Send to Canvas a file with "wrong" enrollments that need to be deleted

[FatouThiam]

We have in Canvas courses that have no enrollments; is there a way to send a file with those "wrong" sections and have them deleted/removed from Canvas?

[mzimmerman · Accepted solution]

Hi @FatouThiam 

How were the courses created?

If they were created by importing a feed file using the SIS Import process, then you can send another feed file through with the "bad" courses having a status of "deleted", and they will be naked as deleted by the system.  See https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Basics-Guide/What-are-SIS-Imports/ta-p/47 

However, if the courses were manually created via the GUI, then you would not be able to use the SIS Imports process to delete them...at least not without doing some additional work to add an SIS ID setting to each of the courses.

[chriscas]

Totally agree with this.

One thing I wanted to add is that the "empty" course shells may be a result of crosslisting sections from that course to another one.  In that case, you may want to keep the empty shells around just in case someone de-crosslists a section, as that section would need to revert back to the original course.  If the original course is deleted when trying to do that, you may get an error or end up with a very weird and unexpected situation which might be hard to resolve.

-Chris