Oncourse Roster: Overview

What it does

The Roster tool displays the number of site participants along with their names, photos, and profiles.

Key concepts

Changing views: To see only members of specific groups or sections, use the View drop-down list. (This drop-down list will be visible only if groups or sections exist.)

Viewing photos: To view personalized photos that participants of your site have uploaded, at the top of the Roster page, click Pictures. On the Pictures page, instructors can toggle between personalized photos and official ID photos.

Viewing profiles: To view someone's profile, click the person's name.

Things to consider

• The Roster tool does not allow you to add or remove participants from your site. To do this, you must use Site Setup. See Adding, editing, or removing participants.
  
  
• The roster draws profile information and photographs from the original Profile tool, not from Profile 2 Beta. See Relationship between Profile, Profile 2 Beta, and Roster.
  
  
• If you're a student who has registered for a class, your name should appear along with the names of your classmates. If you don't see your name, see Changing your privacy status or Why you may not appear in the roster of a class for which you're registered.

  Note: Students at Indiana University Bloomington cannot see their classmates by default, due to a decision by the IUB Office of the Registrar. Students at other IU campuses can see their classmates, except for those who have invoked their FERPA rights; those names will be hidden.

  Note: For newly combined course sections in Oncourse, the initial privacy status for instructors and all students is brought forward from the original course section. If the initial privacy status is set to hidden, instructors will be able to see their students, but students will not see their instructors or other students. See Changing your privacy status.

• If you don't see the Roster tool listed in your site's menubar, the site owner may have chosen not to use it. Site owners can add the Roster tool using Site Setup. For instructions, see Adding, removing, hiding, or reordering tools.

• Note: Due to FERPA restrictions, AIs/TAs are only able to see student names and grades for people in their own sections or groups. If your AI/TA needs to be able to see everyone in the class, create a group including everyone.

Help documentation

For help documentation about the Roster tool, see Roster.

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