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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Moodle Course Conversion
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Assigning Teaching Staff


If you are teaching on your own, in your own Moodle, you won't have to worry about working with fellow colleagues. To recap, each member of staff in Moodle will usually fall into one of the following categories:

  • Administrator—Has complete, God-like powers over the Moodle installation. Can do, literally, anything. But if you ask him or her to, he or she probably won't.

  • Course Creator—Can create new courses, and edit them. If you were able to create a course by following the instructions in this chapter, then you probably have this role (unless you are an administrator).

  • Teacher—Can edit and work with existing courses, but cannot create new ones. This role can add new resources and activities, change topics and settings.

  • Non-editing teacher—Can grade work and teach, but can't edit courses. This role will only become relevant when we get to interactive course content in later chapters.

It depends on the management structure in your school or college but, in my experience...