Teachers who are Students

[hburgiel]

Canvas is so easy to use and adaptable, we've started using it beyond the classroom.  It's now standard practice to use it for student orientations, faculty meeting minutes, and HR trainings.

I wanted a focus question on a quiz in an HR training site, so proudly created a New Quiz.  Big mistake!  With every single employee -- including the instructional designers -- enrolled as students, nobody can grade or moderate this quiz.  Even if they have a Teacher or Admin role.

We realize that this is an edge case, but we think it will come up more frequently as schools grow more comfortable with Canvas.  Our current workaround of "create a user who isn't a Student and use that account to grade" is problematic for both security and workflow.

Perhaps Students should be able to grade quizzes, if they are also Teachers.

[nwilson7]

@hburgiel Canvas roles are course based so it is only looking at the role they have in that course.  If you want someone to have the Teacher permissions in the HR training site, then they need to have that role in the course.  We do LOTS of this where Teachers are students in certain courses and have not had any issues with multiple roles since it is course specific.

Hope this helps!

-Nick

[hburgiel]

Thank you Nick!

My experience has been if you are enrolled as both a Teacher and a Student, you have Student permissions relative to New Quizzes and Teacher permissions relative to Classic Quizzes.  Knowing that, we can now request that a small handful of Teachers are excluded from the automated Student enrollment process.  But it was an unpleasant discovery in the moment!

Heidi