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Course permissions

Creation

  • Create Courses

    • Enabled: Users can create their own courses from the Courses area on the top menu of Schoology, or from their My Courses area. It also allows you to delete a course.

    • Disabled: Users in this role will not see the option to create a course or delete a course.

If the course contains multiple sections, you must first delete all the sections before deleting the course.

  • Link and Unlink Sections

    • Enabled: Users who are also course admins can link together sections within the same course or unlink currently linked sections. Linked sections share the same set of materials and grade setup, and have toggles to switch between each section instantly.

    • Disabled: The option to link or unlink sections is not available.

Availability

  • View archived courses

    • Enabled: The role can see and access courses that are associated with grading periods that have passed.

    • Disabled: The Archived tab will not appear for the role. Users will encounter a Private Access Only message if they somehow find a link to the archived course.

  • View upcoming courses

    • Enabled: The role can see and access courses with grading periods that haven't yet started. The upcoming courses will appear in the same area as current courses.

    • Disabled: The role will encounter a Private Access Only message if they somehow find a link to the upcoming course.

Current courses are always available to users.

Assignment Submissions

This permission allows the course admin to enable the Submissions area of an assignment (it is enabled by default).

  • Allow assignment submissions

    • Enabled: Assignments created by the role include a Submissions area for students.

    • Disabled: All assignments created by the role do not have a Submissions area enabled for students.

Course Updates

This permission allows the role to create updates in a course and/or comment on updates and assignments in a course.

  • Create course updates

    • Enabled: The role can create and comment on updates in courses.

    • Disabled: The role cannot create or comment on course updates.

When the permission to Create Course Updates is enabled at the system level, teachers can turn off this feature for individual courses from the Course Settings area under Course Options within their course.

Student Grades/Mastery/Attendance

These permissions allow the role to see the Grades, Attendance, and Mastery area(s) in their Schoology account for the courses in which they're enrolled.

  • View received grades

    • Enabled: The Grades area appears in courses, and students can review grades for individual course materials.

    • Disabled: The Grades area does not appear, and students are unable to review grades for individual course materials.

  • View received mastery grades

    • Enabled: The Mastery area appears in the course.

    • Disabled: The Mastery area does not appear for the role.

  • View received attendance

    • Enabled: The Attendance area appears in the course.

    • Disabled: The Attendance area does not appear for the role.

Discussion

  • Participate in course discussions

    • Enabled: The role can post comments and responses in a course discussion.

    • Disabled: The role cannot participate in course discussions.

Join Courses

  • Use course access codes

    • Enabled: The role can use the Join a Course feature from the My Courses area.

    • Disabled: The Join a Course feature does not appear, and the role cannot use a course access code to join another course.

If this permission is grayed out, check System Settings to make sure that course access codes are enabled at the school.