Role Overview
The Editing 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
- Add/remove/configure all course activities and resources
- View and add grades/feedback for course activities
- Configure the gradebook for the course
- Create and award course badges
- View course activity logs
- Add/remove/configure course blocks
- Add/remove/modify course enrollments
Manually enrolling an Editing Trainer in a course
Those with the role of Site manager in the LMS can assign users the role of Editing Trainer within courses. Following the below steps:
- 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 Editing 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 Editing 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 Editing Trainer button in the Assign Roles dialog.
The Editing Trainer role will then appear in the roles column for the user.