[ARCHIVED] Prevent users from copying a course?

[abunag]

We're having an issue of users (faculty) using the "copy course" button to copy their course, which then adds the course to the same subaccount and throws off our analytics.  Is there any way to remove that button without going into CSS?

[akkaufmann]

Hi Anthony,

Assuming the user in question has Admin permissions (only admins can create courses), you can create a new Admin role with "Manage ( add / edit / delete ) courses" permissions disabled.

If you have a question about creating new roles, please read this guide: How do I create account-level roles?

I will also mention this idea: " modifiedtitle="true" title="In Permissions, Separate Manage (add/edit/delete) courses into 3 permi...​, which is currently in the "Gathering Info" phase that proposes that the three permissions be separated. I mention this in case you want an Admin role that needs to edit courses, but not create a new courses.

Alex

[abunag]

Hi Alexander,

Thanks for taking the time to reply.  It seems this is more of an issue of us allowing teachers to create new courses, as Kona outlined.  If the Manage courses permission is separated, it would probably be best for us, so I'll pass that idea around to get people to vote on it.

[kona · Accepted solution]

 @abunag , the "Copy this Course" option doesn't show up for our faculty. I did some testing in our Canvas test environment and I was able to get the button to show up by checking the "teachers" box under the "Who Can Create New Courses" in Admin --> Settings. Thus, my guess is that if you have this box checked and were to uncheck it then faculty would no longer have this option.

[abunag]

That's unfortunate.  We'd like them to be able to keep creating their own courses to use as master copies (and in fact, need them to as we work on migrating from our previous LMS), but we just don't want them to copy existing "official" courses.

Thanks for helping to identify the cause though.

[kona]

We found it easier in the long run to just manually create sandboxes (new courses) for faculty as needed. Not idea, but for us better than letting faculty create courses willy-nilly.

[timothy_maw]

 @abunag ‌ did you find changing who can create courses as Kona showed worked for you? In our instance we do not give teachers the ability to create courses yet, the copy this course feature still shows up for them.