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An Instructor can add a Teaching Assistant or co-instructor to their site at any time . The using the Add an Instructor or Teaching Assistant tool on a site’s homepage will facilitate this.

Students are added to course sites based on official roster data and any changes (adds/drops) are synced daily. No manual adjustments in Brightspace are necessary.

Brightspace refers to all roster-based categories (labs, lectures, seminars, etc.) within a course as “Sections”. The steps below will add someone to all Sections within a site.

It is possible to further adjust enrollment (e.g. assign a TA to only specific sections) through Classlist.

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Project site membership is typically maintained by manually enrolling through the Classlist tool.

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Brightspace refers to all roster-based categories (labs, lectures, seminars, etc.) within a course as “Sections”. The steps below will add a new user to all Sections within a site. To add a user to a specific Section(s) (e.g., TAs who only oversee certain labs/tutorials/seminars), follow the steps in Add someone to specific Sections.

Find

Find and use the Add an Instructor or Teaching Assistant widget

The Add an Instructor or Teaching Assistant widget is available on all site homepages . Depending on the layout, you may have to scroll down.

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Enter the user’s information

Enter the Brock username (likely and can be found near the bottom of all homepage layout options. This widget is not visible to students.

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  1. Enter the username (the first part of

their

  1. a Brock email address) of the person

you want to add and select their role: TA or Instructor. An

  1. to be added. Unfortunately, this field cannot search by name.

  2. Select the role the user will assume in the course site: Teaching Assistant or Instructor. Any user can be added in any role, although the options are limited: an Instructor has full editing powers

in Brightspace,

  1. where a Teaching Assistant is limited to interacting with student

work. You do not have the ability to further adjust permission levels in Brightspace

  1. assessment.

  2. Click the Add button to enroll the user in all sections of the site

, then confirm

  1. . Confirm their addition in

the

  1. Classlist

tool

  1. .

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