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Comparison chart: Canvas roles and permissions

This chart demonstrates what permissions are available to various roles in Canvas courses.

Role descriptions are provided in the parent page: People in your Canvas course: Roles and permissions.

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Course roles

Course and account permissions
Manage (add/edit/delete) events on the course calendar
Add/remove other teachers, course designers or TAs to/from the course
Add/remove students to/from the course
Change course state
Create/edit rubrics
Create student collaborations
Create web conferences
Edit grades
Manage (add/edit/delete) assignments and quizzes
Manage (add/edit/delete) course files
Manage (add/edit/delete) course sections
Manage (add/edit/delete) groups
Manage alerts
Manage Faculty journal entries
Manage learning outcomes
Manage wikis
Moderate discussions
Moderate marks
Post to discussions
Read SIS data
See a list of users
Send messages to individuals
Send messages to the entire class
View all grades
View all student submissions and make comments on them
View analytics pages
View/link to question banks
View announcements
View discussions
View the group pages of all groups
View usage reports for the course
Student
✓
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Teaching assistant
✓
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Teaching support
✓
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Teacher
✓
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Course access coordinator
✓
*
✓
Course director
✓
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Course designer
✓
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✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
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Observer
✓
✓

* Course access coordinators can only add students to manually created courses. For credit-bearing courses, students need to enrol through Student Services Online.

System roles

Please note: Course Access Authoriser is not a ‘role’ in canvas. Rather, course access authorisers are a Group Services team who are nominated by their faculty to approve or provide bulk access—via the Staff Access Upload Tool—for people in Canvas courses. View the list of  for your area.

Permission
Manage 'observer' role for users
Read SIS data
View statistics
View the list of courses
View course change logs
View grade change logs
View notifications
Manage (add/edit/delete) events on the course calendar
Add/remove other teachers, course designers or TAs to/from the course
Change course state
Create/edit rubrics
Create student collaborations
Create web conferences
Edit grades
Manage (add/edit/delete) all course content
Manage faculty journal entries
Manage learning outcomes
Manage wikis
Moderate discussions
Moderate marks
Post to discussions
See a list of users
Send messages to individuals
Send messages to the entire class
View all grades
View all student submissions and make comments on them
View analytics pages
View/link to question banks
View course content
View discussions
View the answer matrix in quiz submission logs
View the group pages of all groups
View usage reports for the course
Faculty admin
✓
✓
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✓
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Reviewer
✓
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Monitor
✓
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Support

Check out our learning technology support page to find out what options are available for Canvas.

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