Student enrolment to multiple sections.

[LinHua]

Students in my course are enrolled to multiple sections (Section A and B). Section A is for their Tutorial group. Section B is for every member in the course which is automatically created by Canvas. After section enrolment, we downloaded the Course Roster file for our checking and noticed that the students enrolled to same section have their sections named slightly different in the file. 

Ex:

Student name              Sections

Student 1                       A and B

Student 2                      A and B

Student 3                      B and A

Student 4                      B and A

We enrolled students using csv file. I wonder whether this was the technical set-up of Canvas that made the sections name appear on Roster file in different order like above?

[PaulFynn · Accepted solution]

Hi @LinHua ,

This seems to be expected behaviour in Canvas, with multiple enrolments concatenated together in the Course Roster Report - not always convenient, and you may need to strip these out in an Excel spreadsheet or coded solution if you are wanting to do extensive work with large numbers of students.

Alternatovely you could run the Section API https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/sections.html but would need a way to prettify the JSON output.