User Types

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Types of Users

Students

Students form the majority of users of iPeer; students also have the most limited amount of possible operations. Students are only allowed to submit evaluation assignments and to edit their own profiles

Tutors

Tutors assist with evaluating students within their assigned groups (see ticket #367). A user with the tutor role:

• can be added to any/all group(s) in a course
• can review the current evaluations of all students in their group at any time
• can complete an evaluation for all students in their group (a different evaluation from the one students complete)
• does not evaluate themselves when self-evaluation is enabled

Related behaviour:

• The course instructor can toggle whether a tutor's results are anonymous.
• Students do not evaluate the tutor, but can see the tutor's results (anonymous or named, depending on the setting).

Instructors

Instructors form the second largest user group. Instructors have the added ability to:

• edit courses
• add/edit/copy students
• add/edit/copy groups
• create/edit/copy evaluation formats
• add/edit/copy evaluation assignments
• email groups

Note: Instructors are only allowed to modify information related to their courses.

Administrator

Administrators form the smallest user group. An administrator has instructor capabilities (see above) for all courses and users. The administrator also has the very dangerous ability to delete information, which can cause data inconsistency (this is discussed in more detail for each individual section). There is also a super admin account that is used for administration of administrators. Administrators should pay careful attention to the administrator notes of this manual as it is very easy to cause database inconsistencies with the powerful delete/remove command.