I'm just now setting up my first course (good work on the system guys and gals!). What I want is for each student to have a specific mentor/teacher for a specific course. This person will then be able to grade the student's narrative responses and give feedback but wouldn't have access to all students of that course, just the students that he or she is mentoring. The role is like a student-limited non-editing teacher.
First question - I don't think it can handle that without me doing some coding...?
The rest of my site could register and enroll students through direct database access, associate mentors and allow mentors to grade narrative questions (without allowing them any teacher access to Moodle itself). I wonder if it would be best for me to just code that entirely outside of the Moodle code? Would I be in danger of wrecking caches and data integrity if the wider site interferes with the moodle database on that level?
thanks!
Paul