Users are given a role when enrolled in a course, but this role is not always the best role for that user to have in all parts of the course.
This is most often a problem when there's a need to reduce the access that teacher-type roles have within a course.
Example: Tutors should not have to see all assessments in a course if they only need to grade one of these assessments https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Admin-Discussion/Permission-limitations-on-custom-roles-based-on-the-Student...
Allow the ability to change the role that users are given in specific areas of a course.
For example, if sections are seen as the main way to control user access, some alternatives are:
1. Allow the ability to define a role that all users in a section are given, and allow sections to be applied more broadly, eg to modules
2. Allow the ability to change the role that indvidual users have within a section. For example, add students and a teacher to a section, but allow changing the teacher's role to a student role for just this section only.
An alternative method would be to allow selecting the role for individual users.
Sample application:
A course needs to be set up where tutors only see those assessments they are required to grade, rather than seeing all assessments in the course.
Option 1: Relevant tutors are added to a section in which all users are given a student role. An exception is added for tutors who shouldn't see the assignment by selecting them from the 'Assign to' field, then setting a distant Available From or Until date.
Option 2: An exception is added for tutors who shouldn't see the assignment by selecting them from the 'Assign to' field, setting a distant Available From or Until date, and then defining their role as 'Student'
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