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Much appreciate the added granularity here!From my testing, it appears "Courses - Delete" also affects the reset button. Can anyone else confirm or deny that in their instance (we have custom JS installed and I want to make sure it's not interfering with my testing). I hope this is actually how the permissions work, since reseting a course is essentially a delete and recreate at the same time, but always good to confirm.
Also one nitpicking comment is that for consistency with other permissions and sorting it seems like the permission group should be "Courses - Manage" instead of "Manage Courses".
-Chris
This seems to have broken the reset button for instructors - it is only available for admins now.
Yes, I seem to have lost the ability to reset course content when acting as an instructor too in beta. This is with the following permissions at course level. I assume it is related to this new update as I can access the reset course content button when acting as an instructor in production.
Does anyone have a link handy where what these permissions actually control is explained for Course Roles? There is no "What it Does" explanation in Beta as of yet, and I'm not finding this documented anywhere. Very excited at the possibility we could be able to lock down the "Reset Course Content" button. Thanks!
I have a question. Am I the only one that thinks that "Delete this Course" and "Reset Course Content" should be two separate permissions?
At my institution, we use JavaScript code to hide/disable various things in the "Settings" area of the course if they are using a role based on the "teacher" role. For example, we hide/disable the "Delete this Course" and "Conclude this Course" buttons but show/allow the "Reset Course Content" button.
Any other thoughts on this?
Hi there, where is the best spot to stay updated on whether 'delete this course' and 'reset course content' button will be separated? Prior to June release, is it possible to find out what permission did manage reset course content functionality? I never did manage to get the information out of Canvas Support, but perhaps I didn't word my query well enough.
The Reset permission has been separated per the Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-07-07) modified today.
Thanks,
Erin
Previously, we had been told by Instructure Support that the presence/absence Reset button couldn't be controlled by any permissions and it was just an inherent thing based on the base Canvas Role i.e. Teacher and Designer roles had the Reset button and the TA role did not. Now that there is an explicit permission for course reset, we were excited to add the button to a custom role based on the TA role and remove the button from the base Designer role. We were not able to do this however - we enabled the permission for our custom role based on TA and the Reset button never showed up. When we reached out to Instructure Support, we were told that TA-based roles will never have the button regardless of whether we've enabled this permission.
This seems like an oversight and that we should be able to enable/disable the permission to control the presence/absence of the Reset button. If this is 'how it is supposed to be' per Instructure, can it be called out in the Release Notes and have these permissions not available to be adjusted for specific roles, or better, I would love to hear back that it was indeed an oversight and can be fixed so we can enable/disable the button for all roles as we need.
