Roles determine in Brightspace which rights you have as a user of the system and these are effective at two levels:
- You have a role at the general Saxion level.
- You have a role at the course level (Course offering).
General roles in Brightspace
When you log in to Brightspace, you are assigned a general role (level Saxion) that determines which Brightspace functionalities you have access to. For example, an instructor has access to other menu items than students and a functional administrator has different rights than an instructor.
Brightspace has the following roles:
- Student: all Saxion students with a Brightspace account are assigned this role by default.
- Staff: all Saxion teaching staff are assigned this role by default.
- School support: this role is handed out manually and per academy (institution) to Brightspace administrators, so that they only have the corresponding rights within their own academy. This role allows inheritance, which means that the academy administrator has access to all courses within their own academy.
Roles per cours - all Brightspace roles
The table below shows all possible roles in Brightspace and what the associated rights are for each role.
Instructors (with the Lecturer A role) are added to the course by the Brightspace administrator of the academy. If Graders, Grader-Builders, Builders, and/or Observers are needed in the course, the instructor can add them himself. Read more about this in the article: How do I assign roles to colleagues in my course and how do I remove users from my course?
| Role | Intended for | Activities |
|---|---|---|
| Super Administrator | System admins | |
| School support | Delegated administrator within the academy, the role applies only to the academy in which the employee is employed. | With this role, support staff have access to all courses in their own academy. |
| Course Builder | Educators from TLC | A role for support staff (e.g., an educator, student assistant, TLC advisor). May see and modify content but not student data (submissions, course analytics, and results) |
| Lecturer A | Teacher | Instructor responsible for the course and has access to all course tools |
| Lecturer B | Teacher | The teacher can only teach and does not have the ability to modify the content or add tools |
| Student Assistant | Student assistants |
A role for students helping with Brightspace implementation equivalent to the 'Lecturer A' role |
| Student | Studenten | A standard role for students |
| Read-only (student) | Studenten | This role has read access to all content of a course that is also visible to a student |
| Read only Examination/Accreditation Committee |
Teachers, examination board, and external users |
This role is used by exam committees or accreditations committees, for example. This role has read access to all content of a course. |
As a teacher (with the Lecturer A role), you can both preview your course as a student (for example, to test how students see the course homepage or a quiz), and go through your course as a student (for example, to see what happens when you student submits an assignment). Read more about the article about view as student.