What Happens When An Instructor Deletes or Stops Using Their Account? What would happen to their courses and account?

[CallieAlreza]

Random question, what if an instructor deletes or stops using their account? What would happen to their courses and accounts? Is it like the Inactive Google Account manager?

 

[CallieAlreza]

Extra Question: Would the course be deleted and students notified? Could accounts be sold to other users?

[james_whalley · Accepted solution]

@CallieAlreza Courses in Canvas would continue being accessible to students whether the instructor's account is deleted or not. They would only lose access if there was a date limitation in the Settings of a course. As for selling accounts, I imagine that Instructure does not want accounts to be sold to new users. You could add new users as instructors to your existing courses though and then delete your account.

[CallieAlreza]

Would they still be able to turn in assignments?

[james_whalley]

I don't know why they wouldn't be able to submit assignments if the course is still open. Submissions are not dependent on there being someone to grade them. As an admin, I build sandboxes all the time for testing things without ever adding a Teacher enrollment.