Deleting Old Students and Courses

[holimoch]

As a Canvas Admin:

What's the most efficient way to conclude old courses lacking term dates? 

What's the most efficient way to remove/delete former students from the instance?

[melodyc_lam · Accepted solution]

@holimoch Welcome!

If the courses and students have SIS IDs then the easiest way is to prepare a SIS Import file to conclude courses and delete former students. There's some samples there for you to look at. 

Pro tip - run the SIS Export report for courses.csv then edit the file and upload it back.

If they don't have SIS IDs (more likely your courses than your students, I hope) then you'll need to run the Provisioning report and then use the API to conclude the courses.

Edit: just to show you the power of SIS imports, I ran a SIS import for 66k + courses this summer to conclude and put courses in an Archive subaccount. Making the file was very easy and uploading it for Canvas to process was easier. I have code examples for both situations if you need examples. Hope this helps!