Observer role for coaches

Summary

Within Canvas, the ability exists to assign the role of observer to members within the Canvas environment. Adding observer role to a coach allows the coach to gain insight into details of a student in a course without being enrolled in that course. When a coach has an observer role, they can go directly from StudyCoach to 'Grades' and 'Learning Outcomes' in a specific Canvas course.

Value

From StudyCoach, a coach can easily enter an individual student's course environment as an observer. The insight into grades, assignments, events, and course interactions, gives the coach more tools in (substantively) supervising an individual student.

Roles

Note: This feature might be disabled by the manager.

✨  Tip: Afraid that an observer role gives coaches too many options within Canvas? No worries. Observers have limited rights that only allow them to see what is happening in the course for their student. Thus, observers cannot participate, but they can see grades, assignments, events, and course interactions of only the students they observe. 

Learn exactly what an observer can do in the Canvas Basics Guide.

✨  Tip: When all coaches have received the observer role, their dashboard in Canvas becomes very large for one time. This is because all the courses of all the students a coach is currently supervising will then be shown on the coach's dashboard in Canvas. With the star method, the coach can easily set up which courses they do and do not want to see on the dashboard in Canvas.