Role Overview
The Trainer role is commonly assigned at the course level, providing a user the means of performing actions commonly associated with a traditional trainer. The Trainer role offers the following general capabilities within a course:
- Enter and view the course
- View course activities
- Participate in forum activities
- View and add grades/feedback for course activities
- View the gradebook for the course
- Award course badges
- View course activity logs
- View course blocks
Manually enrolling a Trainer in a course
Those with the role of Site manager in the LMS can assign users the role of Trainer within courses. In addition, a user with the role of Editing Trainer in a course can assign the Trainer role to other users in the same course context.
Assigning Trainer Role During a New Course Enrollment
- Go to Course administration > Users > Enrolled users.
- Click the Enrol users button at the top right of the page.
- From the Assign roles dropdown choose the Trainer 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.
The user will then appear in the list of enrolled users and will no longer be available in the search list.
Assigning Trainer Role for an Existing Enrollment
- Go to Course administration > Users > Enrolled users.
- Locate the user who should be assigned the role and select their associated Assign roles (
) action icon in the Roles column of the table.
- Select the Trainer button in the Assign Roles dialog.
The Trainer role will then appear in the Roles column for the user.