In Oncourse CL, what are the participant roles, and how do I find out what my role is?

The following roles are available:

Course sites

• Instructor: Instructors can create, delete, and read anything on the site. They can also manage users and groups, publish or unpublish the site, and change the global access of the site.
  
  
• Assistant: The assistant may access the site to help with configuration, settings, and loading resources. The assistant has broad access to the site.
  
  
• TA/AI Teaching Assistant: Teaching assistants can read, add, and revise most content in their sections.

  Note: This role lets the site owner limit Gradebook privileges for the TA/AI.

• Student: Students are automatically granted student permissions in course sites when they register for a course. The student role allows posting of discussion replies and chat messages, and managing or uploading files in a student's Drop Box. Elsewhere in the site, a student can read content but cannot create Resources, Discussion categories, Announcements, or Calendar items.
  
  
• Visitor: This role is limited to posting to discussion and chat and observing other parts of the site. A visitor does not see the unpublished site and cannot view grades.
  
  
• Observer: The observer cannot add content or participate actively, but can read content. An observer cannot make any changes, additions, or posts, cannot see the unpublished site, and cannot view grades.

Project sites

• Owner: The project owner has full permissions throughout the site, including publishing the site and setting its global access.
  
  
• Assistant: The assistant may access the site to help with configuration, settings, and loading resources. The assistant has broad access to the site.
  
  
• Member: Members can create resources and announcements, schedule events, create discussion categories and topics, and email the site. Members cannot modify the site and cannot see unpublished items
  
  
• Candidate: This role is used in a project site supporting a dissertation committee. The candidate will not have access to the email archive and mailing list functions, so that the committee may correspond separately about the dissertation.
  
  
• Observer: As in a course site, the observer cannot add content or participate actively, but can read content. An observer cannot make any changes, additions, or posts, and cannot see the unpublished site.

ePortfolio sites

The descriptions below characterize the default permissions for each role in ePortfolio sites. Permissions, however, are tool specific. The site coordinator can add or remove permissions for any role in any tool.

• Coordinator: The coordinator has full permissions throughout the site, including publishing the site and setting its global access.
  
  
• Assistant: The assistant may access the site to help with configuration, settings, and loading resources. The assistant has broad access to the site.
  
  
• Participant: A participant has permission to use specific features of the following tools: Matrices, Wizards, Presentations, Layouts, and Styles.
  
  
• Evaluator: An evaluator has permission to evaluate content submitted in a wizard or matrix.
  
  
• Observer: An observer has permission to review content submitted in a matrix or wizard.

Determining your role

Users at campuses other than IUB

To find out your role, check the roster, which will list participants by role. To see the roster, follow the directions in Viewing your roster.

Users at IUB only

Due to certain installation requirements, members of worksites at IUB will not be able to view other members' profiles. Therefore, the only way to determine your role is below:

1. From My Workspace, click Worksite Setup.
   
   
2. You will see a list of the sites to which you belong.
   
   
   • If a checkbox is next to the name of the site, you may check the box and click Edit. On this screen, you will see a list of the site's members. Next to the members' names, you will see a drop-down menu that shows the role.
     
     
   • If no checkbox is next to the name of the site, your role is limited to merely accessing and participating in the site; you do not have full permissions. While you are a member of that site, you cannot change your role or that of others.

Also see:

• In Oncourse CL, how do I change the permissions for a tool in a course or a project site?
• Using Oncourse CL, how do I change roles for participants?