Assign roles

In your course's Administration block, click on Assign Roles:

Figure 1. Assign Roles Page in Administration

Faculty (who have a role of 'Teacher' in their courses) can use Assign roles to allow other users to access their course with the following roles:

• Teacher: Teachers have the most privileges within a course, including adding/editing activities and assigning grades. Can view student grades within the course.
• Secondary Teacher: This role is so that Teachers can add a co-teacher who, in turn, cannot add other teachers. Can view student grades within the course.
• Non-editing Teacher: Non-editing teachers can teach and grade students, but may not add/edit activities. Can view student grades within the course.
• Student: Students can access activities and resources within a course, and view only their own grades and feedback.
• Observer: To allow users to observe course activities, resources, and content, but not enter text or view grades.

Your role may vary among courses. You may be a Teacher in one, a Student in another, and a Non-editing Teacher in a third.

For example, to add a colleague as a Secondary Teacher to your course:

1. After clicking on Assign roles in the Administration block on your course homepage, click on Secondary Teacher.
2. Type her/his name in the 'Search' box and click the Search button.
3. Click on the desired name in the right window, then click the left-facing arrow to add the user to your course as a Secondary Teacher.

WARNING: Please DO NOT add/remove Students from your 'live' course sites. AsULearn is integrated with Banner, from which all registration information is generated, and through which all adds/drops are issued. Manually adding/removing students in 'live' courses with Assign Roles may create problems with your course site. If you would like to add an observer or faculty member who does not have an ASU account, contact Learning Technology Services.

Groups

Once your course is populated with students, you may want to create groups for use with forums or other activities:

Figure 2. Groups Page in Administration

1. The first step is to create the Group Name. Click on Create Group (#1 in Figure 2), and type in the desired group name and any description. There is no need for an enrollment key. You may elect to upload an image or icon for the group. Repeat the group creation process for each group you wish to add to your course.
   
   

   

2. Once you have created the groups, you add students to each group by clicking the desired group name (to highlight it), then clicking the Add/remove users button (#2 in Figure 2).
3. You will then see your current classlist in the Potential members window at the right, and an empty Existing members window at the left. Click on the desired student name/names (Ctrl-click allows you to select multiple names).



4. Click the left-facing arrow to add the selected students to the selected group.
   
   Repeat this process to populate all groups as desired. Note that students can be in more than one group.