Hi @julie3 and @EnliteCollege1,

As a final update to this thread...  It seems like some of our friends running the Free for teacher Canvas instance tracked down the Participant role in a certain subaccount.  It sounds like the role was never meant to be available to so many FFT courses, and has now been removed from being available in any new courses.  Any courses that already have the role available will keep it.  We were also informed that the Participant role can just view announcements and view/post to discussions, and that's it, so it's probably not something that would be very useful in many courses.

Hope this clears up any confusion around this topic!

-Chris