The users tool
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This is the section where you can control who is registered on current course.
- If you are logged as professor of the course, you can add students (but it is easier for everybody to have them self-register otherwise you will need to inform them one by one of their username/password and there is a risk of double registration of the same person). You can also edit the user info item list.
- When this tool is visible for the students, it is there just to let them see who is also registered in the course. Each user can fill content link to user info items.
Users tool is tightly connected to Groups tool for obvious reasons (groups are users groups). However, you will be allowed to create empty groups if your students are not registered yet. This way, you can organise the structure of your course before the beginning of it.
In list mode, the page shows for each user (paged) lastname, firstname, e-mail, role and groups. When you click on the name of a user, the page shows lastname, firstname, email, role, groups of the current user.
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Add a user
- Click on Add a user.
- Fill personnal data with correct e-mail so that he/she receives username/password.
- Validate.
Note : Click on Search at the bottom of the form to find if a user is already registered on the platform.
Unregister a user
- Click on Unregister (
).
The student will remain in the campus main database, but he/she will not be associated with the course anymore.
You cannot modify student settings like name or password because it is up to them to know who they are and correct their own profile.
Insert a tutor in the course
To insert tutors in the course, the simplest is to ask the tutors to register as simple students and then click on Make Tutor beside their name. You can also register your tutors through Add a user, but it is risky as you don't know whether they are already registered on the system for other courses.
Being a tutor does not give admin rights on the website but allows to be member of more than one group (where student can be member of only one group at a time). This will proove usefull once you compose your groups, especially when you use Manual Editing of groups to associate tutors to groups.
Note : You can give Admin Rights to any user of your course, whether student or tutor. But TAKE CARE! as this gives him/her the same rights on the website as yours: to add, modify and delete all content, and even the website itself!
Users statistics
As a course manager, you can follow the statistics of each individual user
- Go to the course home page and enter the Users tool.
- You get to the list of all the users registered to your course.
- Click on the last name of a user.
- Click on the tracking icon
to access the user's statistics for your course.
Different statistics are displayed :
- Access to course and tools
- Results of the exercises done
- Learning Path
- Work uploads
- Documents
- Forum usage
Edit items of user info
The User info tool is a sub tool of Users. The course manager can edit a list of topics/item in order to ask the users some information :
- Click on your name in the users list.
- Click on Define Headings (on the right of the screen), and then on Add new heading to add a title and a content to the item.
As teacher you can edit :
- item quantity
- title of each item
- size of content edit box
- you own contents
As student you can fill the content of each item.
See the video tutorial about the users tool (http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/docs/videos/en/Users.htm).
