Time for action – creating a new account and assigning the role to it
Now that we have created the role, we are going to assign it to a parent user through the parent's child's profile page. First, however, let's quickly create a new user account for the parent so we have a user account that is not already assigned as a teacher or student in other courses. Follow these steps:
From the front page of your course, click on the Users link found in the Site Administration block. Then click on the Accounts link and finally the Add a new user link. Fill in information for the fields labeled with red text and an asterisk, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the Update profile button to create the new user. We are going to assign the Parental Role to student 5 and thus opted to name the parent
Parent5. An example of our parent account is shown in the following screenshot.
Once the new parent account has been created, navigate to the front page of your site and click on the Users link found...