I'll take a stab at explaining it as I understand it.
The Student role is defined at the site level. *However* you won't be assigning anyone that role at the site level. You will assign it to them for a specific course. Then they will have those permissions just for that course.
Does that help?
Kevin Audleman
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Inherited Permissions
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