Each participant in a TRACS site must have a role associated with them. 

Available roles for a course site are:

• Instructor
• TA
• Student
• Site Collaborator
• Site Assistant
• Grader
• Guest

Available roles for a project site are:

• Maintain
• Access
• Site Assistant
• Site Collaborator
• Guest

Each role has a set of permissions associated with it.  These permissions govern what a role can and cannot do.  Permissions for most tools can be modified by the instructor and maintain role by clicking on the permissions button in the respective tool you wish to modify them in.

Why would I want to change permissions?

The TRACS support team has tried to define system-wide permissions for each role, but that does not mean that you want to allow a particular role to do something else in your site.  You may want to change permissions to:

• allow students to post items in the resources tool for class discussion
• allow access members of the site to create announcements
• allow students to add events to the course calendar