Can Observers see the student's full assignment submissions?

[EvanDonovan]

Can Observers see the student's full assignment submissions? We need them to not be able to do this.

If they can, is there a way to define a similar role that doesn't have this permission?

We looked at the Observer Visibility and Participation document

However, it was not clear from there.

[ProfessorBeyrer · Accepted solution]

That's an interesting question, @EvanDonovan. I looked through the user permissions for the Observer role and don't see the ability to view their student's submissions listed. Given the intent of the Observer role (as explained in the page What is the Observer role? ), this makes sense to me. If you're interested in setting up a situation where Observers can view their students' participation in discussions, see the content, etc. but not see what their students submit to assignments, you might be able to do that using some tool outside of Canvas to collect those submissions. I can imagine using a Google Form for this purpose.

I'm going to mark this reply as a solution but there can be more than one. Hopefully our colleagues in the Community can share others.

[EvanDonovan]

I tested and Observers are able to see full discussions even when observing nobody. I am not sure about assignment submissions. I couldn't get that to work properly in testing, even using the "act as" feature, since I would click into an assignment and it said I wasn't observing anyone, even if I was.