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00:07: What user roles and permissions are available in canvas.

00:11: Course, level roles are roles with permissions that allow a user course, level access.

00:15: Usually users with these roles. Cannot see more than what is in their canvas courses.

00:21: Canvas provides five base course, level user roles that each include their

00:25: own set of default permissions. You can manage the permissions according

00:29: to the needs of your Institution. You can also create custom course

00:33: roles that are created from a base role. The canvas base roles are.

00:39: Student, these users are permitted to submit assignments.

00:42: This permission should not be turned off for this role student permissions

00:46: are restricted, but they have enough. Permissions to access and interact.

00:50: With course materials. You may also Grant other permissions to students.

00:56: Teacher the teacher role grants a user course, admin permissions, giving

01:00: them control over their assigned course, or courses.

01:03: However, institutions can revise and limit these permissions as needed depending

01:08: upon the needs of your Institution.

01:11: Ta these users have permissions similar to teachers except that TAs

01:15: should not have access to Sis data.

01:18: The TA role is meant to support the teacher role admins can manage

01:22: TA permissions. For example, some institutions May permit

01:26: TAs to grade students submissions

01:30: Designer, these users are permitted to access and create course content

01:34: including announcements assignments, discussions and

01:38: quizzes, but they cannot build or edit new quizzes.

01:42: Designer access to student information, varies by institution, but they

01:46: do not have access to grades. If your institution does not use

01:50: course, designers you may choose to use this role as another TA user role.

01:54: That has more permissions than a regular TA.

01:58: Observer this user role can be linked to a student user enrolled in

02:02: a course. For example, parents Guardians, and or

02:06: mentors may wish to be linked to a student to view their course progress.

02:10: Observers usually have the fewest permissions.

02:14: Account admins have the power to set permissions for all users in canvas.

02:18: Admins can create additional account level roles with account level permissions.

02:22: The default permissions for account, admins can include access to everything

02:26: within the account. Plus, the ability to masquerade as a user, Each

02:31: sub-account has its own permissions page.

02:33: So admins can create a count level roles within a sub account and add

02:37: sub-account permissions directly within the sub account.

02:41: Sub-account admins can only manage permissions and settings for the sub accounts

02:45: to which they've been assigned. However, some permissions may not be available

02:49: for sub account users.

02:53: This guide covered the user roles and permissions available in canvas.