Student Peer Tutor as class observer?

Question

Like many high schools, we have some students serving as "peer tutors" in academic classes. Our students all have Canvas student accounts and normally have single-sign-on via an Active Directory integration.

One teacher would like to have their student peer tutor able to function as a class observer in Canvas (or an observer of individual students they are tutoring). Is this possible? and if so, how?

mzimmerman · Accepted Answer

Hi @LindaBrock

There are instructions for an instructor to pair a student with an observer at https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-link-a-student-to-an-observer-in-a-course/ta-p/1254 .  I believe that the observer has to already be enrolled in the course with an observer role--I don't know if your school allows instructors to do that.