Script for allowing users to remove themselves from courses?

dholton

Colorado State seems to have a script that allows faculty to remove themselves from unneeded courses: How to remove yourself from unneeded courses - Canvas Information and Resources - Colorado State University 

I contacted their support for more info but didn't get an answer.  Anyone have info on a script like this?  I'm currently in around 300 courses and growing and don't have permission to remove myself.  Others are in a similar boat.  The only docs I can find are for self-enroll courses, which provide an unenroll link.  I can remove others from courses, but not myself.  I made a Google sheet using the Canvas API to delete my enrollments but got a permission error.

Or is this something I should feature request?

unknown

Hi  @dholton ,

I will admit I have not seen such scripts in action, though have certainly heard of them.

If you have attempted to use the API to remove yourself and have received a permissions error, then it is likely any such tool (as a rule) would result in the same issue. It sounds like your admins have not given you permission to remove yourself. This may be due to the enrolment coming from an upstream system which is automatically integrated, or it may simply be by choice.

I have had a look at the Colorado State University link you have provided, and it sounds to me like this is a custom utility that CSU has developed to achieve this. Interestingly, this would have been my final suggestion, which is that your institution could develop such a tool to permit governed self-unenrolling from courses, without giving out permissions to all teachers systemwide.

In this case, I would contact your institution and see what their recommendation is for self-unenrolling.

Hope that helps!

Stuart

(quick extra thought, I have assumed you are using an institution provided system, or would this be on the Canvas Free for Teachers service?)