How best to indicate a student has a cognitive medical profile to instructors?

[Doug9]

Is there way or what is the best way to indicate a student has a medical issue (for example, due to a concussion sports injury) such that only the Canvas instructor or course director role can see only a generic w/o medical details indication of a problem?

We are thinking of appending a caduceus character each affected student's name, but this would likely make it visible to everyone.

The goal is to indicate to faculty when entering grades in the Canvas gradebook students who have a medical issue.

We have automated our SIS Imports enrollment sync.   We'd like a way to indicate a student has some medical issue in our SIS Imports users.csv file so that Canvas would be updated automatically as our SIS Imports users/courses/sections/enrollment batch job updates Canvas from our in-house Student Information System each day.

Thank you

[Gabriel33 · Accepted solution]

Perhaps as a custom gradebook column? Note the example in the API docs, where it mentions a "nut allergy".

So seems appropriate: you can force it to be read-only, so that teachers can't edit it, and write different text.

I don't know if it shows up in the student's interface, though. There's a "hidden" option, that hides it from the gradebook, but it's not clear if it hides it for both the teacher and student, or just the student. Hopefully someone else can help with that, or you can test it.

[nuscitpkg]

You can use the Notes column in Grades, which is not visible to students.

[sendres]

I'd recommend against using Canvas for this purpose. It's not HIPAA compliant and is therefore unsuitable for storing protected health information.

[Doug9]

Thank you.  I'll raise the issue with my school's leadership.  No details are provided.  Only a fact of an issue affecting student performance is intended.