Stop teachers from adding students to sections with a SIS ID

[tobe_baeyens]

Hey,

We populate sections with a SIS ID through our API. Teachers are allowed to add students to other sections, but we want to stop them from making changes in the automatically created sections in our official courses. Is it possible to achieve this?

[abunag]

The way we've done this is via the subaccounts.  All manually-created courses appear in the manually created subaccount, and all SIS-generated courses appear in their department-specific subaccount.  Then we have the global permissions set for Teachers to not have permission to add/remove students (so they're not changing info sent by SIS), and in the manually-created subaccount, we give them that permission.  It's not perfect, because if they're smart about it, they can crosslist sections into courses in other subaccounts to get around this restriction, but it works for nearly all situations.

[Robbie_Grant]

 @tobe_baeyens ,

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Robbie