I had the following unfortunate experience today. I wanted to better understand how to import and export grades. So I tried to use my sandbox course to create a dummy grade list. To get a grade list I need students in my course. I discovered that I can only add people who actually exist in my organization. I did not want to bother people from my organization so I decided to change my roll to student. As a consequence, I was no longer an admin and my sandbox was basically thrashed. This leads me to the following suggestions:
- Add dummy student(s) by default to the sandbox course. Alternatively, make it easier to add dummy students without having to contact other people. If I have to wait a day in order to add a dummy student to my course it would really slow me down.
- Make it harder to create orphan courses. A message like "Warning: this action will remove the last admin from the course" or something like that would be nice.
