test environment?

In particular, I think the first paragraph will answer your first question.

One thought I had was this...  if logged into your "test" environment and then created a new course shell in your term along with creating a new user...then enrolled that user in your course...  you could then sign out of your "test" environment and log in to your "production" environment.  You would not see that new course in your "production" environment that you created in "test".  You'd also not see the new user in "production".  The same would hold true with the SIS import (even if you were testing things out with one user and one course shell in your import files).

I'll leave your second question for others to answer...hopefully you'll get a response soon!