Promote a student to teaching assistant

Updated 08 Nov 2023

Use the roster to promote an active student to the teaching assistant role in your course. A teaching assistant is a student who helps an instructor manage aspects of a course and has course privileges defined by the instructor.

Teaching assistants can’t access the roster, can't change students' status, can't edit course details, and can't delete a course. The teaching assistant role applies within one course and not to any other course in which the student is enrolled.

If you have many teaching assistants in your course, use the roster to hide or show teaching assistants in students’ course details.

If you add student tutors, interpreters, accessibility assistants, or others who should not see student grades, enroll them as teaching assistants. Check their accesses to make sure they cannot see grades. By default, teaching assistants don't see grades.

If you want to enroll another instructor as section instructor, do not follow these steps to promote a student. Instead, use a section instructor access code and follow the steps to enroll a section instructor. Contact your Pearson support rep to learn if you can obtain section instructor access codes for your course.