Course Roles and Views

Summary of different access levels and related privileges.

WebCT

Title	Created by	Duties/Privileges
Designer	System Admin	Full course privileges, including: adding/deleting/hiding course content exporting and importing backups creating new student accounts creating assessment tools setting privileges, such as students' viewing their own grades, allowing guests to create their own accounts. A system administrator or a instructor with Designer access can add additional Designers by "sharing access."
Student	automated roster system	Students can log into all of their WebCT courses with their BU login name and Kerberos password. Student accounts are automatically created when their instructor requests a site.
Guest	Designer	WebCT has no default guest accounts, but Designers can create accounts with the same access privileges as students.
Teaching Assistant	Designer	A teaching assistant can: access Manage Students and any tools or pages that you add to the course grade assignments and quizzes change student grades view course content post Mail messages and Discussion topics add or modify content in Student Presentation areas

Blackboard

Title	Created by	Duties/Privileges
Instructor	System Admin	Full access to the course Control Panel, including: adding and deleting course content creating assessment tools changing grades
Teaching Assistant	System Admin	Appears to be identical to instructor, although this isn't specified in documentation. Cannot access Course Marketing.
Course Builder	System Admin	Access to all functions in the Control Panel except the gradebook.
Grader	System Admin	Access to assessment tools, gradebook. Graders do not have access to the drop box.
Student	automated roster system	Students can log into all of their WebCT courses with their BU login name and Kerberos password. Student accounts are automatically created when their instructor requests a site.
Guest	System Admin, Instructor	Guest accounts exist by default. Guests can view all course content. They cannot access or use the Communication and Student Tools.

Prometheus

Title	Created by	Duties/Privileges
Instructor	System Admin	Full access to modify the course, including: adding and deleting course content creating assessment tools changing grades
Teaching Assistant	System Admin	Same as Instructor (default). Instructor can grant or remove individual TAs' access to the following site areas: syllabus outline testing grade book projects files message discussions chat utilities
Student	System Admin	Access to view but not modify course content (default). Instructor can grant or remove individual students' access to the same areas as TAs.
Shadow (guest)	System Admin	Access to view but not modify course content. Shadow users are not visible to users other than the instructor. They can view discussions but cannot use other communication features.

Notes

In all three products, each user has a single account. This account can have different roles in different courses. For example, in one course the account might have TA privileges. In another, it might have only Student privileges. In another, it might have no access at all.

Prometheus offers the most flexibility in defining user access. Instructors can assign or remove individual TAs' and students' access to edit any section of the course site.