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User types and permissions: instructors

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Summary

Instructors are portal users who lead courses.

User types are available to all customers.

See User types and permissions: overview for a summary of all user types.

This article describes the permissions for the instructor user type.

Instructors hold the same permissions as learners, plus permissions to lead courses, mark assignments, mark attendance for Live Learning sessions, and run reports about course progress and results.

Instructors can only access learner data, like learner names and results for the courses, for courses they lead. They can’t browse other courses and view learners' enrollments or progress.

Instructors are further divided into:

Instructor permissions can expand to let instructors become course owners.

See: 

Users: create an instructor, and assign them to a course

Instructors

Instructors lead courses but do not create or edit course content. Instructors can by default:

View enrollments and mark a learner's enrollment as complete

Instructors can view the learners who are enrolled on a course they lead, and can manually change their status to Complete, Passed or Failed if required.

See:

Enrollments: set a learner's course as complete

Reset the number of exam attempts for learners

Instructors can reset exam attempts for learners who are assigned to them.

See:

Exams: reset a learner's exam attempts

Run reports for the courses they lead

Instructors can set up and run reports on the courses they lead.

See:

Run your first basic report in LearnUpon

Reports: setting filters on basic reports

Reports: overview and setup

Mark attendance for Live Learning sessions

Instructors who lead an Live Learning session can mark attendance for the session. 

See:

Live Learning: record attendance for sessions

Course owners

Course owners create and edit course content, as well as lead courses. Course owner permissions let them:

See Users: create an instructor, and assign them to a course about optional permissions for instructors, so they can own course content.

Create courses

Learn about creating great courses, and managing course content effectively in LearnUpon. Find the tips and best practice advice all in one place.

See:

Courses: make your content work for you

Edit course settings, aka Info tab settings

Including

  • apply credits and certificates to courses - requires an admin to create credits and certificates for the portal
  • change course pricing and catalog options
  • view course details, like the modules included, course reviews and course questions
  • update course-level options such as valid periods, due dates, instructor messaging

See:

Course settings overview: details, learner access and messaging options

Set up course certificates

Courses: Additional Settings to manage learners' access to a course

Manage course due dates and valid periods

Course notifications: set automated messages for course events

Create and manage training in Live Learning

Including

  • create new training in Live Learning
  • add training from Live Learning to a course
  • modify the details of training they own

See:

Live Learning: create and edit an ILT module

Live Learning: add an ILT module to a course

Create and manage sessions in Live Learning

Including

  • create and edit new Live Learning sessions
  • mark attendance for sessions
  • register learners to a session they lead

See:

Live Learning: create and edit sessions

Live Learning: record attendance for sessions

Live Learning: register learners directly to sessions, and to sessions in the past

Receive learner assignments and messages by default

By default, the course owner - the person who creates the course in LearnUpon - is the first course instructor. The course owner receives all learners' messages and assignments.

Admins can assign 1 or more learners to another instructor.

When learners are assigned to an instructor, their instructor:

  • receives the learners' messages, using the Message the Instructor feature on a course
  • receives the learners' assignments

When you assign learners to an instructor, those learners are visible only to the course owner and their assigned instructor. Additional instructors can no longer view the learners.

Tip: If you do not assign instructors to individual learners during your course setup, learners can choose an instructor when submitting assignments.

See:

Courses: Additional Settings to manage learners' access to a course

See:

User types and permissions: overview

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