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.
| Course and account permissions | Student | TA | Teacher support | Teacher | Course access coordinator | Course Director | Course designer | Observer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
* 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 course access authorisers for your area.
| Permission | Faculty admin | Reviewer | Monitor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Page updated: 27/11/2024 (clarified the meaning of course access authorisers)