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Adding Course Editors and Graders
Teaching Assistants can be added with the roles of Course Editors and/or Grader depending upon the capabilities you would like them to have in Moodle. 
Note: If you wish to add an assistant or guest users to a metacourse(which has the “-All" designation on the course number), you must add them to the individual course sections rather than the metacourse. 

Course Editor 

  • Can create, edit, and delete course content
  • Cannot view student work or grades
  • In Moodle they will have access privileges for administrative duties (such as Editing, Deleting, taking attendance or uploading materials). Provided permission by the course instructor. Does not add user to the Moodle gradebook for the course.

Grader 

  • Can be stacked on top of Course Editor Access (or any other designation). 
  • View student work and assign grades
  • In Moodle they will have Access Privileges for grading student work. Provided permission by the course instructor. Does not add user to the Moodle gradebook for the course.
     

1) Open the course in Moodle.
2) Select the “Participants” link beneath the course header. 

Add Users in Moodle Settings
3) Select Enroll Users.

Moodle 4 Add Users Settings

4) Search for the specific user you’d like to edit the role for.  

5) Add the Course Editor or Grader Roll from the Assign Role drop down menu.  Select Enroll User. 

Add Users in Moodle 4 Settings

 

1)Find the specific users you’d like to edit the role for. Select the pencil icon in the “Roles” column for that specific user.  The Pencil will appear next to their currently awarded role.

2) In editing mode, select the drop down arrow to reveal the possible roles that can be assigned.  Select the role and it will appear above the search bar.  

3) Save the change by selecting the save icon.  The edit will now be saved.

4) You'll now see that user(s) you added will be enrolled with the role that you selected. 

Edit Users in Moodle Settings

Remove a user's manual enrollment. 

If a use was manually enrolled into a course, they can be unenrolled. 

Select the "Participants" link beneath the course header. 

Find the specific user you'd like to manually unenroll.  In the status column, select the trash can icon. 

Uneroll User Settings Moodle 4

Note: If you do not see a trashcan icon, the user was not manually enrolled.  This typical of students who registered for the course in Workday.  Students need to to drop the course in Workday in order to automatically be unenrolled from a course. 

In the popout window, select "Unenroll" to confirm the manual un-enrollment.  The user will then be unenrolled from the course. 

Unernoll User Settings in Moodle 4

Moodle requires that all users log in with an active Brandeis University Account. 

  • Persons with newly created Brandeis accounts (including new faculty members) should log into Moodle to provision their accounts, IF it has been less than 24 hours since their account was first created by ITS. Then they will be able to be enrolled into any course shell.

  • Students who have graduated or are otherwise considered inactive students (medical leave, transfer from Brandeis etc.) lose access to Moodle. Note: Alumni who would like to audit a course need to reach out to registrar@brandeis.edu for further investigation.

  • Departmental Administrators or other departmental staff need to email help@brandeis.edu with the list of courses that they need access to. It is possible to add enrollments at the Category level, to facilitate continuity of service and support. ITS staff do not manually enroll users into course shells.

  • Co-instructors must be added by the Registrar's Office in Workday (registrar@brandeis.edu). Once this is complete, they will be enrolled into the course shell in Moodle within a few hours.

  • The highest role that instructors and academic administrators can award is the Course Editor and Grader role. If you are looking to have someone enrolled in a level higher than Course Editor and Grader, please email help@brandeis.edu to determine if there's another way to provide access. Only the Registrar's office is authorized to add an instructor to a course (Moodle will inherit the enrollments found in Workday).

  • Users with the "Student" role are students who have registered for the course through Workday. These students cannot be manually unenrolled from a course shell. Instead, the student should drop the course in Workday in order to automatically be unenrolled from the course.

Upload Your Syllabus

This feature in Moodle allows all Brandeis students to browse uploaded syllabi associated with participating Brandeis courses.  The instructor of the course decides whether to make the syllabus available to the Brandeis community. 

Instructors also have the additional option of making a course syllabus public via the Brandeis Registrar’s Schedule of Classes interface. 

If you want to share your syllabus only with the students registered in the class, follow these instructions to upload and share a file with the class.
 

Sharing Your Syllabus with the Brandeis Community

  1. Select the course you are teaching from the Moodle Dashboard.

  2. Select the Upload Course Syllabus link from the Moodle Course Tools block.

  3. Select the Choose File button on the left-hand side.  Browse for your file on your computer, and select Open to select the appropriate file. 

  4. Select the Upload button to upload the syllabus for browsing. 

Course Tools Block Moodle 4

 

Upload Course Syllabus Settings

Sharing Your Syllabus Publicly Through the Registrar’s Schedule of Classes

  1. If you have yet to do so, first follow the instructions for sharing your syllabus with the Brandeis community(directions above). 
  2. The Make Course Syllabus Public link will now appear in the LATTE Course Tools block of your course shell. Click on the Make Course Syllabus Public link.  The Course syllabus will then be available for download via the Brandeis Registrar’s Schedule of Classes interface. 

After you make a syllabus public, the Make Course Syllabus Private link will appear.

If, at any time, you want to remove the public link on the Registrar’s Schedule of Classes, you can click on the “Make Course Syllabus Private” link. 

Make Course Syllabus Public and Private Settings 

Updating Your Syllabus

You can update your uploaded syllabus by taking the following steps:

  • If the old syllabus is public- first make the old syllabus private with the Make Course Syllabus Private link.
  • Upload the new syllabus with the Upload Course Syllabus link.
  • If you wish to make the new syllabus public, click the Make Course Syllabus Public link.

Browsing Brandeis Syllabi

If you want to see all currently uploaded syllabi, click on the Browse Course Syllabi link in the Course Tools block in your Moodle course.
 

Delete/Remove Uploaded Syllabi

Once a syllabus has been uploaded it cannot be removed, but it can be replaced with a revised syllabus. If a revised syllabus is not yet prepared, a blank file can be uploaded temporarily.