Create a role that allows a teacher to view the class pages as the student

This ability will allow teachers to see what the student sees on thier pages and not have to ask administration or IT to impersonate students to ensure things appear as desired.

  • Kyle Collins
  • Jul 8 2020
  • Implemented
K-12 Core / Security / User Profile and Information
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    Jessi Walters commented
    28 Oct 19:26

    We anticipated that schools would want to create role clones for granting View-as access. Platform Manager has inherent access that can't be disabled, so System Admin is the safest place to put View as Student for now.

    I'm curious to hear your feedback; why is System admin insufficient? (Keep in mind that the task alone doesn't grant access in System Admin - the member must be given an access filter before it'll enable View-as for the user)

    I encourage you to create a new idea for this enhancement request as this one will be excluded from most of our queries moving forward as an Implemented idea. :) I don't want your request to be lost!

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  • Liz K commented
    28 Oct 18:23

    Could the 'View as any student' task be added to Platform Manager role and not limited to System Admin role?

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    Jessi Walters commented
    28 Oct 18:19

    Yes, there is a link to our Help Docs in the feature announcement in Core. This page is a great place to start: https://webfiles-sc1.blackbaud.com/files/support/helpfiles/education/k12/full-help/content/bb-core-view-as-security.html
    I'm also hosting a webinar to help with setup and implementation in early December; the webinar registration link will be published in a Core alert banner (among other places) the week before :)

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  • Michele Riebhoff commented
    28 Oct 15:19

    I see that this was marked as implemented. Will there be more information posted about what the new role is? My teachers will be excited!

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  • Ivan Siu commented
    June 03, 2024 17:00

    A lot of teachers want to be able to see what the student can access. Because of this, causing a lot of our teachers become a impersonator which end up granting them too much access. Need a new impersonator role that only can access specific group of user like Student.

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  • Stacy Jagodowski commented
    November 10, 2021 21:15

    Can you merge this with

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  • Morgan Kunze commented
    October 28, 2021 00:02

    Agree this would be incredibly helpful. Would need to restrict the ability to view some student info, such as official notes or messages that might be confidential.

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  • Guest commented
    November 06, 2020 22:51

    Yes please!

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  • Melissa Battis commented
    August 23, 2020 20:23

    Yes. It will help make sure that assignments and assessments present correctly and student's cant get into them too early. It will alleviate the major stresses of the unknown.

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  • Amy Cole commented
    August 04, 2020 19:55

    Yes please!

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  • Lou Boeschen commented
    July 13, 2020 18:18

    This would be super helpful when creating assessments and assignments, as those are the areas of the LMS that appear different for students. The bulletin board and topics view the same no matter which role (teacher or student).

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  • Tania Slaton commented
    July 08, 2020 18:15

    Yes! I need to see what my students see and our IT has to keep taking our sample student out of classes so that his grade doesn't mess things up

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