Guide to Course Team Roles#
To give team members access to Studio, and the instructor dashboard in the LMS you assign one of these course team roles to them.
Staff
Limited Staff
Admin
Course Data Researcher
You can assign these privileged roles when you work in either the LMS or Studio. The people who have these roles can work on your course in Studio and the LMS. For more information about assigning roles to team members in Studio, see Add Course Team Members.
You can also designate teams of people to beta test your course or to moderate and manage its discussions by assigning other roles in the LMS. Beta testers and discussion team members must be enrolled in your course, but they do not need to have the Staff or Admin role. For more information, see Manage Course Beta Testing and Assign discussion roles.
For more information about how to add course team members, see Add Course Team Members.
Administrative Team Roles#
To provide access to features on the instructor dashboard in the LMS, you can assign the Staff role or the Admin role to course team members.
Team members who have either of these roles can work on your course in Studio immediately, and can also use the LMS. For more information about assigning roles while you run your course, see Add Course Team Members.
You can also designate teams of people to beta test your course and to moderate and manage its discussions by assigning other LMS roles. The beta testers and discussion administrators must be enrolled in your course, but they do not need to have Staff or Admin access. For more information, see Manage Course Beta Testing and Assign discussion roles.
For more information about how to add course team members, see Add Course Team Members.
The Staff Role#
Course team members who have the Staff role can complete the following tasks.
View the course before the course start date.
Enroll and unenroll learners.
Access and modify grades for individual learners. For example, users with the Staff role can reset an individual learner’s attempt to answer a question.
See course HTML errors.
Send email messages to course participants.
Activate course certificates.
The Limited Staff Role#
Course team members who have the Limited Staff role can do all of the Staff tasks but without content editing permissions. This role has no access to Studio.
The Admin Role#
Course team members who have the Admin role can complete all the tasks that team members who have the Staff role can complete. In addition, they can complete the following tasks.
Access and modify grades for all learners in a course. For example, users with the Admin role can reset all learners’ attempts to answer a question.
Add team members to, and remove them from, the Staff role.
Add team members to, and remove them from, the Admin role.
Add and remove team members as beta testers.
Add team members to, and remove them from, the Discussion Admin or Discussion Moderator role.
Add enrolled learners to, and remove them from, the Community TA or Group Community TA role.
Note
To moderate course discussions, team members must explicitly be added to a discussion moderation role in addition to having the course team Staff or Admin role. For more information, see Assign discussion roles.
The Course Data Researcher Role#
Course data researchers can access the Data Download tab on the instructor dashboard.
Course data researchers can: