Instructors: Add an Assistant to your course

In D2L Brightspace courses, users can be assigned various roles. In a semester-based course, students are enrolled in the course with the “Student” role and instructor are enrolled with the “Instructor” role. Faculty often desire to add other faculty or assistants to courses. This article explains how to add others in the various roles available.

To add a second faculty member to your for credit course, please contact the Registrar's office  to request their addition to the course schedule in eServices. This will automatically provide them Instructor access to your course in D2L Brightspace and eServices.

Faculty can enroll teaching. learning, or graduate assistants (TA, LA, GA) themselves using the Enrollment Requests tool available in the Request Help widget found on any of your course homepages.  The next expandable section is a list of roles that are available and brief description of how they are different from the standard instructor or student roles.

Instructor-like roles

Assistant

This role is very similar to the instructor role. Use this role if you expect your assistant to be able to interact with the course in the same way you do. Access to the course will end on the course end date.

Grading Assistant

This role cannot edit assignments, quizzes, discussions, or content. It allows the assistant to access the grade book and enter and modify grades for all learning activities. Use this role if you want your assistant to help with grading only. Access to the course will end on the course end date.  

Content Assistant

This role cannot access or modify students’ grades. It allows the assistant to create and edit assignments, quizzes, discussions, and content. Use this role if you want your assistant to help create learning activities, assessments, and content only. Access to the course will end on the course end date.

Student-like roles

Student Tutor

This role does not appear in the grade book and you cannot submit assignments or take quizzes. It allows a tutor or other assistant to have access to all content in the same way that a student accesses it. Access to the course will end on the course end date.  

Student Extended Access

This role is very similar to the Student role. This role can access the course before the course Start Date and after the course End Date. Use this role if you want your student or assistant to have early access to the course, or if you want them to continue to have access after the course ends. This is an ideal role for students who are working on Incomplete or In-Progress grades.