[Account Settings] Add Pronunciation UI Lock Setting

[msoupcoff]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS

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Problem statement:

In the 18 June 2024 deploy, admins could enable users to add a name pronunciation to their Canvas profile. Some schools may already have their users entering their pronunciation values in a central school directory so that the data can then be shared with external platforms. It seems likely schools prefer users entering this data in their central school directory and the data is shared outwards vs making users go to each external platform and re-enter data. Currently, admins are able to enable the pronunciation field appearing on users' profiles but they are not able to disable users from being able to enter anything or to restrict the field from being populated from a central school directory via API or alternative method.

Proposed solution:

In Admin > Settings > Personal Profile Settings, as a sub-setting of 'Enable name pronunciation', create new setting for 'Allow users to change their pronunciation in Canvas'. This would be the equivalent of what is currently available for pronouns.

User role(s):

admin

[KristinL]

  Comments from Instructure

This feature is available in Beta. For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-11-06) 

How do I access the Canvas beta environment as an instructor?

[KristinL]

Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-11-06)