Add a TA or instructor to a site

Owned by Alisa Cunnington (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Oct 31, 2024 by Gareth Seymour
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An Instructor can add a Teaching Assistant or co-instructor to their site at any time using the Add an Instructor or Teaching Assistant tool on a site’s homepage.

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.

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

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

a screenshot showing The Add an Instructor or Teaching Assistant widget on a course homepage
The Add an Instructor or Teaching Assistant widget.

  1. Enter the username (the first part of a Brock email address) of the person 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 where a Teaching Assistant is limited to interacting with student assessment.

  3. Click the Add button to enroll the user in all sections of the site. Confirm their addition in Classlist.

Please contact CPI at edtech@brocku.ca with any questions or comments about the contents of this site.