Assigning teaching staff

If you are teaching on your own in your own Moodle, you won't have to worry about working with fellow colleagues. Each member of staff in Moodle will usually fall into one of the following categories:

It depends on the management structure in your school or college but, in my experience, the approach that has worked best is to have a head of department/faculty leader/team leader/Moodle champion, delete as appropriate, as the Moodle manager in their Moodle category. They then create courses for their teaching staff. If you are a Course creator then it doesn't need me to tell you not to simply drop a Moodle course onto one of your unsuspecting colleagues without discussing it with them first. I've known this happen and it caused nothing but a great deal of animosity and a fair amount of anti-Moodle feeling.

Let's take an example. For the rest of this book we will look at converting the Backyard Ballistics course to Moodle. However, there are other courses in the physics syllabus that need converting, including "Jet in a Jam Jar". As a course creator, you can create a course, and then assign it to another teacher who can "develop" the course from then on.

I am going to create a new course and then assign it to Mr. Wild as the editing teacher.