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
- Navigate to the DLE course page on which you wish to add a Teacher.
- When you are on that page select participants in the secondary menu.
- When you are on the participant page select the blue button that says ‘Enrol users’ near the top left of the page.
- Start typing the name in the search box and select the correct user (you can repeat this to add multiple people).
- 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
- 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.
