Role Overview
The Learner role allows a user to participate in course in a capacity commonly viewed as a student. This affords the user the ability to access course learning resources and participate in course learning activities, as well as the ability to view their own grades and feedback provided by course instructors.
Manually enrolling a Learner in a course
Those with the role of Site manager in the LMS or Editing Trainer within a course can assign users the role of Learner within the course.
Assigning Editing 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 Learner 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 Learner 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 Learner button in the Assign Roles dialog.
The Learner role will then appear in the Roles column for the user.