A summary of what the role can and can’t do
Introduction
If you need to give an external examiner access to your Blackboard course, there is a custom role which you can use to grant access to course materials, and to student work submitted to Blackboard and/or Turnitin.
This is a Course Role – like Instructor, Teaching Assistant, or Marker.
You can assign the External Examiner role when enrolling a user onto your course.
Permissions associated with the role
Course Content
- Can view all course content, including that which is currently unavailable to students.
- Not able to create new content or edit existing content
Please note:
An External Examiner can view an unavailable content item, but cannot open a file which is attached to an unavailable item. This can cause problems on some courses. These can be overcome by granting specific read permissions to the external examiner (please log a ticket for advice on this) or by changing their role to Teaching Assistant.
Grade Centre
Has full access to the Blackboard Grade Centre
- Can view and modify all grades – any type of gradable item (Blackboard and Turnitin Assignments, Tests, Blogs and Wikis).
- Can leave feedback.
N.B. It is not possible to grant “read-only” access to the Blackboard Grade Centre – if a user can access the Grade Centre then they automatically also have editing rights.
Turnitin Assignments
Has full access via Control Panel > Course Tools to
- edit assignment settings
- view and mark submitted work
N.B. anyone with access to work submitted to Turnitin will also have editing rights – it is not possible to grant read-only access.
Blackboard Assignments
- Not able to edit assignment settings.
Via the Grade Centre
- Able to view submitted work, grades and feedback
- Can grade and leave feedback on submitted work.
(subject to any rules applied via Delegated Marking)
Tests
- Not able to edit Test questions or edit settings.
- Can take Tests (preview) as a staff member – i.e. can take the Test, but answers will not be recorded in the Grade Centre.
- Can view ‘User Progress’ and ‘Item Analysis’.
- Can view students’’ grades via the Grade Centre.
Blackboard Blogs, Journals and Wikis
- Not able to edit Blog, Journal or Wiki settings.
- Able to view entries.
- Able to view ‘User Progress’.
- In Course Wikis and Blogs: able to edit content, comment, create a new wiki page or blog entry.
- Personal Journals, Group Blogs, Journals and Wikis: able to view posts, but not edit.
Campus Pack Blogs, Journals and Wikis
- Not able to edit Blog, Journal or Wiki settings.
- Able to view entries.
- Able to comment on entries, but cannot edit entries or make new posts.
- Able to view ‘User Progress’.
Page last updated on June 19, 2020 by andyturner
