Institutions may use multiple custom roles as "Instructor" or "Student" roles in their LMS. Qwickly Attendance uses each LMS's default Instructor and Student roles when detecting users in a course. However, Qwickly Attendance allows an Institution's Admins to configure additional roles to use the tools by adding them through the Attendance System Settings.
The setting can be found by navigating to www.qwickly.tools > Manage Attendance > Settings. The option is labeled Permissions > Custom Roles.
The roles are divided into two types, Instructor-Level and Student-Level:
Instructor-Level Roles
This provides a list of all roles Qwickly was able to retrieve from your LMS system by using APIs. The custom roles that need to be allowed Instructor Level access can be checked.
NOTE FOR D2L USERS: In order to configure custom instructor roles in Qwickly Attendance, Instance Administrators need to possess the following permission in D2L: Security > See Roles and Permissions > Department, Program
More specifically, follow these steps:
- While logged in to D2L as an administrator, navigate to Settings > Roles and Permissions > (Role in use by Attendance Administrator) > Edit Permissions
- Filter by Tool Security
- Enable the See Roles and Permissions permission at the Department and Program level.
- Click Save
This warning message may be displayed if the required permissions are not enabled for the instance:
Student-Level Roles
If any custom student-level roles are used, the role names need to be entered into the input box. If multiple roles need to be entered, they can be separated with a comma (,)
Once the desired roles have been entered, the pop-up box can be closed and the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page needs to be clicked. This will save the selected roles and allow those roles to use Attendance.
Please also note that any roles that are input into an open text field are case sensitive and therefore need to match the role name from the LMS exactly.
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