Teaching Assistant Designations - Office of the Registrar

In conjunction with the project to identify how graduate students are contributing to teaching, new values have been created in CLSS to indicate who is supporting course instruction. There are now four separate values that can help assess how a TA is contributing to teaching.

TA-Instructor: Designates a graduate student who is fully responsible for teaching the course, can publish a Canvas course, and manage class links. Indicates that this is a graduate student functioning as the primary instructor for the class section.
TA: This is a full TA and has permissions to build Canvas content, enter grades in Canvas and Post grades to PeopleSoft. Typically, you would see someone in a TA role AND a Primary Instructor listed for a single class section.
TA-Grading: Does not have ability to change course content in Canvas, but has grading responsibilities and would assist a faculty member with course instruction or grading. Typically, you would see someone in a TA-Grading role AND a Primary Instructor listed for a single class section.
TA-Peer: No grading permissions, often used for a TA that acts as a tutor and provides office hours, but nothing else. Typically, you would see someone with a TA-Peer role AND a Primary Instructor listed for a single class section.

Primary and Secondary instructors will continue to function as they previously have and roles are also defined in the table below. As part of these new role definitions, adjustments have been made in the online schedule to include information about instructor type. These new values will also migrate into Canvas and the course evaluation system.


Designation	Primary Instructor	Secondary Instructor	TA-Instructor	TA	TA-Grading	TA-Peer
Function	Professor, Faculty, or Adjunct Faculty who functions as the primary instructor for the course section	May act as a guest lecturer or contribute content to the course, but does not have a primary teaching responsibility	Graduate Student functioning as the Primary Instructor. Has Full Canvas and grading permissions	Works alongside an instructor and can make edits in Canvas.	Works alongside a primary instructor and may assist with grading assignments or papers, etc.	Provides peer tutor or office hours, does not assist with entering grades
EDIT Canvas Content	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
PUBLISH Canvas	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
VIEW Grades in Canvas	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
ENTER Grades in Canvas	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
SAVE Grades in Canvas	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
VIEW Grades in PeopleSoft	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SAVE Grades to PeopleSoft	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
POST Grades to PeopleSoft	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
Can Delegate PeopleSoft Grading	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Manage Class Links (Upload Syllabus to Class Schedule)	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Listing in CLSS	Primary Instructor	Secondary Instructor	Teaching Assistant-Instructor	Teaching Assistant	Teaching Assistant-Grading	Teaching Assistant-Peer
Course Evaluations Description	Primary Instructor	Secondary Instructor	TA	TA	TA	TA
Online Schedule Listing	Instructor	Instructor	TA	TA	TA	TA
Translation from TBP Course Inventory Memo (Check with your Department Chair if you have questions)	N/A	N/A	TA1	TA2	TA2	TA3

Teaching Assistant Designations - New Values