Recover an assignment for a deleted student

[ross_gailer]

I have received a request to recover an assignment for a deleted student. The course still exists, though it is closed off.

I have recovered the student account at the request of our admin team though not surprisingly this did not recover any enrolments and did not allow the team to access the assignment in question. I was thinking of the API but I am not sure how to specify the student that I want the assignment for.

Any suggestions?

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @ross_gailer,

For just a quick one-off thing you can do either of the following:

1. Manually enroll the student back in the course
   • Change the course term temporarily to "default term"
   • Add the student to the course from the people page
   • Act as the student and accept the enrollment invite
   • Get the data that is needed
   • Remove the student
   • Change the course term back to the appropriate one.
2. Have a root account admin enroll the student again via an SIS enrollment csv.
   • Have a root account admin create and upload the file (they will hopefully know the values to use for each required column)
   • Get the data needed
   • Have the root admin use a CSV file to delete that student enrollment again.

Hope this helps a bit!  If you are in fact the root admin but don't know how to do the CSV file, let us know or just use the first option (it's more steps, but it's honestly not hard at all).

-Chris