[ARCHIVED] Canvas Permissions suggestion

[hesspe]

It's been noted before that feature requests that are primarily of interest to administrators often don't collect many votes.  I submitted a feature request that's now up for voting, which obviously I think is worthwhile, and I'm trying to 'gin up some votes, but also to get feedback as to whether others would find it valuable.

The request is to be able to give someone (a student teaching assistant, usually)  the ability to grade student work in Canvas without giving them unfettered access to the grade book.  We like to, and feel that it's our responsibility to, keep grades as private as possible.

My request is here:

My sense of the response to the suggestion from Canvas has been along the lines of "why would you want to do that"?  It has gotten only one up vote so far.

Thanks for your attention.

[powellj]

Thank you Peter for bringing this to our attention! I posted a comment in the idea, but wanted to add a note here as well to hopefully encourage more votes in the idea:

In our case, it's not so much about FERPA/privacy, but more about division of responsibility. I created a custom role (based on the TA role) for the Librarians at the College. It has become common lately for the Librarian to create a specific research-based assignment in the course. It is our policy stance, and one which is fully supported by the instructors, that the Librarian role does not have access to the gradebook. If this feature were to be added, it would allow the instructors to provide the ability for the Librarian to grade the one assignment, without any risk to the full gradebook or other data.

[garth]

I like the idea ​

The scenario given by  @powellj ​ is also relevent in my environment.

Thank you for bringing this up.

Regarding your statement:

"It's been noted before that feature requests that are primarily of interest to administrators often don't collect many votes."

I agree : )