Top Hat - Canvas Course Based Roles Mapping

Top Hat will now assign roles in your course depending on what your course role is set to in Canvas. This document lists the mapping for each of these roles between Top Hat and Canvas.

Top Hat is rolling out a new Course Based Roles integration with Canvas that will automatically use assigned roles in Canvas to determine which role that person should have in Top Hat. This new functionality means it will no longer matter if you have an instructor or student account in Top Hat, your access in Top Hat will be determined by your role in Canvas.

Here is a table showing how each Canvas role in the UW-Madison instance of Canvas maps to roles in Top Hat. For a reminder of all the roles in Canvas here at UW-Madison, see Canvas - Course Roles and Permissions [UW-Madison]. Only roles that have been tested and verified in their mapping appear below.

Canvas-Top Hat Roles Mapping

Canvas Role

Top Hat Role

Principal Instructor

Professor

Auxiliary Instructor

Professor

Supervisory Instructor

TA

Guest Instructor

TA

Course Coordinator

Professor

Instructional Designer

Professor

Librarian

Professor

Designer

TA

Observer

Student

Student

Student

Grader

TA

TA

TA



Keywords:
syncing assign import roles accounts student teacher participation 
Doc ID:
161933
Owned by:
Learn@UW Madison in Learn@UW
Created:
2026-06-12
Updated:
2026-06-12
Sites:
DoIT Help Desk, Learn@UW