User Roles and Access rights in Moodle

The TELT Administrator role provides authorised faculty and school staff with elevated access to support course administration, manage the course lifecycle, and assist teaching staff.

In Moodle, TELT Administrators have course-level access equivalent to or higher than an Instructor, as well as access across courses within their assigned faculty or school. This includes the ability to view courses without being enrolled, access content hidden from students, and use administrative functions such as Switch role and Log in as.

TELT Administrators also use the Learning Management tab in MyUNSW to create courses and manage staff enrolments.

Requesting TELT Administrator access

Staff who require access can submit the UNSW TELT Administrator Role Request Form.

Removing TELT Administrator access

The TELT Administrator Removal Request app helps ensure staff access remains current and limited to the faculty or school content relevant to their responsibilities. Requests can be submitted by the staff member, their direct manager, an Associate Dean Education (ADE), or another approved faculty delegate.

Switch Role View

TELT Administrators can view courses within their category as a generic student/instructor would see them by using the 'switch role' functionality. This is particularly useful when helping Instructors to build a course to ensure it comes out as desired. Switch role is a very useful tool, but is not always a perfect representation of what students will see. Individual students may see something different due to their personal circumstances, and some tools (typically external tools) may not work well with switch role.

Log In As View

TELT Administrators can view their own courses as a specific student/instructor would see it by using the 'log-in-as' functionality. This is particularly useful when helping a student or instructor with a query. Due to a security vulnerability identified in April 2019, the Log-In-As view is no longer as reliable as it once was. For additional information, please visit our Log-in-as Reliability page.

Assign the Question Sharer role

TELT Administrators can assign the Question Sharer role to users. This role allows users to share questions on category level. Once they have Question Sharer role, staff members can access different categories when they go to the Question bank and click on Select a category dropdown.