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Adding a teacher, faculty support or external examiner to your course in Moodle

Overview

By default, when a course is created by TIS, the requester will be enrolled as a Teacher. They can then delegate access to others as required. Please see The roles section below for more detail on the role types.

Adding a member of staff

  1. Navigate to the DLE course page on which you wish to add a Teacher.  
  2. When you are on that page select participants in the secondary menu.
The participant tab in the secondary menu
The participants button is on the top left of the screen.
  1. When you are on the participant page select the blue button that says ‘Enrol users’ near the top left of the page.
A screenshot showing the enroll users button
The Enrol users button is on the top left of the screen.
  1. Start typing the name in the search box and select the correct user (you can repeat this to add multiple people).
The enrolments options box
Enrolment options
  1. Assign the permissions by selecting the relevant role in the box. There are 4 roles available, they are:
    • Teacher
    • External Examiner
    • Non-editing teacher
    • Forum Moderator
Assign role
4 roles are available.
  1. Click the Enrol users button.

The roles

Teacher

Teachers can do almost anything within a course, including adding or changing the activities and grading students. By default, Teachers can also assign a Non-editing Teacher role and a Student role to other users.

By default users are not assigned the role of Teacher throughout the site, but are only assigned (enrolled) as a Teacher to a single course/class at a time. The same applies to students. Teachers can only teach in the courses they have been enrolled in.

External examiner

External Examiner is based on a Non-editing teacher role (as below), but with an additional permission that means they can see the module box block on any Moodle course they are added to (the standard Non-editing teacher role can’t do this).

Non-editing teacher

A Non-editing teacher is able within a course to view and grade students’ work, but may not alter or delete any of the activities or resources. This role might typically be given to a classroom assistant for example.

Forum moderator

Forum moderators have elevated permissions just within a forum. They can delete/approve posts, which students are unable to do, so this is sometimes a role given to students as it doesn’t allow any extra permissions within the Moodle site as a whole, but lets them do more in a forum activity.

Adding students

Students are automatically enrolled onto courses from UNIT-e.

If an student enrolment is missing or incorrect this needs to be corrected in UNIT-e, please contact your faculty office to ensure UNIT-e is up to date.

Updated on June 21, 2023
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