Managing Course Roles
Assigning and managing course roles
About course roles
Course roles are a set of permissions assigned to users within a course that allow them to carry out tasks within that course. Users can have different course roles in each of the courses they are assigned to.
User roles can be used to assign different permissions to users across the entire BetterExaminations platform.
Course Roles can only be managed by Users who have "Manage organisation settings" enabled.
To manage Course roles, go to Settings.
The course roles section lists the existing roles and gives you the option to manage each role.
Create a new course role
To create a new course role, select +Create course role to display the Edit role window, where you can name your course role:
Manage an existing User Role
To manage an existing role, select the course role name or the manage button to show the edit role window.
Course role permissions
| Permission | Description/Notes | Area of application | Dependencies |
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Modify course settings |
This permission gives users access to some specific settings within a course. This permission can be combined with other course-level permissions to give the user a slighter higher level of access (Like a course administrator, for example) With this permission, access is given to
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N/A |
| Manage question and rubric banks |
Provides access to the question bank and rubrics inside a course. |
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N/A |
| View exams | Provides the permission to view existing exams and exam sittings. They can see exam content but not edit it. They can also click into and see some information for exam sittings |
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N/A |
| Create new exams | Provides the permission to create new exams and edit them before an exam sitting has been scheduled User can send exams for approval |
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Requires
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Modify scheduled exams |
Provides the permission to continue to modify exams after an exam sitting has been scheduled. |
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Requires
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| Modify exam options | Provides permission to modify exam options in the exam options tab. This includes things like enabling blind marking or question-level feedback. |
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Requires
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| Schedule exam sittings | Provides the permission to schedule sittings of approved exams |
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Requires
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Approve/Reject exams |
Provides the permission to approve an exam that has been sent for approval Note: Explicit rejection of exams is not available at this moment. |
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Requires
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View exam results |
Provides access to the submissions list to view the results of exams and export those results as CSV |
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Requires
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Mark exams |
Provides the permission to mark exams and provide feedback to students. |
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Requires
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Review exam integrity |
This gives the user access to two primary things
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Requires
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Release exam results to Students |
Provides the permission to release results to students |
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Requires
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Assigning course roles to users
Course roles are assigned to users on a course-by course basis. To assign a course role to a user on a course:
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Navigate to the course
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Select Users from the sub-navigation menu
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Toggle Modify users
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Find the user you want to assign the role to and select the role in the dropdown
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Save
