Keywords: enrolment, category, department, undergraduate, postgraduate, access, editor, edit, editing
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If no-one in your department has category level editing access, you will need to follow the steps below:
Read-only role: Written(email) confirmation from the Head of Department will need to be sent to Digital Education (digi-ed@ucl.ac.uk) to request access for particular staff.
Editing roles: In order for any UCL member of staff to gain category level editing rights in Moodle, in addition to a confirmation email from the Head of Department as above, requesting staff will need to complete the Administering your Moodle Course training before category level access can be granted.
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If you do not know who has category level course administrator access for your department's Moodle courses, go to one of your Moodle courses and follow these steps:
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Further guidance on Category enrolments is available from moodledocs. If you find any inaccurate or missing information you can even update this yourself (it's a communal wiki). If you have a specific question about the tool please contact the Digital Education team. |
Caution
Note that if you are enrolled at category level you may need to search for a course and enrol yourself on it for it to show in your Course Overview when you log in.
Enrolling someone with a course administrator role means they will receive email alerts every time someone posts to an announcements forum that is set to 'force subscribe' (the default setting). They can disable all their alerts, but this means if that person is actually teaching or supporting a few of these Moodle courses, they will miss important information. A better option is to enrol them at category level with the 'no-email' role to stop discussion forum emails from all courses, and then enrol the staff member as the standard course administrator on the courses they are actively teaching / supporting to ensure they still receive these communications.
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