Roles

Within Myplace there are a number of formal and informal roles that can be assigned. Myplace Roles are generally mapped to PEGASUS Responsibilities.

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Formal Roles

Formal roles are defined in PEGASUS and can only be updated via the PEGASUS Roles and Responsibilities application.

All of the formal roles are constrained by Student Business / HR rules, and may not be assignable if a particular user doesn't satisfy those rules.

Formal roles and academic contracts

Staff who are no longer formally employed on academic contracts cannot hold formal roles on classes.

Title

Also Known As

Scope

Description

Capabilities granted

Title

Also Known As

Scope

Description

Capabilities granted

Lecturer



Module

Typically these members of staff are responsible for the content and / or delivery of the course itself.

  • Can create, edit, delete and maintain Myplace class sites

  • Cannot view identities of students whilst Blind Marking is enabled

  • Can grade students

  • Can be made responsible person for activity marking & feedback return

Module Administrator



Module

This is the member(s) of staff who have administrative responsibility for the class.

  • Can create, edit, delete and maintain Myplace class sites

  • Can view identities of students whilst Blind Marking is enabled

  • Can grade students

  • Can be made responsible person for activity marking & feedback return

Module Organiser

Module Registrar

Module Coordinator

Module

This is the member of staff with overall responsibility. Typically this will be the member of staff who gained approval for the module.

Module Contact



Module

This is the member(s) of staff who may be contacted with regard to any enquiries about the module. They may be academic or administrative staff. This role must be held in conjunction with another role.

  • Displayed as contact for the class on class information

(PEGASUS) Tutor



Module

This role allows the assignment of University staff who do not fall into any of the preceding roles, for example teaching assistants.

  • As for Lecturer

Electronic Marks Returner



Module

This role is allocated to members of staff who are responsible for the return of student marks to Student Business. This role must be held in conjunction with another role.

  • Can prepare and send class marks to Student Record System

Programme Organiser

 

Programme

This is the member(s) of staff who have overall academic responsibility for a Programme

 

Programme Administrator

 

Programme

This is the member(s) of staff who have overall administrative responsibility for a Programme

 

Users are able to maintain their own roles and responsibilities. In addition administrative staff in departments typically have access to maintain other members of staff' roles

For issues with assigning staff via Roles & Responsibilities see Add Formal Staff Roles to a Class.

Informal Roles

Informal roles may be assigned directly within Myplace and represent users that have a less formal responsibility to the class.

Title

Also Known As

Scope

Description

Capabilities Granted

Title

Also Known As

Scope

Description

Capabilities Granted

Extension Approver

 

Faculty/Department

Administrative user who can action Extension Requests. Typically established where extension requests are not handled by individual Module staff

  • Recieve notifications of Extension Requests

  • Record a decision against Extension Requests

Extension Manager

 

Faculty/Department

Administrative user who can assign other Extension Managers or Extension Approvers

 

Tutor



Module

This is a "catch all" teaching role. It is frequently used with Limited Access accounts or for users that may only need to be a "member of staff" on the class for a short period of time.

  • As for Lecturer

Non-editing Tutor



Module

This is a teaching role that has no capability to modify the content of the class site.

  • Cannot modify content of courses

  • Can grade students

Visitor



Module

This is a limited access role that allows access to the materials in a class, but does not allow the user to do any of the activities.

  • View content that does not result in a grade (i.e. Resources only).

All management of Informal Roles is the responsibility of the local, owning department to maintain. Myplace support will not assign or un-assign roles that can be locally managed.

For issues with assigning staff to informal roles, see Add Informal Roles to a Class

Other Roles

A number of other roles may be assigned by the Myplace Support Team to accomodate specific business practices. 

If you wish to assign users to this role please contact learning-technologies@strath.ac.uk

Title

Description

Title

Description

Faculty / Departmental Administrator

This role affords the same capabilities as the Class Administrator role, but may be assigned at a category level. Typical uses are where a member of staff has responsibility for a large number of modules and it would be overly burdensome to allocate them to each module individually.

Faculty / Departmental Learning Technology Advisor

This role is only assignable at category level, and is for staff with a responsibility to support Learning Technology over a wide range of modules (e.g. a department). This role may also afford access to additional tools not normally available to staff.

Learning Technology Advisor

This role is only available to Myplace Support Staff.

Reading List Creator

This role is only assignable to Library & Information Service Staff to allow the adding of reading list activities to Myplace Sites.

Accessibility Toolkit Users

This role enables staff to have access to the Accessibility Toolkit. The role can only be assigned by staff who have the Accessibility Admin role. It’s assignable at the category level, or at the system level to staff who have system wide access.

Programme Data Viewer

This allows users to gain access to Progamme Learning Analytics data. This is available at a departmental, programme or programme year levels.

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