Moodle

Checklist for Staff Changes

1. Add/Remove Non-LDAP User Accounts (Not staff or students)
2. Add/Change users in Cohorts
3. Add/Change Support Staff Contact Information
4. Add/Change Teacher's Course Category
5. Grant Teacher Course Creator rights for Category

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1. Adding User Accounts

• Accounts for staff and students are autocreated when they login
• Manual accounts (PAC) put in a helpdesk ticket with first and lastname and email address
• Manual account users will need to use an alternative link to login after Moodle 2.8

2. Add/Change users in Cohorts

• Site Administration > Users > Accounts > Cohorts > add/remove > (Person icon)
• NOTE: Staff should be added and removed from these lists. Linked to access to Staff Room pages and forced email notifications on certain forums.

3. Add/Change Support Staff Contact Information

• Edit in School Information page
• Right click to access table editing functions

4. Add/Change Teacher's Course Category

• Create Category for New Teacher
• Site Administration > Courses > add/edit courses > Courses/Teachers > Add a New Category
• Category Name* convention LASTNAME, Firstname (School dependent)
• Description (Holds Contact Information) "Edit Category” you will see this only as a guest.
• Copy another person's description
• Alpha sort Teacher Category - repetitive clicking on green arrow will allow multiple jumps.

5. Grant Teacher Course Creator rights for Category

• Site Administration > Courses > add/edit courses > Teachers / EXAMPLE, Teacher.
• Settings > Assign roles > Add teacher to Course Creator Role
• NOTE: Course creator rights means the teacher will give themselves TEACHER rights to any course they create in their category.