What we're doing:
Adding support for section-level roles that will better support Teaching Assistants and other types of course specific roles outside of the Course Admins and Course Members. We will be adding certain default roles to courses, such as:
Role Name |
May be great for... |
Edit Grades / Edit Materials |
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Edit Grades / View Materials |
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View Grades / Edit Materials |
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View Grades / View Materials |
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No Grades / Edit Materials |
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No Grades / View Materials |
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This will allow system or course administrators to grant section-specific permissions to a course admin enrolled in a course. Users still only have one organization-level role, but when users have a section override role, the permissions for the override role take precedent while the user works in that section.
Why we think you'll like it:
This change will make it easier to give the same user different permissions in different courses, rather than taking a blanket approach at the system level. For example, a student can be enrolled as a Course Member in classes they are taking, and serve as a Teaching Assistant with some admin abilities in other courses, all from the same Schoology account.