You can assign the roles described below to any user enrolled on your Moodle course.
Remember, you can only assign a role to a user if they have a Moodle account (see Enrol a User in a Course).
A teacher in a Bilkent Moodle course can assign the following roles:
- Teacher – a co-teacher can do anything you can do;
- TA (non-editing teacher) – a TA who cannot grade assignments for groups they are in but not create or change activities;
- TA (editing teacher) – a TA who can do anything a teacher can do except assign roles;
- Auditing Student – a student who can submit to activities but does not appear in the gradebook;
- Department – for monitoring – can see everything a teacher can see except student submissions but cannot change anything;
- Grader – same as “TA (non-editing teacher)” but intended for external graders;
- Tutor – same as an “Auditing Student” but cannot submit to activities;
To change the Moodle role of an enrolled user, do the following:
- Go to the Moodle course on which the user is enrolled via STARS (this will be an individual “section” course, e.g., POLS 547-2).
N.b., You cannot change a user’s role directly in a combined course (e.g. “POLS 547 (All Sections)”). This is because these courses inherit user roles from the individual section courses they combine (e.g., “POLS 547-2“). You must therefore change the user’s role in the section Moodle course(s) on which the user is enrolled via STARS (in this case, “POLS 547-2“), even if you are not using it / have hidden it.
- Click “Participants” on the left hand menu;
- Filter the list of enrolled participants, or navigate to the participant whose role you want to change;
- To assign a role, click the pencil icon in the “role” column:
- Either type the role name in the search box or click the down arrow for a list of roles to choose from. Available roles are student, teacher, and non-editing teacher.
- When a role is selected, an icon will appear above the search box.
- To remove the participant’s old role, press the “x” on the role icon.
- REMEMBER! You must click the disk icon to save the new role assignment.
