Sections and Self-enroll: How to change the default section for self-enrollees

KateRichardson2

Context: I am assisting with management of a placement test administered in a "course" through Canvas. Students self-enroll. 

We are using sections to distinguish between placement test takers in different years. Currently, new students who self-enroll are automatically enrolled into the 2024-2025 section, when they should be enrolling into the 2025-2026 section. 

How may I adjust the default section for new self-enrollees? 

NoahBoswell

Hi @KateRichardson2 !

I was in the same exact boat as you recently.

Unfortunately... there isn't a direct way to change the default section for enrollees, at least without there being a student information system set-up and configured to do so. I ended up having to make a new course for those users, because otherwise I would've had hundreds of students to go through. You are able to choose the section the students are added to if you manually add the students to the course, but student's don't have that option and are added to the section that was originally created with the course.

I'm sorry this isn't the news you were hoping for. However, I think this would be worth submitting as a feature idea!

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructure-Community-Guide/How-do-I-create-a-new-idea-in-the-Instructure-Community/ta-p/2986

 

Best,
Noah