{"id":780,"date":"2020-07-18T10:31:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T09:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=780"},"modified":"2023-06-26T14:54:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:54:17","slug":"switch-role-to","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/article\/switch-role-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the &#8216;Switch role to&#8230;&#8217; feature in Moodle (if you are a Teacher)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Switching temporarily to another role<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The switch roles feature allows a user to switch temporarily to another role from the user menu &#8216;Switch role to&#8230;&#8217; so that they can see what the course would look like to someone with that role. This is a great feature for a tutor wanting to see what a course looks like from the student&#8217;s perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"278\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/dev-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/switch_roles.png\" alt=\"Switch roles - DLE\" class=\"wp-image-5742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/switch_roles.png 278w, https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/switch_roles-217x300.png 217w, https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/switch_roles-36x50.png 36w, https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/switch_roles-43x60.png 43w, https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/switch_roles-72x100.png 72w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Switching roles is not perfect because you remain the same user, and your user may not have features like grades, which will make some student views look different than a real student might see. To get an 100% accurate view, the best thing to do is create a test student account and enrol it in your course. It is useful to have this logged-in on another browser so you can quickly switch back and forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The switch roles feature in Moodle allows a user to switch temporarily to another role so they can see what the course would look like to someone else (e.g. a student).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[27],"ht-kb-tag":[258],"class_list":["post-780","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-moodle","ht_kb_tag-switch-role"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5743,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/780\/revisions\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}