Bulk Delete Contacts/Items

[ZachHubert]

For faculty, especially for a larger organization, it can be tedious to delete accounts of people who are no longer using Canvas/Infrastructure or removing unnecessary spam accounts. I am currently considered an Instructor on this site and am currently in charge of deleting spam accounts from Canvas for the non-profit organization I am currently working for. As of Dec. 20th 2021, I have deleted dozens, if not hundreds of these spam accounts from our pages, and have had to tediously deleted them one account at a time out of monotony. I would like to suggest adding in an option to bulk select contacts to delete, with the additional option to select specific items in the page to include amongst the page to delete or not, and then delete them in full. This would be a great time saver for anyone who would be deleting not only spam accounts, but also attempting to bulk delete items across Canvas as a whole.

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[Stef_retired]

Thanks for sharing this request, @ZachHubert . Have you tried using the Accounts API, specifically the bulk delete method through REST API as described in Accounts - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation?

[Renee_Carney]

Greetings @ZachHubert, were you able to get a chance to review Stefanie's suggestion? Please let us know by February 24th or we will need to archive it to help the Community Team focus on current Ideas. If you need more time, that's okay too! Providing an update before that time would be helpful and appreciated.