Bruin Learn - TA Roles

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Last updated: Dec 15, 2021
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Teaching 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 Teaching Assistants to a Course

The following step-by-step guide will cover how to create a Teaching Assistant role within Bruinlearn:

  1. Click on People from the course navigation menu

  2. Click on the Add People button near the top-right

  3. On the modal popup screen, type in the Teaching 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.

     

  4. 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.