Bulk Delete Enrollments From a Section (with no SIS ID)

Hi all,

I understand that you cannot delete a section if there are enrollments. But if a course has a section that was added in Canvas directly (no SIS ID) and we wanted that section removed, yet that section has multiple enrollments, is there not a way to delete enrollments in bulk vs. one at a time?

Matt

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bneporadny

Matt,

From what I know there is no way to delete bulk enrollments via the Canvas interface.

On thing you can try is to go into the section and give it a SIS ID manually and by doing so would allow you to remove the enrollments in bulk.

To add a section SIS ID manually click on Setting--> Sections --> Click on the section and on the right hand side of the page you should see "Edit Section" once in the screen you should see SIS ID with a blank text box beside it. You can type in the SIS ID you would like to use.

Brian

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Matt --

I realize that you already posted an answer, but i wanted to ask why you're needing to add a SIS ID in the first place? You shouldn't need to set a SIS ID in order to retrieve any enrollments from a section.

When dealing with Canvas via the API, you can use either the canvas internal ID to specify which object you're working with... or you can use the SIS ID that you've set yourself.

For example, this is the endpoint when getting a section:

Using the internal Canvas-assigned ID:

$endpoint = $canvasUrl . '/api/v1/sections/' . $id;

Using the SIS SECTION ID assigned by us:

$endpoint = $canvasUrl. '/api/v1/sections/sis_section_id:' . $id;

So, you should be able to eliminate the first step where you're assigning a SIS ID. Just grab the enrollments from the section directly, and then do your operations like before.

(Unless im missing a reason for why you need a SIS ID in the first place, then ignore this whole reply 🙂 )

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