Teaching Assistants

Overview

A teaching assistant is responsible for helping instructors run a course and grade assignments. 

Permissions

Teaching assistants can grade assessments and use collaboration tools in courses. If teaching assistants are added as path administrators, they can configure paths. They can enroll in courses, paths, and groups. They can create collaboration groups.

Limitations

Teaching assistants cannot configure courses, add content, delete courses, add learners, add teams, run reports, or access the full Users catalog.

Possible roles of Teaching assistants

• teaching assistant
• group owner
• group administrator
• group member
• learner
• organization member
  

Adding a Teaching assistant to a course

To add a Teaching assistant to a course, course owners:

1. Access the course or class.
   
2. Click Admin from the course navigation menu.
   
3. Click Features from the fly-out menu.
   
4. Select the TA checkbox.
   

Please note you must have users with the TA role on your platform for the TA feature to be available at the course level.

After enabling TAs at the course level, the TAs option becomes available on the course menu. To add a Teaching assistant to the course:

1. Click TAs from the course navigation menu.
   
2. Click Add.
   
3. Use the People picker or Email invitations to add TAs to the course.

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