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Course administrator permissions

As a course admin this role can…

The permissions listed in this area apply to the course administrator or instructor in the course. Course admins are identified by a yellow shield and are usually teachers or system administrators.

By default, all Course Admins can:

  • Create Grading Groups from the Members area of the course to differentiate learning for students.

  • Review access codes for the course.

  • Download parent access codes for the course if this permission is enabled for the organization.

  • Review the Members area of the course, including Inactive members.

  • Manage course

    • Enabled: Gives permission to access Course Options and Edit options (gear in My Courses). Also grants permission to add Course Calendar Events.

    • Disabled: Course Options and Edit options are not accessible.

  • Manage materials

    • Enabled: Gives permission to Add Materials, adjust materials, and Bulk Edit materials in the course. Also provides access to the Grade Setup area.

    • Disabled: The role cannot add or edit course materials.

  • Manage submissions

    • Enabled: Gives permission to review and comment on student submissions to graded materials in a course.

    • Disabled: The role cannot review or comment on student submissions.

The Manage submissions permission does not affect submissions to assignments created in LTI app integrations such as Google or OneDrive assignments. Only the course admin who creates the assignment can review and manage these submissions.

  • Manage roster

    • Enabled: The course admin can add participants using the Add Members button, remove course participants using the Unenroll option, designate other course members as course administrators, and remove Course Admin designation from course members.

    • Disabled: The role cannot manage course membership.

  • View attendance

    • Enabled: Provides view-only access to a course's Attendance area, including the ability to navigate to different dates and print attendance reports.

    • Disabled: The Attendance area does not display for the course admin.

  • Manage attendance

    • Enabled: In addition to the permissions provided via View attendance, this permission enables course admins to make changes in the Attendance area of their courses.

    • Disabled: Course admins are restricted to reviewing and printing attendance information only.

    • Prerequisite permissions: View attendance

When both View attendance and Manage attendance permissions are disabled, the Attendance area does not appear to course admins.

  • View gradebook

    • Enabled: Provides view-only access to a course's Gradebook, including the ability to print reports and export grades.

    • Disabled: The Gradebook area does not appear to course admins.

  • Manage gradebook

    • Enabled: In addition to the permissions provided via View gradebook, this permission enables course admins to make changes in the Gradebook area.

    • Disabled: Course admins are restricted to viewing, exporting, and printing grade information only.

    • Prerequisite permissions: View gradebook

When both View gradebook and Manage gradebook permissions are disabled, the Gradebook area does not appear to course admins.

  • Manage all course grade settings

    • Enabled: Gives permission to edit all areas of the Grade Setup page.

    • Disabled: The role cannot edit grade setup settings.

  • Edit category weights only in course grade settings

    • Enabled: Gives permission to edit category weights only in the Grade Setup.

    • Disabled: The role cannot edit category weights.

  • Manage mastery

    • Enabled: Gives permission to access the Mastery area of a course.

    • Disabled: The Mastery area does not appear to the admin.

  • Manage badges

    • Enabled: Gives permission to access the Badges area of a course.

    • Disabled: The Badges area does not appear to the admin.

  • Set member passwords

    • Enabled: Gives permission to Change Password for members in the Members area of the course.

    • Disabled: The role cannot change member passwords.

  • Edit course info

    • Enabled: The course admin can make changes in the Edit Info area of the Course Options menu. This applies to courses or sections created in Schoology, but not courses or sections created from an SIS sync or import.

    • Disabled: Course admins cannot make any changes in Edit Info.

  • Customize imported course name

    • Enabled: Course admins can rename courses and sections created via SIS sync or imports from the Edit Info area. The change will not be overwritten on subsequent re-syncs or re-imports.

    • Disabled: SIS-imported course names cannot be edited.

    • Prerequisite permissions: Edit course info.

It is recommended that course admins edit the section name only since edits to the course name affect all sections within the course shell.

  • Copy sections

    • Enabled: Gives permission to make a copy of the section from the My Courses area.

    • Disabled: The role cannot copy sections.

  • View workload planning

    • Enabled: Course admins can review the Workload Planning area of a course.

    • Disabled: Workload Planning is not visible to the role.

  • Print QR Codes

    • Enabled: Course admins can print QR Codes for students in their sections whose role and building association permit them to log in using a QR Code.

    • Disabled: The role cannot print QR codes for students.