Creating a secondary user account so Canvas admins can take a course

[debbie_ellis]

What do you do about users with Canvas admin rights who want to take a course? Obviously, with admin rights they can't take the course as a regular student would, and they can see things they shouldn't see as a student.

I understand that the typical solution is to assign the person a second user account, but the people who would have to implement that would like to know the process other schools use to do this. This is not my area of expertise, but it seems that adding a secondary user account could be a little complicated.

[mzimmerman]

Hi @debbie_ellis 

We do create a second user account, specifically labeled as "Admin", and set that account up to use different authentication than the non-admin account.