What is the Peer Leader Role?

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As of 2024, Peer Leader is the default role for any undergraduate who is serving in a course-support role such as SI Leaders and similar.

Peer Leader is a customized role based on the Observer base role. For observer-based roles, all view permissions (discussions, assignments, pages, modules, quizzes) are limited to what is published and unlocked. Observer-based roles cannot submit to assignments or attempt quizzes. This also includes the course as a whole (no access to unpublished course).

See Below for more details about the permissions of the Peer Leader Role:

 

Peer Leader

Announcements, Messages

View, Send

Discussions

Create, Moderate, Post, View

Grades

No Access

Assignments

View

Quizzes

No Access[1]

Modules

View, Create, Add Items[4]

Files

View, Add[6]

Pages

View, Create[7]

Course Settings

No Access

Attendance

No Access[10]

Lockdown Browser

No Access

Unpublished Content

No Access

 

[1] Peer Leader can open quiz and view initial instructions, but cannot view questions, attempt quiz, or edit quiz. This applies to both Classic and New Quizzes.

[4]Cannot publish or unpublish modules or module items.

[6] Files can be added to modules without being “published” (there is no “publish” for files) – provided the module itself is published

[7]Cannot publish/unpublish Pages

[10] May be able to see, and click on, Attendance tools, but will then get an “access denied” message

 

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Article ID: 162004
Created
Wed 10/9/24 10:18 AM
Modified
Tue 1/28/25 12:26 PM