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What are the different roles in Brightspace?

There are many roles in Brightspace. Here are brief descriptions of each one:

Instructor – The instructor of record for the course.

Instructor (Non-SIS) – The organizer of a non-SIS course, with full privileges within that course space.

Designer – a guest instructor who has full privileges, but is not visible on the classlist

TA (Instructor) – a TA that will be grading, as well as uploading/creating content

TA (Editor) – a TA that will be uploading/creating content

TA (Grader) – a TA that will be using the gradebook

Student – a student enrolled in the course, also auditors

Student (Guest) – a student who is not enrolled in the course, but has been invited by the Instructor to view the content and participate