Teacher Assistants provide support to UCLA faculty by helping to manage course material and engage with students among other tasks. Like in CCLE, TAs have a specific system role which allows them to perform the following tasks:
Add and delete external applications (LTI) for a course
Create conferences and student collaborations
Create and edit rubrics
Customize Course Navigation links
Delete and lock discussions and edit others’ discussion posts
Generate observer pairing codes for students
Manage assignments, quizzes, course files and pages, and all other course content
Manage items in a course calendar, including Scheduler appointments
Manually add students to a course
Send messages to other course users and to all members of a course
View a list of users in a course
View all student group pages for a course
View and comment on student submissions
View and edit grades
View and link to question banks
View course analytics
View course announcements and discussions
View usage reports for a course
Source: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Basics-Guide/What-is-the-Teacher-Assistant-role/ta-p/84
Adding Teacher Assistants to a Course
The following step-by-step guide will cover how to create a Teacher Assistant role within Bruinlearn:
Click on People from the course navigation menu
Click on the Add People button near the top-right
On the modal popup screen, type in the Teacher Assistant’s email address, change the Role from Student to TA and click the Next button. If multiple people need to be added, list them separated by commas or line breaks.
Lastly, confirm your selection details by clicking Add Users. This last action should send an invitation to the email address of the person you provided. The person should also appear within the list of people for the course.
