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This will be a welcome feature.
Will there then be a way in the Admin interface (People Search?) to search for, and receive a list of, currently Suspended Accounts?
I don't think that is planned at the moment. It'd be a great feature idea to submit so product knows it's important to you!
Thanks,
Erin
Based on a student's behavior, our faculty can summarily remove them from class for the day of removal and the next class meeting. The law that allows this was of course written without the online classroom in mind, and my college has struggled with how to handle this in our online classes. A more surgical application of the ability to suspend a user would make it easier for faculty at California's public institutions of higher ed to take our statutory role in supporting a safe learning environment.
Will the ability to suspend a user be something that can be given to the Instructor role and empower them to suspend access to a Canvas course? To support this, I created an idea: Allow an instructor to suspend student users from a Canvas course
Can I get clarification on this statement in the deploy notes? "The user will not be able to access Canvas using any login method from any previously authorized tool, such as a mobile device. "
The issue we've run into with the app is that you're not logged out of the app, so even with a suspended district login, we had students who remained logged in to the app and were able to use reply to existing Canvas Inbox messages. Will the new "suspended" state solve that issue and force log-out from the app and any open browser sessions?
Sorry that this is slightly off topic, but I was reviewing the SIS Import Documentation page to generate a test file for the above status change and noticed a parameter called declared_user_type. Is this also new? I've never noticed this in the documentation before and couldn't locate it in the past 3 years of API Change Logs. I also can't find any location where this data is visible once passed through the csv file. I checked the API documentation, user profile screens, the user provisioning report, Canvas Data...
Agree that this is a potentially useful feature, thanks for adding it. Is there a permission connected to this feature? We'd like to keep it closely guarded so we don't have admins accidentally suspending users. Is the permission for this connected to another permission (if so, which one)?
This is useful, but the placement is unfortunate since it has moved the Act As User button. If it could be moved down between Merge and Delete user, that might be a more functional placement. So many of us move our mouse to the exact location of the Act As User button out of habit, and we are worried about accidentally suspending someone.
