Managing Account Roles (when they're also a student)

[jsstorey]

"Admins who are given student roles in a course may still be able to view admin features. To avoid
permission conflicts, admins should create a separate account."

How does you institution manage creating separate accounts for employees who are also students? We  use Colleague and are being told that users cannot have separate accounts with the same SIS ID, which does make sense. 

We just added 220+ advisors, with account level roles, into Canvas at the root account level in order for them to have an advisor dashboard with Dropout Detective, our student success and retention tool. The account level role has only one permission, Users- View List. Some of these advisors are also students and now have access to view unpublished content in their courses (as a student). 

I'd love to hear what you are doing to see if it could be a potential solution for us!

[jcameronCBU2]

Hi, did you ever land on a solution to this? We are new to Canvas and I was really hoping to be able to drop the practice of having multiple accounts for users that we currently have in Blackboard Learn.

I'd appreciate any insights you can give.

Thank you!

[NoahBoswell]

Hi @jcameronCBU2 ,

Do you have open registration enabled under authentication for the Canvas provider? I wonder if they could sign up using their work email and create their own password and use that as a student account (if they currently use google or another provider to sign in that isn't canvas directly). As long as you don't merge the two accounts together, you should be fine.

OR, if you do use the Canvas login (or not, I don't think it matters), they could register with their email and add +student to it (i.e. james@school.edu would look like james+student@school.edu). That way it would still work as a valid email, but it would work as a different account.

Does this make sense? Let me know! I hope this helps a bit.