OVERVIEW
Target audience: Instructors
Each Role in myCourses allows users a specific set of Permissions. Instructors can add and assign the following roles in myCourses:
- Guest - Read Only
- Guest - Read / Write
- Demo Student
- Librarian
- Teaching Assistant (TA) - All types
- Course Designer
The chart below shows what tools and/or features a participant (user) can access in your course if you assign them a specific role.
| Feature / Tool | Guest - Read Only | Guest- Read/Write |
Student * /
Demo Student | Librarian | TA - Default | TA - Designer | TA - Assessment | TA - Full Permissions / Course Designer / Instructor */ Course Coordinator * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access Course after End Date | ||||||||
| Announcements (add, manage) | ||||||||
| Assignments (create, manage) | ||||||||
| Assignments (leave feedback) | ||||||||
| Assignments (submit) | ||||||||
| Attendance | ||||||||
| Calendar (add events) | ||||||||
| Chat (create, manage) | ||||||||
| Classlist (add users, change roles) | ||||||||
| Content (create, manage) | ||||||||
| Content (view) | ||||||||
| Copy Components | ||||||||
| Course Info (change start & end dates, language) | ||||||||
| Discussions (assess topics) | ||||||||
| Discussions (create forums & topics) | ||||||||
| Discussions (compose message) | ||||||||
| Discussions (view) | ||||||||
| FAQ (create, manage) | ||||||||
| Glossary (create, manage) | ||||||||
| Grades (manage, enter) | ||||||||
| Groups (create, manage) | ||||||||
| Homepages / Widgets (create, manage) | ||||||||
| Links (create, manage) | ||||||||
| Lockers (view all Group Lockers) | ||||||||
| Manage Dates | ||||||||
| Manage Files | ||||||||
| Navbars (change, add links) | ||||||||
| Question Library | ||||||||
| Quizzes, Surveys, Self-Assessments (create, manage) | ||||||||
| Quizzes (grade) | ||||||||
| Quizzes (take quizzes) | ||||||||
| Role Switch (Student view) | ||||||||
| Rubrics (create, manage) | ||||||||
| Surveys (take surveys) | ||||||||
| User Progress (view for all students) | ||||||||
| Zoom (schedule & host meetings) |
* NOTE:
Roles of Student, Instructor and Course Coordinator, shown with an asterisk (*) above, are assigned by Banner/Minerva and cannot be changed.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:
- Adding participants and changing roles in myCourse in the Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base.
- Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base