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How to allow teachers to Start a Course on their dashboard?

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PittWu
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As Canvas admin, I've set up the permission at root account level for teachers to be able to add their own courses, however, staff who have a teacher role on Canvas simply could NOT Start a Course themselves.

They do not have a Start a Course option sitting on the right-hand side on their dashboard besides Marks

Is this some of the default settings on Canvas? How does an admin do to enable this feature for teachers?

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Hi @PittWu,

The button on the dashboard is not controlled by a permission as far as I know, rather it's at the bottom of your root account settings page (screenshot included)

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You'll want to put a checkmark next to Teachers there, then save.  Once you do that, anyone with a teacher role in any course in your Canvas instance should see the button to start a new course on their dashboard.

I hope this helps!

-Chris

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