Sub Account Act As

[johnson_ijeoma]

Currently, the "act as" feature is limited to Canvas Admin. Is there a way for the feature to be given to the subaccount admin? We want to provide building leaders the ability to ac as teachers/students in their spaces without having to provide complete access to the entire county. 

I am a Canvas District Administrator

[nwilson7 · Accepted solution]

@johnson_ijeoma There is a workaround that works pretty well.  Create a role at your root account that only has the act as permission. You then also assign your sub-account admins the act as permission as well as the sub-account role you created.  We do this and so far have not had any issues.

Hope this helps!

Nick

[haltcatchfire]

Hi! I'm trying to implement this workaround. How do you assign your subaccount admins the act as permission without granting them the new act as role at the root? We would like them to only be able to act as users in their subaccount.

[nwilson7]

@haltcatchfire You do it at the Root but they can only act as people that have courses in the sub-account they are in.  For example, one of our online programs comes with some additional support and those support agents have the "Act as' role at the root but can only act as the students that are part of that program since they have their own sub-account.  

I believe it works this way because they have no other way to find the other people to get to the act as buttons.

-Nick