eLC Course Roles

All eLC users can be added to individual courses in eLC, and assigned a variety of different roles. For regular academic courses, the basic roles of Instructor and Student are managed through automated processes established by EITS and the Registrar's office, to ensure the right people are in the right courses at the right times. Instructors and administrators are also able to add eLC users to individual courses, and can assign alternate roles to those users, to suit their needs. 

Please note: If users who are not on-record as instructor or student are added to an academic course in one of those roles, they will be automatically removed from the course without notice. For all other roles, instructors should take care to ensure that student privacy and FERPA rights are appropriately protected, by giving access to things like the gradebook and student work only as is necessary for running a class. 

Descriptions of eLC Roles 

Instructor

  • Possesses typical instructor setting and permissions  
  • Can: Manage enrollment, modify all content, assign grades, modify course settings   

Student

  • Possesses typical student settings and permissions
  • Can: Participate in assignments, participate in chat, access classlist, view content, participate in discussions, send/receive email, earn grades, take quizzes, take surveys 

Designer

  • Equivalent to Instructor minus enrollment or grading  
  • Can: Modify all content, modify course settings   
  • Cannot: Modify enrollment, assign grades   

Teaching Assistant  

  • Role used by staff or graduate assistants to assist faculty  
  • Equivalent to Instructor minus enrollment  
  • Can: Monitor quizzes and assessments, moderate discussions, modify selective release, assign grades, modify content, modify course settings  
  • Cannot: Modify enrollment   

TA Designer  

  • Role used by staff or graduate assistants to assist faculty  
  • Equivalent to Teaching Assistant minus grading  
  • Can: Monitor quizzes and assessments, moderate discussions, modify selective release  
  • Cannot: View student work, assign grades, manage enrollment   

TA Grader  

  • Role used by staff or graduate assistants to assist faculty  
  • Equivalent to Teaching Assistant minus enrollment or design  
  • Can: View student work, assign grades   
  • Cannot: Modify content, modify course settings, manage enrollment   

Demo Student 

  • Role used by faculty and staff to test student view or students who need to complete a class 
  • Equivalent to Student plus access out of date quizzes 
  • Can: Access out-of-date quizzes, conditionally release quizzes, see/earn badges at the org level, see/earn certificates at the org level, search for peer learning assistant at org level 
  • Cannot: Access email features in a section, cannot appear in online rooms 

User Auditor 

  • Role used by staff to audit students 
  • Can: See announcements, view discussions and discussion statistics, view feedback, view submitted files, view auditee’s course progress 
  • Cannot: change grades, submit files to assignment, capture audio, manage personal chats, be evaluated for competencies, compose threads in discussions, use eLC email, see SCORM objects, see any other student data, take survey, take a quiz  

Library Assistant 

  • Role used by UGA Librarians 
  • Can: view broken course links (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, 
  • Cannot: modify grades, modify  

Exporter/Reviewer 

  • Role used by instructors and auditors to allow them to review and export course content without the ability to make changes to the content  
  • Can: View content, active/inactive quizzes, submit assignment files, take surveys, see checklists, chat, compose threads in discussions, earn badges/certificates, export components out of a course offering, and provide feedback for assignments 
  • Cannot: Access the gradebook to see other grades, show up on the classlist, edit content, manage announcements, copy components into a course offering, manage widgets in a course, or manage navbars

Peer Learning Assistant (PLA) 

  • Role used by students who are PLAs for a course 
  • Can: Manage announcements, manage assignments, earn badges/certificates, view classlist, view content, manage discussions, send/receive email, view available quizzes, and manage surveys 
  • Cannot: Access the gradebook to see other grades, grade assignments, show up on the classlist, edit content, copy components into a course offering, manage widgets in a course, take quizzes, or manage navbars

Student Auditor 

  • Role used to audit courses 
  • Can: See announcements, see and submit files to assignment, access the calendar, chat, view feedback, view course progress, see course content, participate in discussions, send course emails, see own grades, see groups and sections, take quizzes, and take surveys 
  • Cannot: change grades, see other student data, get academic credit for classes