Limit Users Ability to Interact With only Their own Section - Canvas

FERPA Considerations with combined or cross-listed courses in Canvas

When cross-listing multiple sections into one Canvas course students can view information about the students from the cross-listed sections. This creates a FERPA problem. Course combinations that come in cross-listed automatically from TitanWeb do not create a FERPA concern. If courses are going to be combined out of convenience (rather than a pedagogical reason) you must:

Limit Users ability to interact only with their section

1. Select the "People" tool (1) in your course navigation

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2. Click on the name of the student (2) to open a side panel. 

3. Click on the students name again to get to their detail page (3) 

4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and look under Memberships. 

5. On the Privileges section, click on limit this user to only see fellow section users.

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