Managing Coursework Permissions
By default, only members of the Administrators and Faculty roles have permission to create assignments, grade them and so forth.
Tip
If you have created a custom role—for example, a teaching assistant role—you may want to give its members permission to work with assignments and so forth. You have a few options in this regard.
Within the Coursework feature, there are two permissions. Giving a role both these permissions essentially lets the role do everything in the feature except use the administrative functions accessed using the admin bar. To give a role more limited privileges, consider giving them just one of these permissions.
Note
These permissions are not intended to be used by students in the course section (enrolled students and non-roster students). If you try to give a Coursework permission to one of these students, the permission will not be honored.
The Content Management Access permission gives members the ability to:
Create, edit and delete assignments.
Create, edit and delete units and types.
View data about online tests using the Test Analysis function.
When a user has this privilege, his or her view of the feature includes three buttons in the upper left portion of the screen: Add an Assignment, Manage Units & Types and View the Gradebook.
Of these, the Add an Assignment and Manage Units & Types buttons work as they would for a faculty member. However, View the Gradebook is useful only if the user also has permission to use the Gradebook.
In the main view of the feature, this user will also be able to see edit icons for each assignment, and the Edit due dates link will be available.
Users who have this permission will not see the Recent submissions list. Also, this user’s view of the assignment overview will not list individual students, and this user will not be able to grade assignments or review a student’s work. However, the user will have access to several items in the More menu, including the ability to delete assignments.
The Grading Access permission gives members of a role the ability to:
Review completed assignments, grade questions and adjust the overall grade for an assignment.
Manage a student’s interaction with the assignment by granting a retake, closing the assignment, leave feedback and so forth.
View data about online tests using the Test Analysis function.
This user’s view of the feature will include two buttons at the upper left—Student List and View the Gradebook.
Of these, the Student List functions as it would for a faculty member. However, View the Gradebook is useful only if the user also has permission to use the Gradebook.
In the main view of the feature, this user will be able to see the Recent submissions list.
This user will also be able to click through an assignment and see the list of students, then click through to review each student’s work and modify the student’s grade.
Note that this user has full use of the controls on the Student Assignment Detail screen, which allow for granting retakes, entering a personalized due date, reopening the assignment, leaving comments and so forth.
Using the More menu on the Assignment Detail screen, this user will also be able to preview the test.
How To
Use this procedure to give a role a permission in an instance of the Coursework feature.
Make sure that you have also given the role permission to view the Coursework page from the Context Manager.
Note
Users who have Coursework permissions—but no other affiliation with the course—will not see the course section in their My Courses lists. These users should be instructed to add the pages they’ll need to access as favorites.
Navigate to the appropriate Coursework feature instance.
Click the wrench icon in the upper-right corner of the page.
The admin bar displays.
Click the Access link in the admin bar.
The system displays the Access page, which lists all the roles defined for this context as well as all the global roles. Roles that have access to the page are highlighted in green. Roles that do not have access to the page are shaded gray.
Locate the role that should be able to post items or administer the feature instance, and take one of the following steps:
If the role is highlighted in green, this means the role already has permission to view the page. Click the role to display a pop-up window that lists the permissions available in each of the features found on the page.
If the role is shaded gray, this means the role does not have access to view the page. You must first grant the role access to the page before you grant permissions. To do so, click the role and then click the. Now that the role can view the page, the screen refreshes to list the permissions available in each of the features found on the page. Click the Visible toggle button to change it to Hidden.
Under the list of permissions for the Coursework feature, grant the role one or both of the following permissions by clicking the toggle button next to each:
Content Management Access
Grading Access
The toggle button changes from Yes to No to indicate the permission has been granted to the role.