Add or remove section instructors

Before you can add a section instructor

Colleagues and assistants who are to become section instructors must sign in, open the course, and accept the End-User License and Privacy Agreement before you can promote them.

Promote one or more colleagues or assistants to section instructor

Select Mastering Student IDs & Groups from your LMS course.
Select the Promote to Section Instructor check box for each person that you want to designate as a section instructor.
Choose Save.
The names you selected no longer appear in the list of students.

Give or change specific privileges for a section instructor, or remove a section instructor

Select Mastering Student IDs & Groups from your LMS course.
At the top of the page, select the Manage Section Instructors link.
Select the privileges for this section instructor then choose Save Privileges.
To remove a section instructor, select the Remove check box (far right) then choose Save Privileges.

Actions section instructors and teaching assistants can automatically take

A section instructor can automatically see answers to questions in the Item Library, without being granted any privileges in the course. Section instructors who started with student access have some privileges withheld.

Activity	Educator Account	Student Account
Use the Gradebook to view student grades and link to details of student work
View all items (including correct answers) in the Item Library
Access any Instructor Resources in your course (if any)
View the Roster, send email to a student, and export Roster details
Access and create reports of student progress in the Dynamic Study Modules for your course (if any)
View, print, and export the Learning Outcomes Summary
See assignment answers on the Print View with Answers page

Descriptions of privileges you can grant to section instructors

Privilege	Activities
Gradebook	Adjust student scores and other settings, which include changing student grades; awarding assignment exemptions and extensions (including time limits for timed assignments); and resetting an assignment for one or more students to allow them to redo it for a different score. Manage Mastering Gradebook tasks, which include editing categories and weighting; creating and scoring offline (non-Mastering) activities; exporting Gradebook data; and setting preferences for that person's Gradebook view. Note: Removing the Gradebook privilege does not prevent a section instructor from seeing answers for items.
Course Settings	Update course settings such as whether to display grades as points or percentages, or whether to allow students to see their total Mastering score.
Roster	Edit Student IDs and assign students to groups.
Assignments	Create and edit course assignments, including editing assignment settings, selecting and organizing items for assignments, associating items with learning outcomes, and specifying assignment dates. Note: Removing the Assignments privilege does not prevent a section instructor from viewing correct answers for items in the Item Library.
Announcements	Add, edit, and delete any Mastering Course Home page announcement.
Essays	Grade and regrade essays and other free-form text. Also requires the Mastering Gradebook privilege (see above).
Learning Catalytics	Complete all instructor tasks in Learning Catalytics courses, modules, and sessions. These include editing course settings, setting up modules, delivering sessions, reviewing results, and editing scores.

Add/remove section instructors and give privileges