TA Roles & Accessiblity

[DRISTANGROUPE]

Hi everyone, 

I'm working on a canvas page that I'm using as base communication for my group, and I was just recent approved the page and have TA access. After taking hours of searching through what I can and can't do, I still don't see any definite list of things I have the ability to do within the TA role. Does anyone know what gets restricted when you are a TA? Also is there a way for my teacher to grant me access to those boundaries without changing my role to teacher mode?    

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @DRISTANGROUPE,

You probably won't find much info on something like that because school/institution Canvas teams can customize the TA permissions pretty widely.  For my institution, a full TA role has basically the same permissions as a Teacher minus the ability to publish the course.  We have other TA roles with much more restricted permissions.  You'll need to reach out to your local team usually in the eLearning / IT / Digital Education areas) to see if they can give you more information on the permissions they have set up for your role.  Similarly, enrollment processes and rules vary by school/institution, so they could also let you know if your teacher could switch you to a different role, if they'd need to do that, or is TA would be the only possible role for you.

I hope this answer helps.  I know it's not exact, but it's the most accurate thing we can really say from the general perspective we all have here in the community.

-Chris

[DRISTANGROUPE]

I was starting to see that when it comes to roles, every community varies. I'll go ask them and see what they know, Thank you for that, 

-Dristan 

[dbrace]

Hi @DRISTANGROUPE,

I know that @chriscas summarized for you but I also wanted to share a resource with you that is found in the Canvas Community.  If you check out Canvas Course Role Permissions - Instructure Community - 387080 you will see what the default permissions are for each default role in Canvas.

-Doug

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi there, @DRISTANGROUPE ...

In addition to the information that you got from @chriscas and @dbrace, I thought I'd provide you with this resource:

• What user roles and permissions are available in C... - Instructure Community - 102

Hopefully you'll find some useful information here about the different roles.