The existing process to provide UTAs with elevated access to Speegrader as part of their course responsibilities, has been updated. Instructors can now provide their UTAs with elevated permissions directly through Canvas.
What has changed?
The UTA grader process now grants instructors the access and permissions necessary to provide their UTAs with elevated Speedgrader access directly through the Brown Users LTI.
Requesting elevated UTA access for specific users via request form (Undergraduate TA Grader) - Summer 2026
Phase 1 of this process allowed instructors to continue to request UTA elevated access exceptions through this UTA elevated access form. The distinction being that instructors were be able to identify which specific UTAs in their course should receive the elevated access.
Once enrolled, instructors were be able to distinguish between non-grading UTAs (Undergraduate TA) and grading TAs (Undergraduate TA Grader) based on the role they have in the People tool.
That request process concluded Summer 2026
Phase 1 has concluded and Instructors are no longer required to complete the UTA elevated access form.
Instructors can now add elevated UTAs via Add/Remove Brown Users tool
The second phase of this process allows instructors to use the Add/Remove Brown Users LTI to add Undergraduates with elevated access on their own.
Please see our article: How Can I Provide My UTA With Elevated Speegrader Permissions? for more information
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