Roles in Canvas

Role in Canvas

Instructors of Record listed in Banner are automatically assigned the Teacher role. Teachers may assign the TA role to authorized persons. Undergraduates may NOT be enrolled as TAs in any course.

The Designer role may be assigned to support personnel or GTAs helping to construct the course by adding materials, etc.

The Observer role is intended to facilitate Teachers sharing their course design and information with other teachers or with administrators.

Anyone assigned to any of these roles must be an AU employee or student. Use ONLY the AU Username to assign persons to any of these roles.

In addition to seeing all course content, each role in Canvas allows users some additional abilities:

Ability in Canvas	Teacher	TA	Librarian	Designer	Observer
Add, edit and delete events on the course calendar	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Add/remove other teachers, course designers or TAs to the course	Yes	No	No	No	No
Add/remove students for the course	No	No	No	No	No
Change course state	Yes	No	No	No	No
Create student collaborations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Create web conferences	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Edit grades (includes assessing rubrics)	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Manage (add / edit / delete) assignments and quizzes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Manage (add / edit / delete) course files	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Manage (create / edit / delete) course sections	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Manage (create / edit / delete) groups	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Manage alerts	Yes	No	No	No	No
Manage all other course content	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Manage faculty journal entries	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Manage learning outcomes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Manage wiki (add / edit / delete pages)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Moderate discussions ( delete / edit other’s posts, lock topics)	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Post to discussions	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
See the list of users	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Send messages to course members	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
View all grades	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
View all students’ submissions and make comments on them	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
View and link to question banks	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
View discussions	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
View the group pages of all student groups	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
View usage reports for the course	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No

Last modified: September 13, 2017