Canvas includes several user roles, each with different levels of access and permissions within a course. Understanding these roles can help you manage your course more effectively and ensure users have the appropriate capabilities for their responsibilities.

Teacher:

  • Analytics- view pages
  • Announcement- view
  • Assignments- grade submissions
  • Chat- participate in
  • Conversations- send messages to entire class to individual course members
  • Course Calendar- add/edit/delete
  • Courses- publish/ unpublish and add/edit/delete content
  • Discussions- create, moderate, post and view
  • Files- add/ delete/ edit
  • Grades- edit, select final grade for moderation, view all grades, release student grades and view audit trail.
  • Groups- add/ delete/ manage
  • Learning outcomes- add/ edit/ delete/ import
  • LTIs- manage
  • Outcome proficienty Calculations- add/edit
  • Pages- create/ delete/ update
  • People- add teachers, TAs, and students
  • Quizzes- moderate quiz and view the quiz statistics
  • Reports- mange
  • Rubrics- add/ edit/ delete
  • Speedgrader- edit grades and add comments in speedgrader
  • Student Collaborations- create
  • Submissions- view, annotate, and grade
  • Users- can add people, manage student in courses, view list view login IDs, and view primary email addresses
  • Web Conferences- create

TAs

  • Announcement- view
  • Assignments- grade submissions
  • Chat- participate in 
  • Content- view
  • Conversations- send messages to entire class to individual course members
  • Courses- add/edit/create content
  • Discussions- create, post and view
  • Grades- edit and view all grades
  • Groups- view student groups
  • Quizzes- moderate quiz and view the quiz statistics
  • Reports- mange
  • Speedgrader- edit grades and add comments in speedgrader
  • Student Collaborations- create
  • Submissions- view, annotate, and grade
  • Users/People- can view
  • Web Conferences- create

Students

  • Announcement- view
  • Assignments- submit files/ submissions
  • Chat- participate in
  • Conversations- send messages to entire class to individual course members
  • Discussions- create, post and view
  • Grades-view their own
  • Groups- participate in group created by instructor
  • Quizzes- take quizzes released by instructor
  • Student Collaborations- create
  • Users/People- view list
  • Web Conferences- create