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Teacher role

Teachers can do almost anything within a course, including adding or changing the activities and grading students. By default, teachers can also assign a Non-editing teacher role and a Student role to other users. (To allow teachers to enrol other teachers, see Assign roles

By default users are not assigned the role of Teacher throughout the site, but are only assigned (enrolled) as a teacher to a single course/class at a time. The same applies to students. Teachers can only teach in the courses they have been enrolled in. (If you really need your teacher to access all courses, see #13 of Roles FAQ

Enrolling a user as a teacher in a course

As a manager or administrator, go to Administration > Course administration > Users > Enrolled users
Click the 'Enrol users' button at the top right or bottom left of the page
From the 'Assign roles' dropdown choose the teacher role
Select enrolment options as appropriate
Browse or search for the user
Click the Enrol button opposite the user. The user will indent in the list and the enrol button will disappear, indicating that the user is enrolled.
When you have finished, click the 'Finish enrolling users' button (or simply close the enrol users box)

The user will then appear in the list of enrolled users and will no longer be available in the search list.

For more information on manually enrolling teachers, see Manual enrolment

Changing Teacher Permissions

Note: if you need to modify the Teacher role significantly, it is advisable to create a new role rather than editing the default teacher role. See Creating custom roles

If you really need to change the default Teacher role, go to Administration>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles. In the right pane you will see Manage Roles with a list of user roles. To the right of the teacher description, click on the edit icon.

From the Editing role 'Teacher' page you can change what a teacher can or cannot do by checking or unchecking the Allow check-boxes under Capability/Permission. Be careful what you allow a teacher to do here. Consider the security vulnerabilities of giving a teacher an inappropriate permission. Only give the teacher permissions that are necessary or appropriate. To the right of many of the Allow check boxes are colored triangles the notify you of possible security warnings for each choice. Use those warnings to help you decide which permissions you will or won't give to your teachers.

Enrolling teachers category or site-wide

Under some conditions (such as for homeschool parents) you may want to assign a user the role of teacher within a category or for your whole site, instead of manually enrolling them into every course. Only modify the default Teacher role if you are certain you need to. It is preferable to create a new role and assign it to the category or site context. To understand the idea of roles in category and sites contexts, see Assign roles and to assign a teacher to a category, see Category enrolments.

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-==Teacher overview==
+{{Standard roles}}
-'''Teacher''' is one of the core user [[Assign roles|roles]] in Moodle. The others include [[Administrator]], [[Student]] and [[Guest access|Guest]]. These roles have privileges and control what you can and can't do within particular areas of a Moodle.  In short, an ''Administrator'' can do almost anything and go anywhere, a ''Teacher'' has control over a specifc course within a Moodle and the experience of their learners, and a ''Student'' participates in a course.
+==Teacher role==
-The term 'Teacher' can be changed to something else in the course settings or in the site settings.   For example 'Tutor', 'Facilitator', 'Professor' or 'Instructor' might be more appropriate.  The default term is Teacher and is generally used throughout Moodle documentation.
+Teachers can do almost anything within a course, including adding or changing the activities and grading students. By default, teachers can also assign a [[Non-editing teacher role]] and a [[Student role]] to other users. (To allow teachers to enrol other teachers, see [[Assign roles]]
-A participant/user is assigned the 'Teacher' role in a specific [[Course| course]]. Being a 'Teacher' in one course does not give you any special privileges in another. For example, you must be specifically added to a course as a 'Teacher', or a 'Student', or be allowed in as a guest to have any access at all.
+By default users are not assigned the role of Teacher throughout the site, but are only assigned (enrolled) as a teacher to a single course/class at a time. The same applies to students. Teachers can only teach in the courses they have been enrolled in. (If you really need your teacher to access all courses, see #13 of [[Roles FAQ]]
-==Course creator==
+==Enrolling a user as a teacher in a course==
-In later versions of Moodle, the role of teacher has been further defined.  There is now a role called "[[Course creator]]". This role can create a course, assign Teachers, plus have all the privileges of a Teacher.
-==Non-editing teacher==
+# As a manager or administrator, go to ''Administration > Course administration > Users > Enrolled users''
-There is "non editing teacher" role that would be suitable for a student mentor or course adjuncts.
+# Click the 'Enrol users' button at the top right or bottom left of the page
+# From  the 'Assign roles' dropdown choose the teacher role
+# Select enrolment options as appropriate
+# Browse or search for the user
+# Click the Enrol button opposite the user. The user will indent in the list and the enrol button will disappear, indicating that the user is enrolled.
+# When you have finished, click the 'Finish enrolling users' button (or simply close the enrol users box)
+The user will then appear in the list of enrolled users and will no longer be available in the search list.
+For more information on manually enrolling teachers, see [[Manual enrolment]]
+==Changing Teacher Permissions==
+''Note: if you need to modify the Teacher role significantly, it is advisable to create a new role rather than editing the default teacher role. See [[Creating custom roles]]
+''
+If you really need to change the default Teacher role,  go to ''Administration>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles.'' In the right pane you will see Manage Roles with a list of user roles. To the right of the teacher description, click on the edit icon.
+From the Editing role 'Teacher' page you can change what a teacher can or cannot do by checking or unchecking the Allow check-boxes under Capability/Permission. Be careful what you allow a teacher to do here. Consider the security vulnerabilities of giving a teacher an inappropriate permission. Only give the teacher permissions that are necessary or appropriate. To the right of many of the Allow check boxes are colored triangles the notify you of possible security warnings for each choice. Use those warnings to help you decide which permissions you will or won't give to your teachers.
+==Enrolling teachers category or site-wide==
+Under some conditions (such as for homeschool parents) you may want to assign a user the role of teacher within a category or for  your whole site, instead of manually enrolling them into every course. Only modify the default Teacher role if you are certain you need to. It is preferable to create a new role and assign it to the category or site context. To understand the idea of roles in  category and sites contexts, see [[Assign roles]] and to assign a teacher to a category, see [[Category enrolments]].
 == See also ==
-* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=43024 Why "teacher" discussion]
+* For more information about why we use the label of "Teacher" see the [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=43024 Why "teacher" discussion]
-[[Category: Roles]]
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 [[zh:教师]]
 [[de:Trainer-Rolle]]
+[[es:Rol de profesor]]

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