Manage Instructor Roles, Permissions and Sections

This article covers the various instructor roles in Peerceptiv, how to manage the permissions those roles have, and how to create sections in Peerceptiv.

You can navigate to each topic using these links.

• Instructor Roles in Peerceptiv
• How to Manage Permissions for TAs and Graders
• Using Sections in Peerceptiv

Instructor Roles in Peerceptiv

Peerceptiv now supports the following instructor roles with role-specific permissions permitted:

Lead Instructor

Teacher

TA

Grader

If you are using Peerceptiv via your LMS, Peerceptiv will read the user's role in the LMS to assign a role. If you are using Peerceptiv outside of an LMS, the person who creates the course should assign the appropriate roles and permissions.

Lead Instructor

Each course can only have one Lead Instructor. The Lead Instructor will receive the email notifications regarding the course and assignments in the course. These notifications may include publication information, notification of reported student work, and grading reminders. The Lead Instructor can also manage permissions and set the roles of other instructor users. By default, the person who creates the course will be the Lead Instructor unless their role is manually changed and someone else is assigned the Lead Instructor role.

Teacher

A course can have any number of Teacher users. These users will have access to everything the Lead Instructor does but will not receive email notifications for the course. These users can make edits to the assignment settings and rubrics, can view student results, and can act as students.

TA

By default, a TA user has the same permissions as a Teacher. If the TA user(s) in the course should not have these permissions, an instructor in the course can set their permissions. You can do this by clicking on the course name at the top right of the navy bar and then selecting Manage Roster Permissions. Turn off any permissions that the TA should not have access to and leave the others on. These changes will auto-save. If you put a TA in a section, these permissions will only apply to the students in their section and they will not be able to view students in other course sections.

Grader

A grader only has access to review student work and view results. You can change these permissions by clicking on the course name at the top right of the navy bar and then selecting Manage Roster Permissions. Any changes you make will auto-save. If you put a Grader in a section, these permissions will only apply to the learners in their section and they will not be able to view learners in other course sections.

 

Change a User's Role

To change a user's role, go to the Peerceptiv roster for the course (click on the course name at the top right of the navy bar, then select Roster). Click on Instructors to see the instructional staff. Select a user and then select the appropriate role from the dropdown menu. The new role will be saved automatically.

How to Manage Permissions for TAs and Graders

To manage the permissions for TAs and Graders, go to the course name at the top right of the navy bar. Click on Manage Roster Permissions. Select TAs or Graders, depending on the role whose permissions you are managing. 

Then select either TAs or Graders. Graders are designed by default to only be able to see the rubric results and comments and student grades. You can turn any of the features on or off by clicking on the slider bar. Changes are saved automatically.

These features allow or limit these instructor role users in a course from acting as a student, downloading the results, editing the assignment settings, managing reports as part of the reporting process, viewing rubric results, and viewing student grades.

Using Sections in Peerceptiv

Peerceptiv allows instructors to create sections and to assign specific users to those sections. At this time, Peerceptiv does not read LMS sections, so assigning sections needs to happen manually. If an instructor, TA or Grader is in a section, they will only be able to see the users in their section.

To set up sections, go to the Peerceptiv course name at the top right of the navy bar and select Manage Course Sections. If aTA or Grader should have access to only those within their section, then you should include both student and instructor users when you create sections. A user can only be in one section at a time.

Then, set up the sections.

If you already have sections set up, you can use the Upload option to quicly upload a CSV file with user emails and the section information or you can copy and paste the same information into Peerceptiv.

You can set up sections manually in Peerceptiv if you have a small roster. To do this, click on New Section and then the plus sign at the left of that section and then Add Members.

Select the users and add them to the section. You can also rename the section. Repeat this until all of the intended users are in sections.

If you need to change the section members, click on that section, go to the member's name, and then select Remove by the dropdown menu of the individual students You can then add that student to the correct section, if appropriate.