Copy this course runs into a page error for teachers if "Allow creation only in the Manually Created Courses sub-accounts" is enabled

Issue Documented: 2025-08-27
Canvas

This behavior has been resolved and deployed to the production environment as of 10/8/25.

Description

When the “Allow creation only in the Manually Created Courses sub-accounts” is enabled on the account level, teachers run into a page error when attempting to use the Copy this course feature for any course that is outside of the Manually Created Courses sub-account.

Expected Behavior

Teacher should be able to use the Copy this course feature.

In case this is expected behaviour with the “Allow creation only in the Manually Created Courses sub-accounts” setting, the Copy this course button should not appear for teachers.

Workaround

No workaround exists at this time.

Steps to Reproduce

Prerequisite: Have a teacher that is enrolled in a root-account course, in the root account settings, enable Teachers to be able create courses and ‘Allow creation only in the Manually Created Courses sub-accounts’ selected.

  1. As the teacher access Settings in the course.

  2. Select Copy this course.

  3. Click on Create Course.

  4. Observe that the process fails with “Something went wrong during copy course operation. Reload the page and try again.”

Additional Info

RCX-3762

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