Description: The Banner Instructor role is automatically assigned to instructors of record through Athena and Banner. It mirrors the Instructor role in nearly all course-level capabilities while restricting manual enrollment actions in order to protect student information accuracy and privacy. This role is intended for faculty listed officially for the course.
This Role Can: Access all instructor tools and permissions within their assigned courses, create and edit all course content, adjust course settings, communicate with students, manage assignments, quizzes, and discussions, view all student submissions and grades, enter and post grades in the gradebook, managed enrollment for non-automated roles.
This Role Cannot: Manually enroll or remove Instructor, Banner Instructor, or Student roles from a course. rename courses or course codes, perform a full course reset.
Who can enroll this role: This role is automatically generated, assigned, and managed for all Athena/Banner courses in eLC. This role is not available for manual enrollment into an eLC course.
When to Use This Role: Used only when Banner (Athena) assigns an official instructor of record to a course offering.
Description: The Demo Student role allows instructors to experience a course exactly as a student would. This role is often used to preview materials, test release conditions, and confirm the student-facing view of assessments and content. The Demo Student role should only be assigned to a Demo Student eLC account. Faculty and staff can request a Demo Student account.
This Role Can: View and interact with course content, discussions, assignments, and quizzes, see and experience settings such as release conditions and date restrictions that apply to students, view how the course layout, content, and assessment tools appear to students.
This Role Cannot: Access official student rosters or grading functions, modify course content or settings unless combined with another role, perform instructor-level tasks such as managing enrollments or finalizing grades, automatically appear in real course analytics as a fully enrolled student.
Who Can Enroll This Role: Any Banner Instructor/Instructor can enroll an eLC user into this course role.
When to Use This Role: Use when testing or validating the student experience.
Description: The Exporter/Reviewer role is intended for faculty, staff, or auditors who need to review or export course components without making changes. This role supports activities like accreditation reviews and preparation of course materials for reuse.
This Role Can: View course content, access and submit assignments and surveys, view quizzes, participate in discussions, export course components, see quizzes and assignments without altering them.
This Role Cannot: Edit course content, view the gradebook to access other students’ grades, access or appear on the classlist, manage announcements or navigation, copy components into the course, manage course components.
Who Can Enroll This Role: Any Banner Instructor/Instructor can enroll an eLC user into this course role.
When to Use This Role: Assign when someone needs read-only access to course materials with export capability.
Description: The Incomplete Student role is used when an enrolled student has an approved course extension and must finish outstanding work after the course concludes. It provides access only to the specific materials and assessments needed to complete remaining requirements.
This Role Can: Access the necessary module materials required to finish outstanding coursework, submit assignments, take allowed quizzes, view their own grades and instructor feedback.
This Role Cannot: Access the full course unless permitted, view other students’ submissions or grades, modify course content, alter course settings, manage enrollments.
Who Can Enroll This Role: Any Banner Instructor/Instructor can enroll an eLC user into this course role.
When to Use This Role: Assign only when a student has an officially approved Incomplete.
Description: The Instructional Designer role is intended for instructional design staff or support personnel who assist faculty in planning, organizing, and building course materials. This role provides broad access to course content creation and design tools while restricting enrollment and grading actions to protect student privacy and instructor authority.
This Role Can: Create, edit, and manage course content, adjust course settings such as start or end dates and navigation, organize modules and topics, support design improvements, manage grade items, categories, and schemes.
This Role Cannot: Enroll or remove users from the course, assign or modify grades, access the gradebook.
Who Can Enroll This Role: Any Banner Instructor/Instructor can enroll an eLC user into this course role.
When to Use This Role: Assign when a instructional designer or support specialist is assisting with course design, layout, content development, quality improvement, or preparing a course for future delivery.
Description: The Instructor role is a full-access teaching role used in eLC courses that are not managed through Athena/Banner and provides full control over course content, activities, communication tools, and grading. This role is intended for faculty and staff primarily in Non-Athena eLC courses who design, deliver, and manage course content. In Athena/Banner-managed academic courses, the equivalent role is Banner Instructor, which is assigned automatically through the SIS.
This Role Can: Manage enrollments, create and edit all course content, adjust course settings, communicate with students, view and assign grades in the gradebook, view all student submissions, grades, and progress tracking tools.
This Role Cannot: Rename courses or course codes, perform a full course reset.
Who can enroll this role: In non-Athena courses, this role may be manually assigned by others in an Instructor role. In Athena/Banner courses, this role is not manually assigned; those courses use Banner Instructor, which is auto-enrolled.
When to Use This Role: Use the Instructor role for faculty or facilitators who require full course management in Non-Athena eLC courses, such as shells, development spaces, organization courses, sandbox courses, and non-credit instructional spaces. For Athena/Banner academic courses, the appropriate role is Banner Instructor.
Description: The Laboratory Assistant role supports graduate laboratory instructors or assistants who contribute to grading and facilitation in laboratory courses. This role provides grading and group management access without allowing structural edits to the course.
This Role Can: View all course content in the Content area, post announcements, grade assignments and quizzes, access the gradebook, create or manage groups.
This Role Cannot: Edit or delete assignments, quizzes, or content pages, adjust due dates, manage enrollments, modify course-level settings or course structure.
Who Can Enroll This Role: Any Banner Instructor/Instructor can enroll an eLC user into this course role.
When to Use This Role: Assign to laboratory assistants who support course facilitation but should not edit course materials.
Description: The Library Assistant role is used by UGA librarians who support faculty and students by reviewing course resources, checking accessibility, and identifying broken links. This role provides access to view and support course materials while limiting access to grades and sensitive student information.
This Role Can: View broken course links and URLs, see user progress for all users in a course, change enrollment, manage competencies, manage course content, assess discussion posts, manage groups, edit homepages, manage course properties and files.
This Role Cannot: modify grades, modify grade categories and gradebook settings.
Who Can Enroll This Role: Any Banner Instructor/Instructor can enroll an eLC user into this course role.
When to Use This Role: Assign when library staff assist a course by reviewing resources, verifying link integrity, supporting accessibility, or helping manage course materials.
Peer Learning Assistant (PLA)
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Description: The PLA role is used for undergraduate peer assistants who help support discussion facilitation, student engagement, and communication in large or active-learning courses. They assist students but do not grade or build course content.
This Role Can: Post announcements, manage discussions and assignments, view course content and the classlist, send and receive course email, view available quizzes, manage surveys.
This Role Cannot: Grade student work, access the gradebook, appear on the official classlist, edit content, take quizzes, manage course navigation or widgets.
Who Can Enroll This Role: Any Banner Instructor/Instructor can enroll an eLC user into this course role.
When to Use This Role: Assign to undergraduate peer learning assistants supporting student engagement and communication.
Description: The Student role is used by learners taking the course for credit or participation. It provides access to instructional materials, assessments, communication tools, and grade feedback relevant to course completion.
This Role Can: Access and complete assignments, participate in chat, access the classlist, view course content, participate in discussions, send and receive email, view their own grades and feedback, take quizzes, take surveys.
This Role Cannot: See other students’ grades or submissions, edit course content or settings, manage enrollments, grade other students.
Who can enroll this role: This role is automatically generated and managed for Athena/Banner courses in eLC. Banner Instructors cannot manually enroll students into an eLC course.
When to Use This Role: Use for all students who are participating in the course for credit or required learning outcomes.
Description: The Student Auditor role provides access to course content and participation activities for individuals auditing a course without earning credit. It includes many student-facing tools while restricting access to grading functions.
This Role Can: View announcements, submit assignment files, access the calendar, participate in chat, view feedback, view course progress, view course content, participate in discussions, send course emails, view their own grades, view group and section membership, take quizzes and surveys.
This Role Cannot: Change grades, view other students’ data, earn academic credit.
Who Can Enroll This Role: Any Banner Instructor/Instructor can enroll an eLC user into this course role.
When to Use This Role: Assign for students officially or unofficially auditing a course.
Description: The TA Designer role is intended for graduate assistants or staff who help faculty design or prepare course materials. This role allows content editing and setup without providing access to student submissions or grading tools.
This Role Can: Edit course content, monitor quizzes and assessments, moderate discussions, configure release conditions, see content and tool settings, manage grade items, categories, and schemes.
This Role Cannot: View student submissions, assign grades, access the gradebook, manage enrollments.
Who Can Enroll This Role: Any Banner Instructor/Instructor can enroll an eLC user into this course role.
When to Use This Role: Assign when a TA assists with course design and setup but should not grade or access student submissions.
Description: The TA Grader role supports individuals responsible for grading assignments or assessments. It provides access to student work and grading tools while preventing content or course setting changes.
This Role Can: Access student submissions and assign grades, view the gradebook and feedback tools.
This Role Cannot: Edit course content or settings, post announcements, manage enrollments, modify quizzes or assignments.
Who Can Enroll This Role: Any Banner Instructor/Instructor can enroll an eLC user into this course role.
When to Use This Role: Assign when a TA or grader’s responsibilities are limited strictly to grading.
Teaching Assistant (TA)
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Description: The Teaching Assistant role supports graduate assistants or staff members helping with course instruction. It includes content editing, grading privileges, and assessment management while restricting enrollment access.
This Role Can: View and grade student work, moderate discussions, manage quizzes, edit course content and settings, access the gradebook, view student submissions and analytics.
This Role Cannot: Manage course enrollments, perform a course reset.
Who Can Enroll This Role: Any Banner Instructor/Instructor can enroll an eLC user into this course role.
When to Use This Role: Assign when a TA supports both instruction and grading within a course.
