teachers managing sis data

[Lena_HLP]

Is there a way to give teacher accounts the permission to create SIS ID's for their courses?

I don't see that permission option in the "course roles" section in Permissions, only "SIS Data Read". The "Account Roles" only feature "Account Admin", "Outcome Service", and "Quizzes.Next Service".

I would like teachers to create SIS ID's for their courses so that I can more easily archive/clean up once the year is over. I know there is a script to assign SIS ID's to courses and users using PowerShell, however, I do not know how to do this. So instead of adding in an ID individually, I would like instructors to do so. Is this possible?

Thank you

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @Lena_HLP,

Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to let teachers do this.  The SIS_ID is generally used to help import info from an SIS or export to one.  I think the most common practice is to have courses be created by your SIS initially, that way the ID would be automatically populated.  It sounds like you're using a very different process at your school/institution right now though.  I'd probably suggest reviewing your procedures to see if you could create courses via your SIS, as that may be more of the ultimate solution here.

Some info about importing data from an SIS to create users, courses, etc can be found at: SIS Import Format Documentation - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation

Hope this helps a bit!

-Chris

[Lena_HLP]

Thank you for the response. Unfortunately we were having a lot of problems with the SIS import through our SIS so we had to stop it to alleviate the extra issues.