You can configure a Teaching Assistant (TA) role to be section-restricted if you only want your TA to be able to view and grade content for specific sections and learners in a course.
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Important: You must have the required roles and permissions to access groups and sections to enroll your TA role into a specific section:
- To see and use the Sections tool, you must have the required Sections permissions applied to your role.
- To enable sections for your course, navigate to the Course Admin > Course Offering Information page of a course and select Course has sections.
- To locate the Sections tool, navigate to Course Admin from your navbar.
Refer to About Groups and Sections for more details.
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To create and configure a section-restricted TA role
- On your organizational homepage, navigate to Admin Tools > Roles and Permissions.
- On the Role List page, click Create / Copy.
- On the Create Role page, click Start Fresh.
- On the New Role page, enter a role Name for your TA. For example, Teaching Assistant or TA.
- Under Course Access Options > Sections, select None of the above. This option prevents this role from being automatically enrolled into sections. Users with this role must be manually enrolled into sections.
- Click Save.
- On the Edit Role Interactions page, select which roles can search for members of this role in the Users tool.
- Click Save.
Your new TA role is created.
Enroll a TA user in a section
The final step is to enroll your TA user in a specific section.
To enroll your TA in a section
- From the Course Admin page of a specific course, click Sections.
- On the Manage Sections page, click Enroll Users.
- Under Display, select All Sections or select an individual section.
- To find a user with the TA role that is not enrolled in a section:
- Click Show Search Options.
- Under Enrollment, clear Enrolled and ensure that Not Enrolled is selected.
- Modify your user's section assignments as needed.
- Click Save.