Staff roles

Members of your course team can be assigned to two possible roles: course staff and instructor.

Course staff

The basic responsibility of the course staff is to:

• Access student grades
• Enroll and unenroll students
• Reset student attempts to answer a question
• Review/see course HTML errors
• Send e-mails to participants/students
• View the course before the start date

Instructor

The basic responsibility of the Instructor is to:

• Add and remove beta testers
• Add and remove course staff
• Add and remove Discussion Admins, Discussion Moderators, and Discussion Community Teaching Assistants
• Add and remove other instructors
• Perform all the functions of the course staff

You can designate these roles in the live course or in Studio. Likewise, the individuals you assign these roles to can access your course in either environment. To add course team members, perform these steps:

1. Ensure that you have Admin access.
2. Avoid the two Error adding user errors shown in the following screenshot by first verifying that the...